• You've shipped production agents or agent adjacent systems at a company, not just in a lab.
• Experience with memory, context engineering, or techniques that make agents reason better without retraining them.
• An applied, builder's mindset: rigorous thinking, shipped in days and weeks, not semesters.
• Comfortable owning ambiguous, senior level problems on your own.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals to go with your ML and agent experience.
• Practical fluency with the modern agent tooling stack: vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector, or similar), retrieval frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex), and agent orchestration tools such as LangGraph.
• Comfortable working directly with LLM provider APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, or similar) and embedding models for retrieval and memory systems.
• Experience with agent evaluation and benchmarking tooling (e.g. LangSmith, Ragas, TruLens, or a custom eval harness).
• Strong communicator, written and verbal.
• An advanced degree (MS or PhD), paired with real industry experience.
• Experience testing and benchmarking agent behavior.
• Experience building "skills" or reusable capabilities for AI agents.
• Experience with agents that handle serious volumes of complex information (think a genuinely capable assistant, not a demo).
• Time spent in a fast scaling product and engineering org.