AI Agent Engineer – Open Source & Eval

Sail

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 150,000 - 230,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Sail is advancing AI with a focus on agentic systems and scalable evaluation. This role centers on designing custom evals for multi-turn, massively parallel agents and building harnesses to improve open models.

You’ll also help automate prompt optimization to push performance in a competitive landscape. We’re seeking someone with hands-on experience building AI agents and familiarity with open source models who can turn billions of tokens into better, more reliable answers through thoughtful

Qualifications

  • Experience building AI agents.
  • Familiarity with open source models.
  • Ability to design evals for multi-turn, parallel agents.

Responsibilities

  • Design custom evals for multi-turn, massively parallel agents.
  • Build agent harnesses to improve open model performance.

Skills

AI agents
Open source models
Prompt optimization
Agent harnesses
Multi-turn evaluation

Tools

DSPy
Deepseek
Qwen
Llama
Claude Code

Job description

Sail is advancing AI with a focus on agentic systems and scalable evaluation. This role centers on designing custom evals for multi-turn, massively parallel agents and building harnesses to improve open models.

You’ll also help automate prompt optimization to push performance in a competitive landscape. We’re seeking someone with hands-on experience building AI agents and familiarity with open source models who can turn billions of tokens into better, more reliable answers through thoughtful

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