seldon - MTS: AI Research Engineer

• Systems, Not Prompts: You prioritize state machines, orchestration layers, and tool-use contracts over prompt hacking. You build for reliability, inspectability, and improvability - you’re uncomfortable with “it just works sometimes.” If it can’t be measured, it doesn’t ship. • Production Experience: You have 5+ years building complex software and 2+ years shipping agentic LLM systems. You’ve built harnesses where agents manage tool selection, error recovery, and multi-step execution autonomously in production environments that run, break, and evolve. • Orchestration Systems: You’re experienced with multi-agent orchestration, sandboxed execution, and complex backends. You optimize for coordination, scoped memory & context, and how agents degrade gracefully under pressure. • Python Mastery: You’re an expert in async programming and structured data modeling (Pydantic), building maintainable, scalable systems designed for extensibility. • Fast, Iterative Builder: You thrive when research and product move together. You’re comfortable shipping quickly, learning from real users, and refining systems in tight loops. • High Ownership, Low Ego: You take responsibility for what you build. You’re willing to be wrong, change your mind, and prioritize being effective over being “theoretically right. • Comfortable at the Frontier: You’re excited by ambiguous problems. You’re not waiting for best practices - you’re helping define them. • Product Intuition: You prioritize signal over noise because outputs matter. You care that what you build helps someone make a decision. • All Backgrounds Welcome: Some of us are dropouts, some have PhDs. Some are tech veterans, some are first-timers. What matters - how you think, how you build, and how you work in teams.