Research Engineer

Reposted 2 Months Ago
San Francisco, CA, USA
In-Office
Junior
Artificial Intelligence • Software
The Role
Design and implement AI-driven systems, collaborating with teams to apply AI research and address software product challenges.
Summary Generated by Built In
About Factory

Our mission is to create a world where software builds and improves itself.
We build the platform for self-improving software development, helping the world's largest enterprise engineering teams turn their organizations into autonomous software factories. Customers including Nvidia, Blackstone, Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), Palo Alto Networks, Adobe, and T-Mobile run Factory to ship code, review PRs, run tests, and deploy continuously - getting smarter with every cycle.
In 2026, we raised $200M at a $5B valuation, bringing our total funding to over $400M. We are backed by world-class investors and operators including Khosla Ventures, Sequoia, Blackstone, Ali Ghodsi (CEO of Databricks), and Frank Slootman (Former CEO of Snowflake).

About the Role

Factory is seeking innovative Research Engineers to design and integrate advanced AI and ML capabilities that revolutionize productivity and accelerate innovation within software organizations.

What you will do and achieve
  • Design, develop, and deploy AI-driven agentic systems that enhance Factory’s core AI capabilities, focusing on retrieval systems, code generation evaluation, agentic user experience development, and agent backend architecture.

  • Collaborate with product and engineering teams to incorporate emerging AI research findings into practical, customer-centric solutions.

  • Engage in iterative development processes, rapidly prototyping and refining AI functionalities based on real-world feedback to meet the evolving needs of developers and enterprises

  • Take the initiative in identifying and addressing product stability and scalability challenges, ensuring our platform reliably support large-scale operational demands

Qualifications
  • 2+ years of hands-on experience in AI/ML engineering roles post-acquisition of a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, AI, or a related technical field.

  • Demonstrated proficiency with LLMs and a track record of applying AI/ML techniques to solve complex, unstructured problems, ideally within the domain of software engineering or related areas.

  • Self-motivated and autonomous, with a proven ability to navigate ambiguous research projects from conception to impactful deployment.

  • Strong communication skills that enable you to articulate technical concepts and strategies clearly at all levels, coupled with a strategic mindset oriented towards innovation.

  • Experience with data-intensive applications and familiarity with the software development lifecycle are highly desirable, though not mandatory.

This is an in-office position (5 days/week) in San Francisco (walking distance to Caltrain)

Skills Required

  • 2+ years of hands-on experience in AI/ML engineering roles
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, AI
  • Demonstrated proficiency with LLMs
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The Company
HQ: Bethlehem, PA
125 Employees
Year Founded: 2023

What We Do

Factory is an AI company, backed by Sequoia and Lux, bringing autonomy to software engineering

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