Agent Engineer (AI)

Location: New York, United States

Salary: $175,000–$240,000 per year, plus equity

Company

Builds and deploys AI scientist agents that accelerate scientific research and the development of new medicines.

What you will do

• Architect, implement, and maintain AI agents from prototype through production.
• Explore agent architectures, prompting strategies, tool integrations, and evaluation frameworks with science and engineering teams.
• Develop reusable infrastructure including agent skills, tool-use pipelines, and benchmarks.
• Work with R&D partners approximately 30% of the time to understand workflows and validate agent capabilities in real environments.
• Translate field insights and internal research into product priorities.

Requirements

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience and experience shipping production systems used by real users.
• Experience building LLM-powered tools or applications, including prompting, context engineering, agent architectures, or evaluation frameworks.
• Strong foundation in computer science, software engineering, mathematics, physics, data science, or a related technical field.
• Proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript, with the ability to learn new tools and frameworks quickly.
• Ability to collaborate across engineering, science, and product teams and work effectively in ambiguous environments.

Nice to have

• Experience in life sciences, biomedical research, scientific computing, or technical R&D workflows.
• Experience building agent systems, tool-use pipelines, or AI evaluation and benchmarking frameworks.
• Contributions to open-source scientific or AI tooling.

Culture & Benefits

• Mission-driven, fast-moving working environment with regular team off-sites and company events.
• Full healthcare coverage with 100% of premiums paid for employees and dependents.
• Paid parental leave, fertility coverage, new parent support, and mental health support.
• Pet care, commuter, and quarterly health and wellness benefits.
• 401(k) company matching, office meals, and dinner coverage when working late.