Autonomous AI Engineer: Multi-Modal Agent Orchestration

Antler; Maryland; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Commuter benefits

Relocation assistance

Paid time off

Leave-of-absence program

Job summary

Ruya AI is seeking a Quant engineer to join our multi-modal intelligence team. You will design and build the agent systems, tool integrations, and evaluation pipelines behind our AI capabilities.

You will own the orchestration layer, translating complex operator requirements into secure, reliable software and work hands-on with the broader engineering team. The role emphasizes building asynchronous services in Python/TypeScript, with a focus on tool use, memory management, safeguards, and

Qualifications

• Strong production Python and async programming experience.
• Experience building LLM applications with tool use and multi-step reasoning.
• Knowledge of structured output validation and non-deterministic system testing.
• Practical understanding of prompt injection and sensitive-data risks.
• Ability to evaluate AI behavior empirically rather than demonstrations.

Responsibilities

• Build asynchronous Python/TypeScript services with FastAPI, Pydantic, and asyncio.
• Develop agent orchestration, subagent delegation, tool calling, and structured outputs.
• Design MCP tools and AG-UI/SSE integrations.
• Improve prompt, context, memory, and token-management strategies.
• Build safeguards against prompt injection, data leakage, and unsafe tool use.
• Create behavioral evals and regression datasets using Langfuse.
• Trace model calls and tool execution with Langfuse, Sentry, and OpenTelemetry.
• Diagnose failures spanning model behavior, tools, data sources, and distributed services.

Skills

Python

Async programming

LLM applications

Tool usage

Multi-step reasoning

Output validation

Prompt injection awareness

Tools

Langfuse

LiteLLM

Anthropic-compatible APIs

CopilotKit

Geospatial intelligence

Entity graphs

Job description

Ruya AI is seeking a Quant engineer to join our multi-modal intelligence team. You will design and build the agent systems, tool integrations, and evaluation pipelines behind our AI capabilities.

You will own the orchestration layer, translating complex operator requirements into secure, reliable software and work hands-on with the broader engineering team. The role emphasizes building asynchronous services in Python/TypeScript, with a focus on tool use, memory management, safeguards, and