MTS - Research

Interaction • Palo Alto, CA

5d

About The Position

We are seeking engineers for our AI agent platform, Poke.com, which is experiencing rapid scaling. The core engineering team has built the platform from scratch, and now we need individuals to harden our infrastructure while maintaining feature velocity. We value technical depth, craftsmanship, and the ability to build collaboratively. Our team comprises individuals with backgrounds from top institutions and companies, but we prioritize practical building experience.

Requirements

• Technical depth.
• Obsession with your craft.
• Ability to build alongside the team.
• Experience building systems.
• Rigor under pressure; ability to move between infra, product, and debugging.
• Ability to stabilize systems while shipping features.
• Platform thinking; designing primitives, not one-off features.
• Low ego; willingness to tackle any important problem.
• Ownership.
• Technical depth.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in Typescript and Python (though not a deal-breaker if lacking experience in these specific languages).

Responsibilities

• Harden infrastructure without slowing down feature velocity.
• Navigate the whole stack as a T-shaped engineer.
• Specialize in one or more of the following areas: Scale & Infra (high-concurrency, low-latency, distributed state), Product (prototyping, shipping, iterating on agentic workflows), Extensibility & DevTools (APIs, SDKs, primitives), AI Runtime & Evals (tool use, model selection, output quality), or Post-Training & Alignment (SFT, preference optimization, reward modeling, synthetic data generation, eval design).
• Design primitives and solutions that solve current needs and enable future use cases.
• Take ownership and demonstrate technical depth.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed