Clay Labs

Software Engineer, Applied AI

Clay Labs
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4 hours ago
New York, NY, USAMid Level
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$170k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and iterate on AI agent behavior across real go-to-market workflows.
  • Map manual multi-step workflows into agent-driven flows and take them from prototype through beta to general availability.
  • Build evaluations that measure task completion, identify regressions, and expose failure modes.
  • Analyze production failures and improve agent robustness, reliability, and safety.
  • Build agent harnesses, memory systems, tool infrastructure, retrieval architecture, guardrails, and cross-surface evaluation frameworks.
  • Improve agent performance through prompting, tool-use design, context construction, and feedback from production usage and logs.
  • Support teams building specialized variants of the managed agent.

Requirements

  • Experience building or shipping production systems with LLMs or agents, including areas such as prompting, tool-use design, agent orchestration, retrieval, structured extraction, or fine-tuning.
  • Strong backend fundamentals in APIs, databases, and distributed systems.
  • Experience designing model or agent evaluations, measuring regressions, or converting qualitative quality questions into measurable signals.
  • Ability to debug messy real-world failures and iterate quickly with a systems-and-outcomes mindset.