Sequen

Research Engineer

• Define the research roadmap for recursive self-improvement and decide what ships
• Design and test exploration policies, compute allocation across parallel agents, and agents that revise their own instructions and strategy
• Turn recorded research sessions into training and evaluation signal
• Define what constitutes better research and build evaluations with the RRI team
• Make knowledge learned in one session improve subsequent sessions across tasks and clients
• Track RSI, autonomous research, and agentic LLM literature and turn promising ideas into measured experiments
• Work with applied scientists using RRI on real client problems to identify agent shortcomings
• Write code and ship successful research into systems used by clients in production
• Help grow the Recursive Self-Improvement team

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Staff Research Engineer – Recursive Self-Improvement Lead

• Build and evolve the Python multi-agent runtime, including orchestration, tool contracts, context and memory management, compaction, and model adapters across LLM providers
• Design and run experiments on agent prompting, tool design, context and memory strategies, and model choice
• Ship changes that measurably improve RRI results
• Deliver a fixed evaluation set, scorecard with measured noise bands, per-change harness evaluations, and component ablations
• Engineer resilience across GPU failures, node replacement, rolling upgrades, provider errors, and credit limits
• Build event streams, cross-session analysis, per-agent cost and token accounting, and MCP administration tooling
• Identify and reduce agent idling, looping, and excessive token usage
• Design interfaces with the Go control plane and GPU proxy owners
• Partner with applied scientists and forward-deployed engineers to diagnose and resolve production client issues
• Own the core runtime of Sequen's autonomous research engine

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