Member of Technical Staff (Agents)
Location: Toronto (Office)
On-site | Full-time
Compensation: $140K - $240K
Our client is a high-growth, open-source infrastructure provider dedicated to the advancement of AI agents and web-based applications. By developing sophisticated browser infrastructure, the organization enables developers to deploy AI products that interact seamlessly with the web via a proprietary Sessions API.
Following a period of exponential growth in 2025 driven by a robust open-source community and word-of-mouth adoption, our client is expanding its talent-dense team. This role offers the opportunity to shape the future of human-internet interaction by building the frameworks, developer tools, and benchmarks that make autonomous web browsing possible for AI.
The Role: Member of Technical Staff (Applied AI)
The Senior Applied AI Engineer will play a pivotal role in defining how AI agents navigate the web. This individual will focus on building open-source frameworks and high-impact demos, while simultaneously refining the developer experience to ensure the platform remains indispensable for AI engineers.
Key Responsibilities
- Framework Development: Build and maintain open-source tools and libraries that simplify the integration of AI agents with browser environments.
- Performance Benchmarking: Design and implement evaluation frameworks to measure the reliability and efficiency of browser-based AI tasks.
- Product Iteration: Move fluidly between frontend, backend, and model integration to ship full-stack features end-to-end.
- Technical Advocacy: Produce high-quality technical documentation and posts that unpack complex engineering challenges and learnings.
- Customer Collaboration: Act as a technical partner for early adopters to ensure successful implementation of the platform's infrastructure.
Requirements
- Engineering Excellence: 4+ years of experience writing high-quality, production-grade code.
- AI-Native Workflow: A heavy user of AI agents within a day-to-day coding environment.
- Full-Stack Capability: Proven experience shipping product features from design through to model integration.
- Developer Focus: A strong interest in developer tooling and clear opinions on developer ergonomics and API design.
- Communication: Exceptional technical writing skills and the ability to communicate complex concepts clearly.
- Product Sense: Strong intuition for product-market fit and the ability to prioritize features that drive developer value.
- Autonomy: The ability to thrive in a self-directed, highly autonomous work environment.
Benefits
- Compensation Range: $140,000 – $240,000
- Health & Wellness: Comprehensive health and dental insurance for employees and their families.
- Equipment: A brand-new, premium laptop and workstation setup.
- Professional Growth: Participation in regular team events and off-sites.
- Lifestyle: Gym membership subsidies to support physical well-being.
- Interview Process
- The following stages outline the standard evaluation process for this position:
- Initial Screening: A 30-minute introductory call with a Co-Founder.
- Leadership Interview: A technical and strategic discussion with the CEO.
- Technical Assessment: A coding-centric interview conducted by a Founding Engineer.
- Final Stage: A full-day onsite session to meet the broader team and dive deep into technical challenges.
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Skills
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Basics
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- Experience: 4+ years of engineering experience with a track record of shipping production AI agents (e.g., web scraping, form filling, research automation).
- AI Literacy: Deep understanding of current LLMs, frameworks, and techniques. You can evaluate tradeoffs between models quickly.
- Tech Stack: Strong proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript and Python. Experience with React, Node.js, and browser-level automation is a major plus.
- Open Source: You are "open-source native"—you’ve contributed to or maintained OSS projects and understand how to build community around code.
- Communication: You enjoy teaching others. You are comfortable writing blog posts, recording demos, and engaging with the developer community.
- Mindset: You ship in months, not years. You are comfortable with a high-intensity startup environment and love owning things end-to-end.
- Experience as a founder or early employee at an AI-first company.
- An active presence in AI/ML communities (X, GitHub, Discord).
- Experience building developer tools that gained significant community adoption.
Written answers (1)
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