Gradial
Applied AI Engineer
Seattle, WA
Sponsorship not specified$130k-$220kDetected 8 days ago
Machine LearningData EngineeringLLMsUX ResearchResearchProblem Solving
About the role
- This role combines deep software engineering skills with an experimental mindset around how AI can be practically applied to solve real user problems.
- Ideal candidates bring curiosity, a love of ambiguous problems, and hands-on experience applying LLMs in production.
Responsibilities
- You'll collaborate across product, research, and engineering to design agents that reason, interact with environments and evolve through feedback.
- Build autonomous and semi-autonomous agent workflows that interact with browsers, codebases, and APIs to complete complex content operations.
- Develop data pipelines to collect, transform, and annotate real-world usage data for SFT and RL training.
- A front-row seat to building category-defining AI infrastructure
- Have an innate drive for being 1% better than the day before, building towards greatness.
- Thrive in fast-paced, hyper-growth environments where building better > maintaining status quo.
Requirements
- 4+ years of software engineering experience, with at least a year working directly on AI/ML-powered applications.
- High degree of ownership and comfort in experimental, fast-moving environments.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with benchmarks like SWE-bench or evaluation strategies for tool-using agents.
- Exposure to customer-facing roles or user research for AI product development.
- Final compensation will be determined based on factors such as experience, skills, and qualifications.
Skills
- Evaluate model behavior in live environments and pioneer approaches for applying reinforcement learning to end-to-end agent systems.
Compensation
- The salary range for this position is $130,000 - $220,000 annually.
- Final compensation will be determined based on factors such as experience, skills, and qualifications.
- In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for performance-based bonuses and equity awards.
- Competitive salary and meaningful equity
Benefits
- Competitive salary and meaningful equity
- Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage
Company info
- We're looking for an Applied AI Engineer to help build the next generation of agentic systems.
- Partner with customers and internal stakeholders to understand edge cases and align AI behaviors with user expectations.
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