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.