{"id":145434,"url":"https://alion.io/job/antimetal-research-engineer-2","title":"Research Engineer","company":{"id":3680,"name":"Antimetal","domain":"antimetal.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/antimetal","size_band":"11-50","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Ashby","truth_index":null},"role":"AI/ML","role_family":"AI/ML","seniority":"middle","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["New York, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":200000,"max":400000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":400000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":4,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":true,"technologies":[{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"Fine-tuning","optional":false},{"name":"Interpretability","optional":false},{"name":"LLM","optional":false},{"name":"Multimodal AI","optional":false},{"name":"NLP","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Reinforcement Learning","optional":false},{"name":"Synthetic Data","optional":false},{"name":"Time Series Forecasting","optional":false},{"name":"TypeScript","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-07-28T22:03:42Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-07-28","last_verified_at":"2026-10-17T10:19:16Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":80,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":80},"description":"We’re looking for a Research Engineer to build the intelligent systems that power Antimetal. You’ll prototype new approaches, run experiments, and own the path from research to production. You’ll work closely with platform and product to shape agent capabilities and contribute to evaluation methodology.\nInfrastructure, and its corresponding observability, is a hard domain to model. Telemetry is high-volume, noisy, and ephemeral. Ground truth is approximate. We’re building AI agents that understand this complexity and can reason about what’s happening, why, and how to fix it, including making changes to code and configuration.\nResearch Areas\nInfrastructure Intelligence: Models that help us understand what’s happening in infrastructure and why. Detecting anomalies, forecasting issues, analyzing telemetry across logs, metrics, events, and traces, understanding causality, and connecting runtime behavior back to code. These capabilities form the foundation our agents use to reason about infrastructure.\nAutonomous Agents: Long-running, parallel agents that detect, diagnose, and remediate infrastructure issues, including fixing code and configuration. Advancing multi-step reasoning, orchestration, context management, memory, and reinforcement learning.\nEvaluation: Making sure agents work well and informing how we improve. Partnering with platform to build evaluation methodology, generate synthetic data, analyze historical incidents, and model the domain.\nAbout Antimetal\nAntimetal is building the future of infrastructure management. We're starting by creating a platform that investigates, resolves, and prevents issues-giving engineers their time back to focus on what they do best: building great products.\nWhat You’ll Do:\nExperiment, Evaluate, Iterate, Ship: Run experiments across our research areas, analyze results, validate what works, and take successful approaches to production.\n\nBuild Evaluation Infrastructure: Partner with platform on live and offline evaluation pipelines, benchmarks, and synthetic data generation. Build the tooling that lets the team measure progress and iterate with confidence.\n\nExplore Research Directions: Apply and develop techniques from best-in-class AI Agents, ML, and SRE research to our problem domain. Experiment with new approaches to reasoning, retrieval, codebase mapping, and agent architectures.\n\nCollaborate Across Teams: Work with platform and product to integrate capabilities and productionize prototypes into scalable and reliable services.\n\nWhat you bring:\n4+ years of experience in applied ML, research engineering, preferably at a company shipping production AI systems\n\nProduction experience contributing to agentic/LLM systems, including multi-step reasoning, reinforcement learning, fine-tuning, and orchestration.\n\nProven experience bringing work from prototype to production, using data and experimentation to drive product and architectural decisions\n\nStrong on ML fundamentals: statistical modeling, probabilistic methods, time-series analysis, evaluation methodology.\n\nReal world expertise in one area of applied ML: search, statistical modeling, NLP, etc.\n\nExperience constructing and running end-to-end evaluation pipelines with real world data.\n\nProficient in Python and Typescript, with experience using common ML libraries and data engineering tools.\n\nStrong problem-solving skills, with a focus on creating highly maintainable, scalable code.\n\nComfortable with ambiguity and iterative development, prototyping, and adapting quickly to feedback.\n\nBonus:\nExposure to interpretability, robustness, or AI safety research.\n\nExperience with multimodal models (text + images, logs, or other data types).\n\nTrack record of contributions to ML research (open-source repos, papers, workshops).\n\nStrong foundations in statistics, optimization, or experimental design.\n\nExperience deploying research models into production environments.\n\nWho you are:\nIdentify as a builder.\n\nAre excited to work in-person from our new and spacious office in New York.\n\nLove working in a startup environment (experience in a startup or obsession with going zero-to-one).\n\nEnjoy working with people who are ambitious, caring, and think in systems.\n\nThrive in a fast-paced iterative environment where experimentation is essential.\n\nWhat we bring:\nPay & ownership - Competitive salary with generous equity grants.\n\nFull coverage + retirement - Fully covered health, dental, and vision, plus retirement benefits.\n\nUnlimited PTO - Take the time you need to recharge.\n\nDinner on late nights - Working late? Dinner is on us.\n\nFitness stipend - Monthly support for your health and wellness.\n\nTools of the trade - Any equipment you need to do your best work.\n\nCommute perks - Citi Bike + train benefits.\n\nInterview process\nApplication Review - Send us your stuff, and a quick note on why you're excited.\n\nIntro Chat: Share what you're looking for next and learn more about what we're building.\n\nFounder Interview: Talk with one of our founders in more detail about the role\n\nTechnical Interview: We’ll have you complete a short exercise specific to the role.\n\nOnsite: Come onsite and meet the team through a series of 1:1 interviews.\n\nDecision - We’ll move fast.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5211,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":4,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity","Unlimited PTO"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["DevOps & Platform Engineering","AI Agents","Observability & APM"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-07-28T22:03:42Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":54,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.757,"p_room":0.72,"age_days":80,"expected_fill_days":189,"reasons":["conf:2","win:mid","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-10-17T05:46:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":400000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/antimetal-research-engineer-2","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/antimetal-research-engineer-2.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-17T12:18:46Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":16320,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-18T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":3680},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=3680"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fantimetal-research-engineer-2"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fantimetal-research-engineer-2"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fantimetal-research-engineer-2"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/antimetal-research-engineer-2\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fantimetal-research-engineer-2"}]}