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Founding Research Engineer, Applied AI

Agentio· Engineering
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New York, NYFull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Research Engineer role focused on applied AI/ML to advance Agentio's platform for creator advertising, spanning research and production with emphasis on multimodal intelligence, ranking/recommendation, foundation models, and learning/decision-making.

Responsibilities

  • Own research problems from problem definition and experimentation through production.
  • Evaluate relevant AI and ML methods against Agentio's data, build rigorous experiments and evaluations, and measure performance in production.
  • Develop models, algorithms, training approaches, or datasets when existing techniques aren't sufficient. Work with engineering and product to ship successful approaches.
  • Help set Agentio's research agenda and technical standards for applied ML.

Qualifications

  • Demonstrated experience conducting applied ML research, with original work shown through production ML systems, publications, open-source research, or comparable contributions.
  • A PhD or advanced degree in ML, AI, computer science, statistics, or a related field is useful but not required.
  • Depth in foundation models, multimodal learning, recommendation and ranking, representation learning, reinforcement learning and decision-making, causal inference, optimization, or adjacent fields.
  • Ability to turn ambiguous product problems into tractable research questions, run rigorous experiments, and translate successful approaches into production systems.
  • Strong engineering skills and experience taking ML work beyond prototypes.
  • Strong knowledge of current AI research and the judgment to determine which methods are useful in practice.

Benefits

  • Flexible PTO – Take the time needed to recharge
  • Comprehensive Health Coverage – Top medical plan through Aetna
  • Dental & Vision Plans – Guardian coverage
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan
  • $100 Monthly Lifestyle Credit – Use with Agentio Brand Partners
  • Daily lunches and snacks in the office
  • Dinner provided Monday - Thursday
  • Fully subsidized gold tier access on Wellhub (LifeTime, Barry's, Solidcore, Headspace, etc)
  • Gym in the building
Last updated Sep 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Agentio

The AI-Native Platform for Creator Advertising

Agentio automates campaigns end to end, enabling advertisers to scale creator programs across Meta, YouTube, and beyond in hours, not months, while connecting creators with the world's top brands.

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