Applied AI Engineer - Agent
The General Intelligence Company of New YorkAI Agents company
New York, United StatesSenior
Acrew Capital
Union Square Ventures
Compound
Scott Belsky
Yohei Nakajima
Agent Fund
Data & AI
About the role
TL;DR
Push the boundaries of our Cofounder agent by improving reliability and autonomy.
- •We're hiring an Applied AI Engineer to push the boundaries of our Cofounder agent.
- •You'll own core backend systems and applied LLM work: advancing agent reliability and autonomy, building evaluation pipelines, and shipping techniques that measurably improve agent performance.
- •Key Responsibilities Design and implement agent improvements end-to-end Build robust evaluation pipelines for the agent Productionize applied LLM techniques Improve core backend systems Partner with product and infra to define success metrics and ship fast, safe iterations Write clean, well-tested code; document design decisions and runbooks Requirements 4+ years backend engineering experience, preferably Python Hands-on LLM experience: prompt engineering, function-calling, retrieval, embeddings, evaluation design Track record building evaluation harnesses and using them to drive improvements Solid distributed systems fundamentals Pragmatic experimentation: hypothesis → prototype → measured improvement → rollout Excellent debugging and instrumentation skills
Required skills
PythonLLMsPostgreSQLRedisCeleryAirflowDatabricksKubernetesAWSGoogle CloudCI/CDDockerGitHub ActionsDatadog
Nice-to-have skills
RedisPostgreSQLCelery
Domain expertise
ai
Benefits & perks
Competitive salary, Equity, Comprehensive benefits, Flexible work setup
Tech stack
PythonLLMsPostgreSQLRedisCeleryAirflowDatabricksKubernetesAWSGoogle CloudCI/CDDockerGitHub ActionsDatadog