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Greylock Partners · 2 days ago

Sr. AI Agent Engineer

San Francisco, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

Greylock Partners is an early-stage investor in numerous innovative companies, and they are seeking a Sr. AI Agent Engineer focused on advancing AI systems for document understanding and retrieval-augmented generation. The role involves developing core agent reasoning and retrieval pipelines while collaborating with the developer community and bridging innovation from open-source to managed cloud services.

FinanceFinancial ServicesVenture Capital

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Developing core agent reasoning, memory, and retrieval pipelines

Collaborating with an active developer ecosystem

Designing elegant, high-performance tools that handle real-world data complexity

Contributing to open-source projects

Translating community feedback into tangible product improvements

Bridging innovation from open-source experimentation into managed cloud services and APIs

Ensuring a seamless developer experience across both domains

Qualification

PythonLLM behaviorVector searchSystem designContainerizationDistributed systemsNLPCommunity engagementDeveloper experienceModular designContinuous learning

Required

strong expertise in Python

expertise in LLM behavior

expertise in vector search

expertise in system design

experience with LLM-powered applications

strong grasp of first-principles engineering

experience in AI infrastructure engineering

experience in applied machine learning development

experience in research engineering

experience as a senior software engineer with a focus on Python systems

experience in NLP

experience in knowledge retrieval

experience contributing to or building upon open-source frameworks

track record of turning experimental AI ideas into scalable, developer-friendly products

Preferred

familiarity with containerization

familiarity with distributed systems

Company

Greylock Partners

We are the first partner for founders. Over 80% of our investments are the first check: Pre-Seed, Seed, or Series A. Many start on a whiteboard.

Founded in 1965

Menlo Park, California, USA

51-200 employees

https://www.greylock.com

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