ABOUT METAFORMS
Market research runs on 30-year-old survey platforms and armies of specialists hand-coding questionnaires in proprietary languages. Metaforms is the agent layer that does that work. Every survey is a program — full of skip logic, piping, quotas, and loops — and a single wrong number in a client report is unrecoverable. Our AI agents write production survey code, QA live deployments, process and clean large structured datasets, configure analysis, and generate client-ready reports, so agencies like Dynata, Savanta, and Borderless Access ship more projects with far less friction.
- 1,000+ surveys processed monthly
- Serving Fortune 500 companies across the globe
- Rapid month-over-month growth
We’re Series A funded and scaling fast, aggressively growing our AI engineering team to build the next generation of production-grade AI agent systems.
THE ROLE
We’re hiring a Senior AI Engineer to own the design, development, and continuous improvement of the AI agent systems that power modern research operations.
This is a high-ownership, high-impact role at the intersection of applied AI and systems engineering. You’ll work on genuinely hard problems: agent reliability at scale, long-context handling, cascading error mitigation, and evaluation infrastructure — like codegen agents that write in proprietary DSLs, computer-use agents that QA live deployments, data agents that clean tabular exports and configure multi-step analysis, and evals for outputs where “correct” is genuinely ambiguous. And you’ll do it on a team that ships fast and treats quality as non-negotiable.
WHAT YOU’LL OWN
AGENT HARNESS AND ARCHITECTURE
- Own the agent harness our production agents run on — the loop where agents plan, use tools, check their work, and recover from failures
- Lead research and implementation for long-context handling and cascading-error challenges in multi-step agent pipelines
- Drive context engineering strategy and experimentation frameworks across the team
EVALUATION AND PRODUCTION MONITORING
- Define structured rubrics for evaluating AI outputs on nuanced, ambiguous research tasks
- Build continuous monitoring, tracing, and failure-mode analysis for agents in production — including the loop that turns production failures into test cases
- Create tooling that lets domain experts refine and evolve the skill files, eval sets, and knowledge bases our agents consume
RELIABILITY FOR HIGH-STAKES OUTPUTS
- Build eval suites — regression sets, golden datasets, LLM-as-judge pipelines — that catch regressions before deploy
- Develop evaluation datasets for DSLs, structured data transforms, and computed outputs to systematically find and close model weaknesses
- Design human-in-the-loop and review workflows for outputs where a single wrong number in a client report is unrecoverable
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR
MUST-HAVE
- Built and operated agentic systems in production — multi-step pipelines, tool use, codegen, computer-use, or data and reporting agents — not just prototypes
- 4+ years of engineering experience, with at least 1 year focused on LLM/agent systems in production
- Deep hands-on experience with frontier model APIs (Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini), evaluation frameworks, and AI system optimization
- Strong Python skills; Go or TypeScript a plus
- Solid grasp of context engineering and evaluation methodology
- Strong instincts for debugging complex, non-deterministic system failures
- High ownership: you drive problems to resolution independently and pull others in when it matters
NICE TO HAVE
- Experience with LLM observability and eval tooling (Braintrust, Langfuse, LangSmith, Weave, promptfoo, or in-house equivalents)
- Background in semantic parsing, DSLs, or structured-output generation
- Prior work on computer-use or browser agents
- Experience with human-in-the-loop agent workflows where proposals are reviewed before apply, or agents over large structured datasets
WHY METAFORMS
- Work at the frontier of production AI: systems handling 1,000+ research projects a month, with the reliability bar that implies
- A small, senior team where your decisions carry real architectural weight
- Zero-bureaucracy culture: high autonomy, fast feedback loops, direct access to leadership
- Well-funded and financially stable, with a clear roadmap and the runway to execute on it
BENEFITS
- Full family health insurance
- $1,000 USD annual learning and development budget
- Dedicated mentor and coaching support
- Free snacks and dinner at the office