Applied Research Engineer, Agents

The role

You will enable agentic capabilities across the Hebbia product suite by bridging research and application. You will own experiments and POCs that combine research findings with customer problems using LLMs and NLP.

What you will do

• Analyze and interpret complex data types to implement insight generation systems.
• Iterate and explore new LLM and NLP techniques.
• Develop and deploy data-driven models and algorithms using statistics, programming, and machine learning.
• Solve business problems and improve company performance.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve NLP/LLM capabilities in app.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements and research.
• Collaborate with software engineers to integrate agentic capabilities or develop new applications.
• Ensure systems are efficient, maintainable and well monitored.
• Iterate on validation and testing frameworks.

Required qualifications

• 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

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Machine Learning or a related field
• Experience building with foundation models
• Experience working with Attention based NLP models
• Experience with prompting and building LLM applications and agents
• 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

• Unlimited PTO
• Medical + Dental + Vision
• 401K
• Catered lunch daily
• doordash dinner credit if you ever need to stay late
• 3 months non-birthing parent parental leave
• 4 months birthing parent parental leave
• $15k lifetime fertility benefit
• competitive equity package

About the company

Hebbia is an AI platform for investors and bankers that generates alpha and drives upside. It powers investment decisions for 40% of the world’s largest asset managers.