Zyphra
Full-Stack Software 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 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 agentic system designs for browsers, operating systems, filesystems, and collaboration tools
- Building search and retrieval pipelines across large-scale structured and unstructured data
- Build the backend layer for RAG systems and information context management systems
- Integrating LLMs, vision models, reinforcement learning, and scaffolding frameworks
Required qualifications
- Proficiency in Python
- Deep understanding of building and debugging complex end-to-end applications
- Experience working with SaaS environment and production workloads, web interfaces, databases, search engines, and queuing systems
- Experience developing browser extensions or automation tools with fine-grained control over the browser
- Understanding of LLMs, prompting techniques, and orchestration frameworks for multi-step reasoning
- Ability to work across the whole stack from web interfaces to control plane and data 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 (i.e., SOC 2, GDPR, etc.)
- Familiarity with embeddings, vector databases and large-scale document indexing
- Knowledge of web automation tools and headless browser environments (i.e., 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
- Machine Learning experience
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.