Senior / Staff AI Engineer — Evals & Model Quality
$300k - $350k • San Francisco • FullTime
Posted 3d ago
Job Location
San Francisco
Tech Stack
Remote Work Policy
On-site
Employment Type
FullTime
Categories
Applied AI Engineer
About the job
FurtherAI is building AI agents to revolutionize the insurance industry, a trillion-dollar market currently reliant on manual processes. We combine frontier agentic AI with deep domain expertise to transform critical industry operations. Having secured over $30 million in funding from top investors and experienced significant growth, we are a deeply technical company where engineers have a substantial impact on product direction. We are seeking an exceptional AI Engineer to lead our efforts in evaluating and continuously enhancing the quality of AI agents across our platform.
Responsibilities
- Build evaluation frameworks and infrastructure to measure AI agent accuracy, quality, and reliability across various workflows.
- Develop golden datasets, benchmarks, and regression suites in collaboration with domain experts.
- Design evaluations for complex agent behaviors, including multi-step trajectories, tool use, and reasoning.
- Create automated grading systems using LLM-as-judge, deterministic graders, and human evaluation workflows.
- Integrate offline and online evaluations into development and release processes for confident shipping.
- Continuously benchmark frontier and open-weight models on metrics like accuracy, latency, cost, and reliability to inform model selection.
- Establish continuous improvement loops by converting production failures and feedback into new evaluation cases and quality enhancements.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience with hands-on experience building production AI/ML systems.
- Experience building evaluation frameworks, LLM-based applications, model benchmarking systems, or applied AI infrastructure.
- Strong understanding of modern LLMs, agent architectures, evaluation methodologies, and model performance tradeoffs.
- Proficient Python engineering skills for building reliable, production-grade systems.
- Ability to independently own ambiguous technical problems from research to production.
- Clear communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Experience with LLM-as-judge, human evaluation systems, agent trajectory evaluations, or large-scale benchmarking is a plus.
- Experience with open-weight models, fine-tuning, post-training, or model routing is a plus.
- Background in B2B SaaS and 0-to-1 experience is a plus.
- Demonstrated drive, grit, and ownership.
Benefits
- Fully covered, best-in-class health, dental, and vision benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Meaningful stock options
- Company 401(k)
- Unlimited PTO
- Lunch and dinner onsite
- Team events, such as happy hours and off-sites
- Pre-tax commuter benefits