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SandboxAQ is a high-growth AI company spun out from Alphabet in 2022, delivering Large Quantitative Models (LQMs) that power advances in life sciences, financial services, navigation, cybersecurity, and other sectors. The company is backed by leading growth capital investors and operates as a global, tech-focused team of AI experts, chemists, cybersecurity specialists, physicists, mathematicians, and engineers.
The AI team is seeking an AI Engineer to help build the future of agentic collaboration, trust, and ROI. The role focuses on three core areas: (1) Security—discovery, evaluation, red teaming, monitoring, and guardrails for agents; (2) Quality—measuring agent ROI and suggesting improvements; (3) Collaboration—bringing humans and agents together with shared context.
This is a hands-on position at the intersection of AI and software engineering. You will create new agentic capabilities, build frameworks for monitoring and guardrailing agents, perform classical ML tasks (exploratory data analysis, feature engineering, model fine-tuning), and translate AI research into production features. You'll work closely with Product and Research teams, rapidly iterate on prototypes, contribute production-ready code, and stay current with the latest agentic developments. The role involves breaking things, fixing them, and hardening them for production—with freedom to explore, collaborate, publish, and deploy.
You'll be part of a diverse team of ML experts, security specialists, mathematicians, and software engineers working on cutting-edge technologies.
**Requirements:**
- MSc in Computer Science or related field with exposure to AI/ML (PhD in Computer Science or related field with focus on AI/ML is highly desired)
- Deep expertise in AI/ML, software engineering, or AI security
- Strong programming skills in Python and relevant ML and/or agentic frameworks
- Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally with high degree of end-to-end ownership, delivering real-world outcomes
- Ability to pick up other programming languages and technologies as required to ship scalable and reliable software
**Highly Desired:**
- Hands-on experience with at least one of: agent orchestration, agent harnesses, agent teams, jailbreaking/prompt injection, red teaming, data poisoning or evasion attacks, secure model deployment or sandboxing, detection and monitoring for AI misuse
- Experience contributing to open source projects
- Experience in a fast-paced startup environment
- Cybersecurity experience (a plus, not essential)
