Frontier AI Systems Engineer - Full-Stack Ownership

Chakra Labs; New York (NY); On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Chakra Labs in New York, NY is seeking an engineer to tackle frontier problems by building high‑fidelity environments, evaluation tasks, and datasets for frontier AI research. You will push the boundaries of what agents can do, shipping practical deliverables.

You will own end-to-end results, collaborate with researchers and customers, and iterate rapidly in a fast-paced setting that values measurable impact and reliability.

Qualifications

• Full-stack engineering across backend services, data pipelines, and frontend to ship a usable interface.
• Turn loosely-defined research questions into concrete environments, tasks, evals, or datasets.
• Communicate clearly with researchers and technical customers, balancing requests with needs.
• Interest in how agents fail and how to measure it during design and testing.
• Ideally 3+ years shipping production software, with background aligning to frontier ML work.

Responsibilities

• Build and deploy high-fidelity environments, evaluation tasks, and datasets for frontier AI research.
• Extend and generalize custom builds into core products.
• Collaborate with researchers and customers to ensure outputs are useful and measurable.

Skills

Full-stack development

Ambiguity handling

Customer communication

Evals & datasets

Production software

Job description

Chakra Labs in New York, NY is seeking an engineer to tackle frontier problems by building high‑fidelity environments, evaluation tasks, and datasets for frontier AI research. You will push the boundaries of what agents can do, shipping practical deliverables.

You will own end-to-end results, collaborate with researchers and customers, and iterate rapidly in a fast-paced setting that values measurable impact and reliability.