Staff AI Research Software Engineer

Turn cutting-edge AI research into functional MVPs with model development, evaluation, and production deployment at SandboxAQ.

As a founding engineer on the SAIGE team, this Staff Machine Learning Engineer bridges research and software engineering. You will rapidly test potential solutions using LQMs and emerging agentic frameworks. Collaboration with AI researchers, product managers, software engineers, and user experience researchers supports tangible outcomes across SandboxAQ.

Key Responsibilities:

• Prototype and evaluate potential model solutions rapidly
• Build and validate novel ML models and algorithms
• Clean, transform, and engineer complex datasets
• Study model failure modes and production performance
• Collaborate on technical ML deployment roadmaps

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant experience
• Eight or more years of postgraduate software development experience
• Full ML lifecycle experience from exploration to deployment
• Python expertise across the modern ML stack
• Technical leadership across complex, cross-collaborative environments

Shape AI-first products through research translation, model experimentation, and autonomous technical execution with SandboxAQ’s SAIGE team.