AI Research Engineer
Skills
AI AgentsAgentic AI DevelopmentArtificial IntelligenceGenerative AILarge Language ModelsMachine LearningPrompt Engineering
What the job involves
The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.
Requirements
- 5+ years in software engineering with at least 1+ year applying GenAI in production
- Proven experience building or researching agent frameworks or tool-using LLMs
- Proven experience building or researching memory or retrieval systems such as RAG vector DBs or hybrid retrieval
- Expert Python developer
- Familiar with openclaw and Claude Code harness architecture
- Early-stage startup mindset with comfort in ambiguity and fast execution
Nice to have
- Startup mindset
- Ambiguity tolerance
- Deep curiosity
- Strong ownership
- Fast execution
Day to day
- Design and implement advanced multi-step reasoning agents with tool use planning reflection and self-improvement loops
- Develop multi-agent coordination and task decomposition frameworks that improve reliability latency and cost efficiency
- Architect memory systems with short-term long-term episodic semantic and retrieval-based subsystems while translating research into production-grade systems
