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Tessl

Technical Staff Member – Research Engineer, Harness Engineering, Agentic Orchestration

Tessl

Research Engineer focusing on AI coding agents at Tessl. Engage with customers, design evaluations, and drive improvements in agent performance.

Posted 5/28/2026full-timeLondon • 🇬🇧 United KingdomLeadWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Sit in on a customer session, understand how their agents are failing, design an eval that captures it, and drive a fix through to shipped improvement.
  • Close a piece of the outer loop end to end: production signal in, dataset out, eval scored, harness change shipped, metric moved.
  • Own a slice of our eval infrastructure: dataset curation, harness configuration, runner, analysis, and the comms back to engineering.
  • Prototype a new harness or context configuration and measure whether it actually moves the needle on real customer tasks.
  • Dig through pages of agent traces, build the tooling you need to make sense of them, and brief the team on what you found.
  • Partner with product and engineering on near-term shipping problems by bringing research rigour.
  • Pull a recent paper apart, work out what's actually transferable to our platform, and turn it into a concrete experiment.

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 4+ years shipping AI/ML products in a startup or applied industry setting
  • Demonstrated depth in at least one of the four skill areas above
  • Strong product and customer instincts: comfort joining customer calls, watching session recordings, and letting real workflows shape what you work on
  • Sharp evaluation judgement: benchmarks where they exist, vibes and quick prototypes where they don't, and the taste to know which is appropriate
  • Experience building datasets for evaluation or training
  • Deeply curious about agents and excited about reshaping how software is built.
  • Nice to have: A Masters or PhD in a relevant computational field
  • Direct experience with coding agents or code-generation systems
  • Background in RL, bandits, or other outer-loop optimisation frameworks applied to LLMs
  • Experience building synthetic data, dataset infrastructure, or internal tooling that other engineers actually used
  • A project you can show us (GitHub links welcome) and a thoughtful answer to *"Why Tessl?"*

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Health insurance extending to partners and dependents
  • Pension contributions
  • Regular team lunches
  • Drinks and socials

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Hard Skills & Tools
AI productsML productsdataset curationharness configurationevaluationdata analysiscoding agentscode-generation systemsbuilding synthetic dataouter-loop optimization
Soft Skills
customer instinctsevaluation judgementcuriositycollaborationcommunication
Certifications
Masters in computational fieldPhD in computational field