Senior AI Research Engineer - Agentic Systems (Remote)

Dropzone AI; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401K Plan with employer match

Self‑Managed PTO

Parental leave

Job summary

Dropzone AI is hiring a Senior to Principal-level AI Research Engineer to lead design and development of next‑generation agentic AI systems. You will shape how agents reason, remember, and improve over time, translating research into scalable, real‑world systems and influencing core intelligence layers.

You will collaborate with product and engineering teams to move cutting-edge research into production, focusing on reliability, benchmarking, and continual learning.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software engineering with at least 1+ year applying GenAI in production.
• Experience building or researching agent frameworks, memory/retrieval systems (RAG, vector DBs).
• Expert Python developer.
• Familiar with openclaw and Claude Code harness architecture.
• Startup mindset; thrive in ambiguity and fast execution.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement advanced multi-step reasoning agents (tool use, planning, reflection, self-improvement loops).
• Develop frameworks for multi-agent coordination and task decomposition.
• Improve reliability, latency, and cost of agent execution.

Skills

Agent frameworks

Memory systems

Python

GenAI in production

Research to production

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

LangGraph

AutoGen

Claude Code harness

Job description

Dropzone AI is hiring a Senior to Principal-level AI Research Engineer to lead design and development of next‑generation agentic AI systems. You will shape how agents reason, remember, and improve over time, translating research into scalable, real‑world systems and influencing core intelligence layers.

You will collaborate with product and engineering teams to move cutting-edge research into production, focusing on reliability, benchmarking, and continual learning.