Founding Member of Technical Staff

Ambral

$150K — $180K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 2+ years of experience in building production software, preferably machine-learning systems
  • Strong software development skills, especially in handling large datasets
  • Ability to convert ambiguous business objectives into clear, evaluable tasks
  • Skilled in diagnosing model limitations across various factors
  • Experience bridging research and production implementations
  • Focus on reproducibility and observability in model behavior
  • Desire to create impactful work you can be proud of over the long term

Responsibilities

  • Build a replayable environment to reflect historical enterprise context
  • Collaborate with customers to understand their tasks and data
  • Develop an environment factory for converting enterprise data into usable environments
  • Design grading systems to quantify business objectives into verifiable rewards
  • Extract useful tasks and evaluation cases from historical workflows
  • Experiment with learning objectives and task design
  • Create evaluation sets that are representative and resistant to overfitting
  • Establish replay and observability systems for explainable agent behavior

Benefits

  • Significant equity and ownership in the company
  • Equinox gym membership for personal well-being
  • Free meals, coffee, and snacks to maintain energy at work
  • Comprehensive health insurance coverage
  • Unlimited paid time off for work-life balance
Full Job Description
What you'll do

We're building a replayable environment engine over real enterprise history.

The system reconstructs a company's context as it existed at any past time, then exposes that state through the same tools an agent would use in production. This lets us place new policies and agent configurations inside real historical environments, observe how they reason and act, and grade their performance against real outcomes.

You'll help build the infrastructure and work hands-on with customers to turn their real enterprise data into a scalable, continuous model-improvement system. The core problems include:
  • Forward deploying with our customers to understand their tasks and data
  • Developing the environment factory that converts recorded enterprise data and task definitions into runnable environments
  • Designing graders to turn ambiguous business objectives into verifiable rewards
  • Developing methods for mining useful tasks, trajectories, and evaluation cases from historical workflows
  • Experimenting with learning objectives and task design
  • Creating eval sets that are representative, reproducible, and resistant to overfitting
  • Finding the right combinations of models, tools, context, and policies to maximize performance while reducing inference cost
  • Building replay and observability systems that make agent behavior explainable and measurable

These problems are wide open. You'll have significant ownership over the production systems that make it real.

You'll work directly with the CTO, deploy into real enterprise workflows, and see your implementations tested against consequential problems and observable outcomes.

Who you are
  • You have 2+ years of experience building production software (ideally with experience in machine-learning systems)
  • You write strong software and can build systems that process large, messy datasets at scale
  • You're comfortable turning fuzzy business objectives into tasks and signals that can be evaluated reliably
  • You can diagnose whether a model's limitations come from the model itself, its context, its tools, its harness, or its training
  • You can move between research questions and production implementation without treating them as separate jobs
  • You care about reproducibility, observability, and understanding why a model behaves the way it does
  • You're looking to do the best work of your life and build something you'll be proud of for decades

We care much more about what you've built and how you think than credentials or conventional career paths.

Benefits
  • Significant equity and ownership
  • Equinox membership
  • Free meals, coffee, and snacks
  • Health insurance
  • Unlimited PTO

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