Zyphra

AI Engineer

San Francisco. Posted 8 months ago

The role

You will be a core contributor to Agentic Systems and Interaction projects. You will build a next-generation desktop and browser-based agent that navigates the web, interacts with filesystems, and completes complex user tasks.

What you will do

  • Design and implementation of an agentic system capable of interacting with browsers, operating systems, and enterprise filesystems
  • Building search and retrieval pipelines across large-scale structured and unstructured data
  • Integrating LLMs, vision models, reinforcement learning, and scaffolding frameworks for autonomous, multi-step decision-making
  • Engineering secure virtualized runtimes and backend services for agent execution

Required qualifications

  • Proficiency in Python and a deep understanding of building and debugging complex ML-driven applications
  • Experience working with desktop operating systems (Windows and macOS), including APIs for screen reading, file interaction, and accessibility frameworks
  • Experience developing browser extensions or automation tools with fine-grained control over the browser (mouse, tabs, DOM)
  • Understanding of LLMs, prompting techniques, and orchestration frameworks for multi-step reasoning
  • Ability to work across the full ML stack, from model integration to serving infrastructure
  • Experience designing or working with secure and virtualized execution environments
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills across product, research, and engineering teams

Nice to have

  • Experience building or integrating retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems
  • Experience working with enterprise security and compliance frameworks (e.g., SOC 2)
  • Familiarity with vector databases and large-scale document indexing
  • Knowledge of web automation tools and headless browser environments (e.g, Puppeteer, Playwright)
  • Understanding of sandboxed or containerized compute environments with strict access controls
  • Comfort designing user-facing agentic workflows and reasoning systems that span multiple modalities (text, vision, actions)
  • Experience using and fine-tuning models for screen reading, OCR, or UI understanding
  • Background in HCI or interest in building intuitive agent interfaces that extend human capabilities

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and FSA plans
  • Competitive compensation and 401(k) plan
  • Relocation and immigration support on a case-by-case basis
  • In-office snacks and meals provided
  • Unlimited PTO and company holidays

About the company

Zyphra is an artificial intelligence company based in San Francisco, California.

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