Rye is looking for a Senior/Staff AI Engineer to develop a cutting-edge browser agent for checkout automation and architect the AI systems for fault-tolerant checkout workflows. You'll work within a fast-paced, remote-first startup culture that offers significant autonomy and ownership.
What You'll Do
- Build and maintain a high-quality browser agent using advanced techniques to produce reliable and reusable automation from arbitrary ecommerce examples.
- Lead the creation and tuning of a model focused on the checkout process.
- Architect and implement the infrastructure that runs our agentic solution.
- Coordinate features across team members and systems and communicate proactively.
- Work independently and with a remote-first team.
- Keep abreast of all relevant agentic advances and be the expert in the team on AI.
What We're Looking For
- 4+ years of experience in backend/AI engineering.
- Proven professional experience building LLM or NLP applications.
- Deep understanding of related techniques: fine-tuning, multi-step reasoning agent development, text processing, semantic extraction, machine translation.
- Experience with designing evals and building tight experiment loops.
- Deep understanding of browser internals and automation techniques.
- High proficiency in Python.
- Strong understanding of best practices in software development and engineering.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work independently.
- Great technical writer.
Nice to Have
- Knowledge of fraud detection solutions in ecommerce.
Technical Stack
- Python
Team & Environment
This is a remote-first team with a base in NYC where part of the team works together a few days a week.
Benefits & Compensation
- Highly competitive salary and benefits package.
Work Mode
This is a hybrid role based in NYC.
