
Research Engineer – Agent Systems & AI Coding Environment (Seed Infra Platform)
About the role
About the Team:
The Seed Infrastructures team oversees the distributed training, reinforcement learning framework, high-performance inference, and heterogeneous hardware compilation technologies for AI foundation models.
Responsibilities:
- Build agent harness and execution environments for AI coding and knowledge tasks (code execution, tool integration, sandboxing, system interaction)
- Develop scalable orchestration frameworks for multi-step agent workflows (planning, tool use, memory, coordination)
- Design evaluation and benchmarking systems to measure agent performance across complex, long-horizon tasks
- Improve agent performance via prompting, data curation, and post-training in collaboration with model and RL teams
- Partner with research and product teams to productionize agent systems
Requirements:
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Minimum Qualifications
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Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science or a related field
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Strong programming skills (Python or similar) and solid system-building experience
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Experience with LLM-based systems, pipelines, or tool-integrated workflows
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Understanding of system design and building scalable infrastructure
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Experience building agent harness / runtime systems or AI coding environments
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Experience with Docker, Kubernetes or similar orchestration systems, distributed job execution, and containerized/sandboxed code execution environments
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Preferred Qualifications
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Familiarity with evaluation frameworks, prompting / finetuning / RL, or large-scale experimentation
Required skills
Machine learning
Model evaluation
Data workflows
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