AI Engineer: Agentic Systems & Security

SandboxAQ; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equity participation

Comprehensive medical, dental, and eye

Retirement savings with company match

Paid parental leave

Job summary

SandboxAQ is seeking an AI Engineer to advance agentic collaboration, trust, and ROI. You will design and ship production-ready agentic features, monitor and guard systems, and collaborate with product and research to translate AI research into real software.

You will work across ML, security, and software engineering in a fast-growing startup, balancing hands-on coding with exploration and publication. This role offers impactful work on cutting-edge AI technology.

Qualifications

• MSc in Computer Science or related field with exposure to AI/ML.
• Deep expertise in AI/ML, software engineering, or AI security.
• Strong programming skills in Python, and relevant ML and/or agentic frameworks.
• Demonstrated ability to work cross‑functionally and collaboratively with end‑to‑end ownership, delivering real world outcomes.
• Ability to pick up other programming languages and technologies as required to ship scalable and reliable software.

Responsibilities

• Create new agentic capabilities - frameworks for monitoring, guardrailing, and evaluating them, and to make them work together more effectively.
• Perform classical ML tasks - exploratory data analysis, feature engineering and fine‑tuning models using the latest frameworks.
• Work closely with Product and Research to translate AI research into applicable features and software engineering projects.
• Rapidly iterate on prototypes and features based on feedback and evolving product needs.
• Contribute production ready code, working across engineering to deliver scalable software.
• Stay on the edge of the latest agentic developments and explore new opportunities.

Skills

AI/ML expertise

Software engineering

Python

Cross-functional collaboration

End-to-end ownership

Adaptability

Education

MSc in Computer Science

PhD in Computer Science

Job description

SandboxAQ is seeking an AI Engineer to advance agentic collaboration, trust, and ROI. You will design and ship production-ready agentic features, monitor and guard systems, and collaborate with product and research to translate AI research into real software.

You will work across ML, security, and software engineering in a fast-growing startup, balancing hands-on coding with exploration and publication. This role offers impactful work on cutting-edge AI technology.