Muck Rack is trusted by thousands of organizations around the world to understand how their brands show up across news, social media and AI-generated answers.
Our AI-powered platform connects the entire PR workflow in one place, helping communications teams manage media relationships, understand the conversations shaping their brands, take action and measure their impact. Combined with analyst-led Media Intelligence and advisory services, Muck Rack turns signals into insights and insights into action.
Founder-controlled and growing profitably and sustainably, we have the freedom to build forward-thinking products, put our customers first, and offer an inclusive culture that welcomes diverse perspectives.
Our Agents team at Muck Rack is building AI for PR and communications professionals. Our first agent helps customers understand their media coverage. Next, we’re building agents that can plan and carry out multi-step workflows.
You’ll take features from idea to production, working across our Python agent runtime, MCP server, and Django/Vue application. You’ll help decide how the technology works, ship it to real customers, and learn from how they use it.
You’ll help shape what we build next and how we build it. You’ll work with new models, solve real customer problems, and take your ideas from experiment to production. If you want to build agents people actually rely on, we’d like to meet you.
What You'll Do- Build agents that take action. Build tools, prompts, guardrails, and multi-turn workflows with memory. Help agents know when to act, ask a question, or hand off to a human
- Ship the full experience. Build in-product chat, streaming responses, permission-aware APIs, and our external MCP server
- Make quality measurable. Build evals, catch regressions, and use production feedback to improve quality, latency, and cost
- Help shape the platform. Make decisions about how we build, deploy, and run agents as the product grows
- 7+ years building production software
- Fluent Python skills, including async programming and experience with FastAPI, FastMCP, or Django
- Experience shipping LLM-powered features or agents to real customers including exposing tools via MCP
- A practical understanding of prompting, tool use, context management, and where models go wrong
- Experience measuring AI quality and using what you learn to improve it
- Strong API and tool design skills, including authentication and authorization
- Proactively incorporates AI tools into day-to-day work to improve productivity and accelerate delivery
- Working-hour overlap with US time zones (Eastern preferred)
- Agent frameworks such as Pydantic AI, LangGraph, or the OpenAI Agents SDK
- MCP servers and LLM tooling
- AI evaluation tools and methods, including DeepEval and LLM-as-judge
- Streaming UIs, server-sent events, and Vue.js
- Experience with LLM observability
- AI security, including prompt injection defenses and tenant isolation
Below you'll find an outline of the interview plan for this role. Please note that this is what we expect the process to look like; we may ask you for supplemental information or require an additional step before making a final decision.
- 30-minute interview with a member of our Talent Team
- A 1 hour zoom interview with the hiring manager
- Peer interviews with several team members
- 30-minute Executive Interview
- 30-minute Bar Raiser
This role requires up to 10% travel for team collaboration, customer engagements, and company events. As part of our commitment to building strong connections across our fully distributed team, attendance at our annual company offsite (typically held in Mexico) is expected.
Salary- The anticipated salary range for this role in Ireland is €95,000–€110,000 annually, depending on experience.
- The anticipated salary range for this role in United Kingdom is £105,000–£115,000 annually, depending on experience.
- The anticipated salary for this role in Bulgaria is €6,500+ gross per month, depending on experience.
Remote Work, Forever
- Fully distributed team with a permanent remote setup
- Home office stipend, phone and internet reimbursement, coworking membership
- Virtual and in-person team bonding (lunches, events, competitions)
Transparent & Fair Compensation
- Competitive geo-neutral pay in the U.S.
- Annual reviews to ensure equity and market alignment
- Standardized bonus or commission structure
- 401(k) with employer contributions
- Equity opportunities
Health & Wellness
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance for employees and dependents
- 100% premium coverage for individuals on high-deductible plans
- 24/7 Virtual Care and Employee Assistance Program
- Employer-funded HSA contributions and other pre-tax benefits
- Quarterly wellness stipend and free Headspace subscription
Time Off & Family Benefits
- 4+ weeks of PTO, plus paid sick and mental health days
- 13 paid holidays with the option to swap for personal days
- Up to 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave
Learning and Development
- Transparent pathways for internal mobility and promotion
- Bi-annual performance reviews, team workshops, and leadership training
- Unlimited access to Coursera and O’Reilly
- 2 additional PTO days annually for learning and development
Inclusive, Customer-First Culture
- Commitment to equity and valuing diverse perspectives
- Agile, founder-led company focused on collaboration and innovation
- Trusted by 3,000+ companies worldwide
Note: Benefits and compensation reflect offerings for U.S.-based employees. Support is provided for employees in other locations, in compliance with local laws and regulations.
While we are a fully distributed team, we do have limitations on where we can hire and maintain a list of acceptable working locations based on job function. If we are unable to hire in your current location for the role for which you applied, you will be notified via email. While we enjoy many benefits as a permanently distributed and remote company, we cannot always support relocation or extended travel and have guidelines in place to ensure compliant work away from your designated permanent residence.
Skills Required
- 7+ years building production software
- Fluent Python skills, including asynchronous programming
- Experience with FastAPI, FastMCP, or Django
- Experience shipping LLM-powered features or agents to real customers
- Experience exposing tools via MCP
- Practical understanding of prompting, tool use, context management, and model limitations
- Experience measuring AI quality and using results to improve it
- Strong API and tool design skills, including authentication and authorization
- Proactive use of AI tools to improve productivity and delivery
- Working-hour overlap with US time zones, Eastern preferred
- Experience with agent frameworks such as Pydantic AI, LangGraph, or OpenAI Agents SDK
- Experience with MCP servers and LLM tooling
- Experience with AI evaluation tools and methods, including DeepEval and LLM-as-judge
- Experience with streaming UIs, server-sent events, and Vue.js
- Experience with LLM observability
- Experience with AI security, prompt injection defenses, and tenant isolation
Muck Rack Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Muck Rack and has not been reviewed or approved by Muck Rack.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is positioned as an extended, off‑the‑grid vacation period plus sick/mental‑health days and company holidays, with a clear norm to fully disconnect during PTO. Feedback suggests this structure supports genuine downtime and work/life balance.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Perks include a full work‑from‑home setup, monthly phone/internet reimbursement, coworking support, a wellness stipend, and Headspace access. These offerings align with a remote‑first model and add day‑to‑day value.
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Retirement Support — The package includes an automatic employer 401(k) contribution, not just a match. This baseline support strengthens overall financial benefits regardless of employee contributions.
Muck Rack Insights
What We Do
Muck Rack is the leading provider of AI-powered PR software built for how brands and agencies work. The only platform powered by intuitive AI technology and the most accurate, comprehensive data provided by journalists themselves, Muck Rack combines media database, traditional and social media monitoring and reporting for seamless team collaboration, pitching and measurement. Purpose-built for communications and public relations, Muck Rack helps nearly 6,000 companies worldwide analyze and report on the impact of their media relations. Thousands of journalists use Muck Rack’s free tools to showcase their portfolios, analyze news about any topic and measure the impact of their stories. Learn more at muckrack.com.
Why Work With Us
Founder-controlled and growing quickly but sustainably, we have the freedom to build forward-thinking products, put our customers first, and offer an inclusive culture that welcomes diverse perspectives. We enjoy the flexibility to work where we’re most productive and stay connected no matter where we’re located.
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