Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Agentic Evals and Self-Improvement (Nova)
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What You'll Do
- Build evaluation systems for models and agents: benchmarks, LLM judges, simulations, trajectory analysis, and regression tests.
- Create a loop that takes failures from diagnosis to fix to measured improvement.
- Turn evaluation results into automatic optimization of prompts, context, tools, rubrics, and agent harnesses.
- Build synthetic data pipelines for evaluation and post-training, with attention to quality, privacy, and reproducibility.
- Apply recent research (LLM-as-judge, reward modeling, test-time search, post-training) to production.
- Mentor engineers on the team and help set the technical direction for Nova.
What We're Looking For
- 5+ years of hands-on MLE experience putting complex ML systems into production at scale, such as production ML pipelines or large-scale experimentation platforms.
- Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, AI, or a related field.
- You keep up with the latest research and focus on applying it: shipping reliable changes that measurably improve the product experience for customers.
- Strong Python skills with an emphasis on readable, modular, and maintainable code, plus experience with modern ML frameworks.
- Deep experience evaluating LLMs or agents, including multi-turn behavior, tool use, and reasoning.
- Experience building automated evaluation, such as LLM judges, reward models, or benchmark infrastructure.
- Experience with at least one of: prompt or context optimization, post-training, preference optimization, or reinforcement learning.
- Strong communication and cross-team collaboration.
Bonus points
- Experience with LLM APIs from multiple providers (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google), including tool calling and prompt caching.
- Experience with automatic prompt optimization and error analysis
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