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You can explain the architectural decisions you made, what failed, and what you learned.\nEvaluation & Reliability: Real-world experience evaluating agent behavior and measuring system failures, including building evaluation harnesses, guardrails, grounding checks, human-in-the-loop controls, and other mechanisms that prevent or mitigate errors.\nCloud Technologies: Deep hands-on experience with either Azure or AWS and the AI and infrastructure services surrounding them, such as Azure OpenAI, AI Foundry, AI Search, AKS, Amazon Bedrock, Lambda, ECS, or EKS.\nSoftware Engineering: Strong proficiency in Python or Java, API design, containers, automated testing, source control, and CI/CD, with enough machine learning knowledge to determine when traditional ML or deterministic approaches are more appropriate than an LLM.\nEnterprise Delivery: Experience delivering software within large organizations and working through requirements such as role-based access, data isolation, security reviews, compliance, change control, and production governance.\nAgent Observability: Experience designing systems for traceability, state and memory management, model routing, latency and cost visibility, retries, idempotency, and other operational concerns associated with production agent systems.\nCommunication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to explain complex AI systems, architectural decisions, risks, and tradeoffs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.\n Problem-Solving: Strong technical judgment and a demonstrated willingness to challenge assumptions, including recognizing when an agentic solution introduces unnecessary complexity and a deterministic approach would be more appropriate.\nExperience with MCP and emerging tool-interoperability standards, evaluation frameworks such as RAGAS, fine-tuning, model distillation or optimization, and highly regulated industries such as financial services, insurance, healthcare, or manufacturing is helpful, but not required.\nWhat to expect\nWhen applying, please include a short note about yourself, a summary of your work experience, and a link to any public profiles you actively maintain (e.g., GitHub, LinkedIn). Our hiring process moves quickly and consists of several stages for candidates who capture our attention with their initial submission, sometimes including but not limited to a short preliminary phone interview, a series of video interviews, and a short take-home exercise, which you'll have up to a week to complete.\nCompensation is $130,000 - $165,000 per year\nAdditional information\nWe go out of our way to evaluate all employees and job applicants equitably based on merit, competence, and qualifications. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds and identities to apply, and we consider every applicant with an open mind. 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