Founding AI Engineer: Agent Evaluation & Alignment

Zingage

New York (NY)

On-site

USD 190,000 - 240,000

Full time

14 days+
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Luxury gym membership in NYC
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Job summary

Zingage (Kuzushi Inc.) is building the intelligence layer for home-based care in New York City. We seek a founding AI engineer to own evaluation, simulation, retrieval, and alignment infrastructure for autonomous agents in a high-impact healthcare setting.

You will ship production ML/LLM improvements, measure outcomes, and drive the harness while collaborating with founders. This is the most senior AI hire at the company and offers meaningful equity and rapid impact.

Responsibilities

  • Evaluation and simulation infrastructure: CI/CD for agent behavior; run Casey against historical scenarios; measure fill-rate outcomes; A/B test prompt and orchestration changes before production.
  • Retrieval and grounding architecture: design retrieval to provide right context to the right agent at the right turn as knowledge surface grows.
  • Alignment and outcome measurement: connect every ranking decision, outreach attempt, and agent choice to business outcomes across systems.
  • Agent intelligence roadmap: decide when fine-tuning, reward modeling, or new architectures are the right next investment and ship them.

Job description

Zingage (Kuzushi Inc.) is building the intelligence layer for home-based care in New York City. We seek a founding AI engineer to own evaluation, simulation, retrieval, and alignment infrastructure for autonomous agents in a high-impact healthcare setting.

You will ship production ML/LLM improvements, measure outcomes, and drive the harness while collaborating with founders. This is the most senior AI hire at the company and offers meaningful equity and rapid impact.

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