Research Engineer: Autonomous AI Agents for Infrastructure

Antimetal Inc; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Antimetal Inc., based in New York, seeks a Research Engineer to prototype approaches, run experiments, and own the path from research to production. You will work with platform and product to shape agent capabilities and evaluation methodologies.

Join a team building intelligent systems for infrastructure management, with opportunities to influence multi-area research and take prototypes into scalable services. This role requires in-person collaboration at our New York office.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in applied ML, research engineering, preferably at a company shipping production AI systems.
• Production experience contributing to agentic/LLM systems, including multi-step reasoning, reinforcement learning, fine-tuning, and orchestration.
• Proven experience bringing work from prototype to production, using data and experimentation to drive product and architectural decisions
• Strong on ML fundamentals: statistical modeling, probabilistic methods, time-series analysis, evaluation methodology.
• Real world expertise in one area of applied ML: search, statistical modeling, NLP, etc.
• Experience constructing and running end-to-end evaluation pipelines with real world data.
• Proficient in Python and Typescript, with experience using common ML libraries and data engineering tools.
• Strong problem-solving skills, with a focus on creating highly maintainable, scalable code.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and iterative development, prototyping, and adapting quickly to feedback.

Responsibilities

• Experiment, Evaluate, Iterate, Ship: Run experiments across our research areas, analyze results, validate what works, and take successful approaches to production.
• Build Evaluation Infrastructure: Partner with platform on live and offline evaluation pipelines, benchmarks, and synthetic data generation.
• Explore Research Directions: Apply and develop techniques from AI Agents, ML, and SRE research to our problem domain.
• Collaborate Across Teams: Work with platform and product to integrate capabilities and productionize prototypes into scalable and reliable services.

Skills

Applied ML expertise

Research engineering

Python

Typescript

Experimentation

Tools

ML libraries

Data engineering tools

Experimentation platforms

Job description

Antimetal Inc., based in New York, seeks a Research Engineer to prototype approaches, run experiments, and own the path from research to production. You will work with platform and product to shape agent capabilities and evaluation methodologies.

Join a team building intelligent systems for infrastructure management, with opportunities to influence multi-area research and take prototypes into scalable services. This role requires in-person collaboration at our New York office.