Research Engineer

About the role

The role is crucial for scaling the product to meet customer demand and maintaining a reputation for exceptional user experience in the rapidly evolving AI agent space. The right person is passionate about improving agent behavior and can contribute to a product that is both powerful and a joy to use. The role is majority agent work with a baseline of full-stack engineering required.

Responsibilities

• Build high-taste agent products that pair powerful behavior with consumer-grade UX polish
• Design and ship agent capabilities from 0 to 1 inside a fast-scaling product surface
• Contribute across the full stack as needed, with the majority of work focused on agent infrastructure and product
• Translate customer feedback on agent behavior into concrete product iterations
• Help raise the bar on product taste and craft as the team grows past 19 people

Requirements

• Must-Have:
• 3-7 years of engineering experience
• Prior experience building and designing agents (Applied AI or agent engineering background), production work, not hackathon projects
• Solid product engineering capabilities, ships features end-to-end
• Strong customer-facing communication skills, comfortable explaining complex technical concepts, and building trust with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Comfortable with 0-1 product work and ambiguity
• Basic full-stack engineering ability
• Nice-to-Have:
• Prior evals, observability, or behavior-monitoring product experience (heavily preferred)
• TypeScript fluency
• Prior Series A or seed startup experience
• Strong design taste at consumer-grade product polish levels
• Front-end or design engineering range on top of agent work

Based in SF or willing to relocate, 5 days in office in FiDi