Applied AI Engineer
Magic PatternsSan Francisco, CAposted 12h ago
- PayUSD / yr
- $160k – 260k
- Where
- San Francisco, CA
- Posted
- Oct 28
- 12 hours ago
- Type
- Full-time
- Setup
- On-site
At a glance
Own evals and improvement loops for Magic Patterns’ AI design agent, pushing model quality through agent development, context engineering, post-training, and novel evaluation methods.
Summarized by AI from the original posting
What you'll do
- Own the evaluation system feeding the self-improving agent loop
- Push the limits of AI capabilities in design
- Collaborate with product to improve agent quality
- Prioritize work to improve the AI design agent
Requirements
- 01Experience with AI models and/or AI agents
- 02Experience building eval systems, post-training, or context engineering
- 03Strong first-principles thinking
Perks
Skills
Full description
Hey, I’m Teddy, CTO & co-founder at Magic Patterns! Our engineering team has grown a lot over the last few months here in San Francisco. you can check out our careers page here: https://www.magicpatterns.com/careers
About Magic Patterns
Our mission is to let anyone build delightful software. We're a lean team where everyone contributes directly to the product.
If you’re an AI engineer, our roadmap is probably a goldmine of things you’ve always wanted to work on:
- An AI agent that thousands of users use religiously everyday
- Evals with a self-improving agent loop
- Context engineering
- Post-training on design output
The most common piece of feedback we get is "I tried a bunch of tools but your design quality output is by far the best." We want to push the limits even further.
About this role
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Own our eval system that feeds into our self-improving agent loop
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Push and define the limits of what AI can do in design. Today, we are state of the art, and we want to continue to push that.
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Collaborate with the product team to bring novel solutions to improve agent quality from the perspective of our users
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Decide what to work on to improve our AI Design agent. The list above are open problems, not assignments
This role might be a fit if you...
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Use AI tools in your daily workflow
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Have experience with AI models and/or have worked on an AI agent before
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Have experience building eval systems, post-training, context engineering
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Strong first-principles thinker that can distill complex problems
Our Values
- Obsessive — we love exploring every corner of the hardest problems.
- Growth-minded — where you are today matters less than how fast you are growing
- Ownership — insist on high standards and craftsmanship.
- Spread the magic — for many people, Magic Patterns is “magic.” Be proud of your work and have fun!
Compensation and benefits:
- Rapid career growth at one of the fastest growing Series A companies
- Competitive salary and equity package
- 20 days off PTO
- Health, dental, and vision coverage
- Fun team offsites and events — we went to Mexico last year!
About Magic Patterns
Magic Patterns is a building the future of product design.
We're a design tool used by teams to iterate on ideas, get user feedback, and deploy to a website. We raised a Series A, enjoy shipping fast, and love enterprise sales.
We're looking for people who are obsessed about building really good products.
Compensation: $160K - $260K
Skills: LLMs
Experience: 1+ years