Research Engineer, Applied AI & LLMs for Enterprise

Madrona Venture Labs; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 252,000 - 308,000; Full time

Job summary

WisdomAI is hiring Research Engineers to convert cutting-edge AI research into production systems used by enterprise customers. The role sits at the intersection of research and engineering, designing experiments, inventing approaches, and shipping systems that impact customer experience.

Based in our San Mateo office, you’ll collaborate across teams and push the boundaries of AI within practical constraints.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of shipping production AI systems.
• Master's degree required; PhD a plus.
• Deep experience with modern LLMs and agent architectures.
• Strong software engineering with production‑quality Python and AI frameworks.
• Ability to design rigorous evaluation frameworks balancing quality, latency, cost, and reliability.
• Experience improving model cost/quality via experimentation.

Responsibilities

• Design experiments for NL-to-SQL generation, retrieval, ranking, and agentic reasoning.
• Advance multi-turn conversational understanding through context retention, entity resolution, memory, and clarification strategies.
• Build evaluation frameworks, benchmarks, and LLm-as-a-judge methodologies.

Skills

Applied ML/NLP

LLMs

Python

Production-grade software

Experimentation

Education

Master's degree in CS/ML/AI/NLP

PhD is a strong plus

Tools

Python

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Job description

WisdomAI is hiring Research Engineers to convert cutting-edge AI research into production systems used by enterprise customers. The role sits at the intersection of research and engineering, designing experiments, inventing approaches, and shipping systems that impact customer experience.

Based in our San Mateo office, you’ll collaborate across teams and push the boundaries of AI within practical constraints.