2d ago

Research Engineer, Agents

New York City

$200k-$400k / year

full-timesoftware

๐Ÿ’ผ About This Role

You'll design agent orchestration systems for Decagon's conversational AI platform. Your work will directly impact how agents reason and take actions across millions of interactions. You'll collaborate closely with Research, Infra, and Product teams to ship improvements safely at scale.

๐ŸŽฏ What You'll Do

  • Design and evolve agent harnesses for different product experiences
  • Build core runtime systems including AOP execution and multi-model orchestration
  • Develop control-plane logic for routing, planning, and tool invocation
  • Optimize agent systems for latency, reliability, and production correctness

๐Ÿ“‹ Requirements

  • Strong experience building distributed systems or backend platforms in production
  • Comfort working in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
  • Experience owning systems end-to-end from design to production
  • Familiarity with experimentation or data-driven product improvement loops

โœจ Nice to Have

  • Built agent harnesses or orchestration layers
  • Worked on control planes and feedback loops
  • Experience with production quality and scalability

๐ŸŽ Benefits & Perks

  • ๐ŸŒด Take what you need vacation policy
  • ๐Ÿฅ Medical, Dental, Vision for you and family
  • ๐Ÿ’ฐ Equity and retirement plan
  • ๐Ÿ‘ถ Parental leave and family building benefits
  • ๐Ÿฝ๏ธ Daily lunches

๐Ÿ“จ Hiring Process

Estimated timeline: 2-4 weeks ยท AI estimate

  1. 1Recruiter Screenยท 30 min
  2. 2Technical Interviewยท 60 min
  3. 3Onsite Interviewยท Full day
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