Senior Machine Learning Engineer, AI Agent at Genies

About Genies

Genies develops avatar technology for interactive digital identity through Smart Avatars, enabling developers and creators to deploy game-ready AI companions. Backed by investors including Bob Iger, Silver Lake, BOND, and NEA.

This senior-level role involves end-to-end ownership of research and development for AI avatar chat systems, driving the technical roadmap for intelligence and interactivity across millions of avatars.

Key Responsibilities:

Research and implement solutions using foundation models, prompt engineering, RAG, knowledge graphs, and multi-agent architectures for multi-modal AI chat products

Architect scalable AI features and agentic systems within backend infrastructure

Design quantitative benchmarks to evaluate and improve agentic systems

Partner with product teams to refine AI systems based on user feedback

Transition research outputs into production-ready systems

Establish best practices for agent quality assurance, safety, and cost control

Fine-tune and train LLM/ML models when necessary

Stay current with academic and industry AI research

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, AI, or related field

2+ years developing agentic systems with LLMs

3+ years building scalable production backend systems in Python, Go, or JavaScript

5+ years machine learning and statistics experience with proven product development

Strong communication and product collaboration skills

Preferred Qualifications:

Master's degree or Ph.D.

Strong product intuition

3+ years developing complex multi-agent systems

Comfort in lean, fast-moving environments

Publications at top-tier AI/ML conferences (ACL, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI, EMNLP, NAACL)

Salary: $200,000 - $275,000 base salary

Benefits: Competitive salary and equity, comprehensive health/dental/vision insurance, unlimited PTO, parental leave, hybrid work structure (min 4 days in office), monthly wellness reimbursement.