AI Research Engineer
Spot Hunting USA
- Location
- Remote (United States)
- Employment
- Full-time
- Level
- Senior Level
About the Role
Spot Hunting USA is recruiting an AI Research Engineer to advance reliable AI agents in production. The role involves developing core learning algorithms for evaluation, optimization, and continual improvement while managing the full research-to-production lifecycle.
Skills
Perks
- Stock options
- Visa transfer support
- Remote work
Full job details
About the Role
We’re looking for an exceptional AI Research Engineer to help advance the frontier of reliable AI agents in production.
This is a deeply technical, hands-on role at the intersection of applied AI research and engineering. You’ll work on the core learning algorithms behind AI agent evaluation, optimization, robustness, and continual improvement — taking ideas from research and experimentation all the way into production-facing systems.
This is an ideal opportunity for someone who understands AI agents deeply and wants significant ownership in an early-stage environment.
What You’ll Do
* Develop and improve AI methods and algorithms for reliable AI agents.
* Design approaches for agent simulation, evaluation, optimization, and continual learning.
* Build systems for systematically measuring and improving agent behavior.
* Move through the complete research/engineering loop: design → implement → experiment → evaluate → improve → repeat.
* Experiment across datasets, benchmarks, and real-world agent environments.
* Turn research ideas into working prototypes and production capabilities.
* Collaborate closely with AI, engineering, and product leadership.
* Contribute original ideas and challenge existing technical approaches.
Strong hands-on expertise with AI Agents / Agentic AI.
* Demonstrated experience evaluating, improving, or optimizing AI agent behavior.
* Strong Python, AI/ML, and LLM experience.
* Applied AI research or product-oriented research experience.
* Ability to turn research and experiments into working systems.
* Experience in an early-stage startup, small technical team, early AI/ML team, or first-ML-hire environment.
* Comfortable operating with significant technical ownership and autonomy.
Fully remote within the U.S. or Canada, approximately 1% equity with meaningful early-stage upside, visa transfer support including eligible OPT and H-1B transfers, significant ownership as an early AI research hire, direct collaboration with experienced AI researchers, engineers, and founders, opportunity to work on frontier AI agent evaluation, optimization, and continual learning, high-impact work on real-world enterprise applications, and the opportunity to directly influence the company’s AI research and technical direction.