Senior Machine Learning Engineer, AI Agent
AI Tools
Tech Stack
Agent Workflow
Implement solutions using foundation models, prompt engineering, RAG, knowledge graphs, and multi-agent architectures. Build scalable AI features and agentic systems for backend infrastructure.
About the Role
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.