AI Engineer

About this role

ZYPHRA IS AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE COMPANY BASED IN SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

THE ROLE:

As a AI Engineer, you will be a core contributor to Zyphra’s Agentic Systems and Interaction projects. You will be at the forefront of building a next-generation desktop and browser-based agent that can autonomously navigate the web, interact with filesystems, and complete complex user tasks. This role spans frontend interfaces, secure sandboxing environments, large-scale document search and retrieval, and language/vision model integration.

YOU’LL WORK ACROSS:

- Design and implementation of an agentic system capable of interacting with browsers, operating systems, and enterprise filesystems

- Building search and retrieval pipelines across large-scale structured and unstructured data

- Integrating LLMs, vision models, reinforcement learning, and scaffolding frameworks for autonomous, multi-step decision-making

- Engineering secure virtualized runtimes and backend services for agent execution

- What matters most is your drive to build production-grade ML systems that push the boundary of what software agents can do

- We value velocity and curiosity, especially in fast-moving and ambiguous environments

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR / REQUIREMENTS:

- Proficiency in Python and a deep understanding of building and debugging complex ML-driven applications

- Experience working with desktop operating systems (Windows and macOS), including APIs for screen reading, file interaction, and accessibility frameworks

- Experience developing browser extensions or automation tools with fine-grained control over the browser (mouse, tabs, DOM)

- Understanding of LLMs, prompting techniques, and orchestration frameworks for multi-step reasoning

- Ability to work across the full ML stack, from model integration to serving infrastructure

- Experience designing or working with secure and virtualized execution environments

- Excellent communication and collaboration skills across product, research, and engineering teams

QUALIFICATIONS / ADDITIONAL SKILLS:

- Experience building or integrating retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems

- Experience working with enterprise security and compliance frameworks (e.g., SOC 2)

- Familiarity with vector databases and large-scale document indexing

- Knowledge of web automation tools and headless browser environments (e.g, Puppeteer, Playwright)

- Understanding of sandboxed or containerized compute environments with strict access controls

- Comfort designing user-facing agentic workflows and reasoning systems that span multiple modalities (text, vision, actions)

- Experience using and fine-tuning models for screen reading, OCR, or UI understanding

- Background in HCI or interest in building intuitive agent interfaces that extend human capabilities

WHY WORK AT ZYPHRA:

- Our research methodology is to make grounded, methodical steps toward ambitious goals. Both deep research and engineering excellence are equally valued

- We strongly value new and crazy ideas and are very willing to bet big on new ideas

- We move as quickly as we can; we aim to minimize the bar to impact as low as possible

- We all enjoy what we do and love discussing AI

BENEFITS AND PERKS:

- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and FSA plans

- Competitive compensation and 401(k) plan

- Relocation and immigration support on a case-by-case basis

- In-office snacks and meals provided

- Unlimited PTO and company holidays

- In-person team in San Francisco with a collaborative, high-energy environment