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Hebbia

Applied Research Engineer, Agents

$160K–$300K

NYC +1 · On-site · Full-time · Posted Jul 10, 2025

Location
NYC
San Francisco
Experience
7+ years software development experience; the posting does not state an alternative.
Education
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

About the job

Develop and deploy research-informed NLP and LLM systems, experiments, and agentic capabilities across Hebbia’s products.

What you'll do

  • Run experiments and proofs of concept applying new LLM and NLP techniques to customer problems.
  • Develop, validate, and deploy data-driven models and algorithms, integrating agentic capabilities into production systems.
  • Collaborate across teams to improve NLP/LLM capabilities and ensure systems are efficient, maintainable, and monitored.

What they ask for

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
  • 7+ years software development experience at a venture-backed startup or top technology firm, focused on applied machine learning systems.
  • Strong programming skills in Python; experience with NLP and text processing libraries such as NLTK, SpaCy, or Apache Tika.
  • Experience with Search and Indexing technologies, foundational models and APIs, and developing NLP models and systems.

Nice to have

  • Master’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Machine Learning, or a related field.
  • Experience building agentic systems or LLM-enabled products; prompting and building LLM applications and agents is also a plus.

Pay

$160,000 to $300,000 (base salary)

Tools

Python, NLTK, SpaCy, Apache Tika

AI focus

Applied NLP and LLM research and engineering, including LLM evaluation, agentic systems, foundation-model experimentation, and production AI applications.

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