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Posted 26 Oct 2026

Senior Software Engineer - AI Engineer

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Posted
26 Oct 2026

About the role

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior AI R&D Engineer to focus on the cutting-edge field of agent orchestration. This role is responsible for designing, implementing, and deploying sophisticated systems that enable AI agents to execute complex, multi-step tasks autonomously. A deep, practical understanding of Large Language Models (LLMs) and the ability to rigorously evaluate agent system performance are non-negotiable. 

What You Will Do 

  • Agent Orchestration Development: Design and build advanced orchestration layers, including planning, memory management, tool-use logic, and iterative reasoning loops for autonomous agents.
  • Production Deployment: Lead the deployment of LLM-powered features and agent systems into production environments, ensuring scalability, latency targets, and reliability.
  • Mandatory Evaluation Mastery: Own the definition, implementation, and analysis of agent and LLM evaluation benchmarks (reference tests, heuristics, model-graded evaluation). This includes metrics for helpfulness, accuracy, hallucination, and safety.
  • Framework Implementation: Leverage and contribute to modern agentic frameworks (e.g., LangChain, AutoGen, CrewAI, custom internal frameworks) to build out capabilities.
  • Research to Production: Translate the latest advancements in LLM and agent research into robust, production-ready features, collaborating closely with research scientists.
  • A/B Testing: Design and execute rigorous A/B tests on prompts, system settings, and model versions, making data-driven recommendations for rollouts or rollbacks.
  • 4+ years of professional experience in machine learning engineering, NLP, or AI R&D.
  • Mastery of LLM/Agent Evaluation: Demonstrated expertise in setting up, running, and analyzing evaluation systems for LLMs and agentic workflows.
  • Production Experience (Mandatory): Extensive, hands-on experience putting LLMs and at least one major agentic framework (or equivalent custom architecture) into high-volume production.
  • Strong software engineering foundation, primarily in Python, with experience writing clean, maintainable, and efficient code.
  • Experience in the advanced mechanisms and libraries around python, pytorch, langchain, llama index, deepeval, scikit learn.
  • Deep understanding of LLM mechanisms (prompt engineering, fine-tuning, RAG, function/tool calling).
  • Experience with observability tools (logging, tracing, monitoring) for real-time model performance diagnostics.

Bonus Points 

  • Background in academic research (publications) related to AI, NLP, or reinforcement learning.
  • Experience optimizing inference pipelines for performance and cost.
  • Familiarity with safety and guardrail systems for generative AI.

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