
Staff Research Engineer
Decagon
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $350,000 - $475,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Lead research and engineering efforts to improve core conversational capabilities in production, including instruction following, retrieval, memory, and long-horizon task completion
- Build and iterate on end-to-end models and pipelines that optimize for quality, efficiency, and user experience
- Partner with platform and product engineers to integrate new models into production systems
- Break down ambiguous research ideas into clear, iterative milestones and roadmaps.
- Mentor other researchers/engineers, set technical direction, and establish best practices for applied research and engineering
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in AI/ML engineering or research.
- Prior experience post-training and deploying LLMs in production environments.
- Fluency in Python and modern ML tooling (training, evaluation, data pipelines)
- Track record of taking research ideas from prototype → reliable, measurable production impact
- Ability to define a roadmap, break ambiguity into milestones, and lead cross-functional execution
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Hard Skills & Tools
AI engineeringML engineeringLLMs deploymentPythondata pipelinesmodel optimizationend-to-end modelsproduction systemsinstruction followingtask completion
Soft Skills
mentoringtechnical directionbest practices establishmentroadmap definitioncross-functional executionbreaking ambiguityiterative milestone setting