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Senior Software Engineer, Cortex Quality
$200K–$270K
US-CA-Menlo Park · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 31, 2026
- Experience
- 6+ years of experience shipping software in production, including AI/LLM features.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, or a related field; Master’s or higher preferred but not a requirement.
About the job
Own the quality, efficiency, and production reliability of Cortex Code by measuring agent performance, improving its behavior, and shipping data-driven changes.
What you'll do
- Build evaluation systems, analyze agent failures, and run experiments to improve quality metrics.
- Reduce cost and latency while maintaining quality; debug production issues and add regression tests.
- Develop data pipelines and assess frontier models to guide product behavior and model selection.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, or a related field.
- 6+ years shipping software in production, including AI/LLM features.
- Fluency in at least one of Python, TypeScript, or Go, and willingness to work across all three.
- Ability to design reliable evaluations and debug complex real-world failures.
Nice to have
- Master’s degree or higher.
- Experience with agentic coding tools, evaluation harnesses, LLM observability, safety/guardrails, data-centric fields, or large-scale datasets and production logs.
Pay
$200K – $270K (base salary)
Tools
Python, TypeScript, Go
AI focus
Build and evaluate coding agents; improve agent behavior, quality, cost, latency, and production reliability; assess frontier models.
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