Zyphra
Full-Stack Software Engineer
San Francisco
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 127 days ago
PythonFull-Stack DevelopmentVector DatabasesMachine LearningLLMsRAGAgentic AIAI OrchestrationCompliancePlaywrightResearchExperimental DesignCommunicationCollaboration
About the role
- As a Full-Stack Software Engineer, you will be a core contributor to Zyphra's Agentic Systems and Interaction projects.
- Integrating LLMs, vision models, reinforcement learning, and scaffolding frameworks for autonomous, multi-step decision-making
- We value velocity and curiosity, especially in fast-moving and ambiguous environments
Responsibilities
- What matters most is your drive to build production-grade software
- Relocation and immigration support on a case-by-case basis
- Design and implementation of different agentic system designs capable of interacting with browsers, operating systems, enterprise filesystems, collaboration tools, etc.
- Building search and retrieval pipelines across large-scale structured and unstructured data
Requirements
- Proficiency in Python and a deep understanding of building and debugging complex end-to-end applications
- Experience working with SaaS environment and production workloads, web interfaces, databases, search engines, and queuing systems
- Ability to work across the whole stack from web interfaces to control plane and data infrastructure like queuing systems, databases, and search indexes
- Experience designing or working with secure and virtualized execution environments
- Build the backend layer for RAG systems and other information context management systems required for agents to operate
- Familiarity with embeddings, vector databases and large-scale document indexing
- Background in HCI or interest in building intuitive agent interfaces that extend human capabilities
- Our research methodology is grounded in methodical, step-by-step approaches to ambitious goals. Both deep research and engineering excellence are equally valued
Skills
- Experience building or integrating retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems
- Experience working with enterprise security and compliance frameworks (i.e., SOC 2, GDPR, etc.)
- Knowledge of web automation tools and headless browser environments (i.e., Puppeteer, Playwright)
- Understanding of sandboxed or containerized compute environments with strict access controls
- Comfort designing user-facing agentic workflows and reasoning systems that span multiple modalities (text, vision, actions)
- Experience using and fine-tuning models for screen reading, OCR, or UI understanding
- Machine Learning experience as a double bonus
- We strongly value new and crazy ideas and are very willing to bet big on new ideas
- We move as quickly as we can; we aim to minimize the bar to impact as low as possible
- We all enjoy what we do and love discussing AI
Compensation
- Competitive compensation and 401(k) plan
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and FSA plans
- Unlimited PTO and company holidays
- This role spans agentic orchestration, frontend interfaces, secure sandboxing environments, large-scale document search and retrieval, and language/vision model integration.
Company info
- ZYPHRA IS AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE COMPANY BASED IN SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.
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