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AI Engineer

Mentor Talent Acquisition ·

Actively hiring Posted 6 months ago

Role overview

  • Designing and implementing evaluation frameworks to measure LLM and agent performance across reasoning, accuracy, multi-turn dialogue, and tool usage
  • Creating and open-sourcing benchmarks for evaluating LLM output on investment-research-specific tasks such as synthesis quality and citation grounding
  • Building prompt refinement systems that learn from production signals and human feedback to improve reliability and performance
  • Developing and maintaining agentic tooling including research assistants, deep research flows, and voice agents
  • Integrating external APIs, search, speech-to-text, and text-to-speech technologies into production systems
  • Prototyping lightweight voice agent frameworks with strong evaluation around latency, error recovery, and conversational flow
  • Collaborating closely with research and product teams to productionize new prompting, retrieval, and multi-agent orchestration techniques
  • Contributing meaningfully to product direction, prioritization, and long-term technical strategy

Benefits

  • Gym membership
  • In-office cook
  • Summers working remotely by the beach

About the company

  • Is based in NYC (in-person, 5 days per week)
  • Has 5+ years of professional experience, with recent, hands-on work with LLMs
  • Has strong opinions and enjoys contributing to product and architectural decisions
  • Communicates clearly and is comfortable in a client-facing environment
  • Can explain complex AI concepts to non-technical stakeholders and turn ideas into testable experiments
  • Has built LLM systems end to end in a product-focused organization, from data and logging to evaluation and prompt optimization
  • Has a strong bias to action and experience delivering complex projects with senior stakeholders
  • Is excited to help grow a team and shape engineering culture
  • Deep, recent experience working with LLMs and agentic systems is required
  • Strong software engineering mindset rather than a purely research-focused background
  • Either a software engineer who has transitioned into LLM systems, or an ML engineer who has spent the last few years heavily focused on LLMs
  • Experience forming clear views on improving LLM output, reliability, and evaluation
  • Leadership potential, with the opportunity to grow into a Head of AI role over time

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