Senior Applied AI Research Engineer (Agentic Systems)

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Most agentic AI work optimizes against benchmarks that don't push back. Here, the agent's hypotheses get tested at the bench — its reasoning is answerable to real experimental results, not a leaderboard. We have a working system orchestrating 300+ tools; what we need is someone to keep it at the frontier. You'll read the latest in agentic research, decide what's real, and ship it into a system where "better" means a better experiment runs next week. If you want your work on autonomous agents to be grounded in reality instead of demos, this is the rare seat where it is. - Own the research-to-production loop for our agent: survey emerging agentic techniques, run structured experiments against them, and ship what proves out. - Continuously upgrade core agent capabilities — planning, tool selection and reasoning, memory, multi-agent coordination — measured against real benchmarks, not demos. - Build and own the evaluation harness that tells us whether a change is actually an improvement. This is the backbone of the role. - Diagnose where the agent fails at the frontier of its current capability and design the fixes. - Set technical direction for agentic best practices internally; review, mentor, and raise the quality bar for the existing engineers. - Translate latest research into pragmatic engineering decisions under real reliability and cost constraints.