Hebbia · 4 months ago
Applied Research Engineer, Agents
New York City
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$160K/yr - $300K/yr
7+ years expHebbia is focused on creating a user interface for universal knowledge capture, aiming to empower users through capable AI. As an Applied Research Engineer, you will bridge research and application, enabling agentic capabilities across Hebbia's product suite and conducting experiments to solve high-value customer problems.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Business IntelligenceProductivity ToolsSoftware
Responsibilities
Focused on LLMs, you will play a crucial role in analyzing and interpreting complex data types to derive and implement cutting edge insight generation systems
Iterate and explore new LLM and NLP techniques maintaining our foothold as an industry leader
You will utilize your expertise in statistics, programming, and machine learning to develop and deploy data-driven models and algorithms
Your work will contribute to solving business problems, improving processes, and enhancing the overall performance of the company
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve NLP/LLM capabilities in app
Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements and research in the space
Collaborate with software engineers to integrate agentic capabilities into existing systems or develop new applications
Ensure that systems are efficient, maintainable and well monitored
Iterate on validation and testing frameworks
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
7+ years software development experience at a venture-backed startup or top technology firm, with a focus on applied machine learning systems
Strong programming skills in Python
Experience with NLP and text processing libraries such as NLTK, SpaCy, or Apache Tika
Experience with Search and Indexing technologies
Proficient in machine learning techniques and algorithms
Experience working with foundational models and corresponding APIs
Knowledge of statistical analysis and data scraping techniques
Prior experience in developing NLP models and systems
Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
Strong communication and teamwork abilities
Strong capability to translate research into production software systems
Preferred
Master's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Machine Learning or a related field is a plus
Experience building with foundation models and experience working with Attention based NLP models is a plus
Experience with prompting and building LLM applications and agents is a plus
Experience building agentic systems or LLM enabled products
Frequent user of AI products, especially during the development lifecycle (i.e. Cursor, Claude Code, etc)
Benefits
PTO: Unlimited
Insurance: Medical + Dental + Vision + 401K
Eats: Catered lunch daily + doordash dinner credit if you ever need to stay late
Parental leave policy: 3 months non-birthing parent, 4 months for birthing parent
Fertility benefits: $15k lifetime benefit
New hire equity grant: competitive equity package with unmatched upside potential
Company
Hebbia
Hebbia is an AI platform that helps companies transform heaps of information into insights.
51-200 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$161.1MKey Investors
Andreessen HorowitzIndex VenturesFloodgate
2024-07-08Series B· $130M
2022-07-01Series A· $30M
2020-10-29Pre Seed· $1.1M
Leadership Team
George Sivulka
Founder and CEO
Recent News
Business Wire
2025-12-16
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