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Imbue · 2 days ago

Research Engineer

San Francisco, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$170K/yr - $400K/yr

Imbue is focused on creating open AI agents to enhance software development. In this role, you will build the AI systems that power Sculptor, ensuring coding agents work effectively while influencing product development through research and engineering.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningRobotics

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Build verification systems that make coding agents more reliable, including test generation and LLM-as-judge approaches

Turn ambiguous problems into quantifiable ones, through a mixture of annotation, synthetic data generation, and product logging

Create agent improvement loops via self critique and evolutionary algorithms

Build experiences and tooling that help developers easily audit and manage coding agents

Partner with the product team to translate cutting-edge applied research into features users actually want

Qualification

PythonLLMsAgentic approachesTest generationEvolutionary algorithmsIndependenceSelf-motivation

Required

Comfortable with Python

Experience with LLMs

Experience with agentic approaches

Driven by making AI agents that actually work in the real world

Excited to see your research ship to thousands of developers

Independent and self-motivated

Benefits

Support for self-improvement: coaching, courses, conferences, etc

Company offsites—past locations include NYC, Santa Cruz, Hawai’i, and Tokyo!

Company paid medical, dental, and vision for you and your dependents

Lunch provided daily for onsite employees

$250 lifestyle stipend per month

Flexible PTO

Frequent team events, dinners, and fun activities

Company

Imbue

Imbue is a research lab that trains foundational models to develop AI agents.

Founded in 2021

San Francisco, California, USA

11-50 employees

https://imbue.com

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