# Member of Technical Staff - Agent Engineer at Phylo

- Company: Phylo
- What the company does: Phylo is an applied research lab dedicated to studying agentic intelligence to accelerate discoveries for every biomedical scientist. Backed by a16z.
- Company website: https://phylo.bio
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: South San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $200K to $300K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-07-22
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/phylo/fd68f3cc-def2-4944-b339-01cf1e962e63
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/phylo-member-of-technical-staff-agent-engineer/

## About the role

We’re looking for an engineer with research or production experience in AI agents to build and evaluate systems that make our agents capable, reliable, and measurably better.

## What they're looking for

- Strong software engineering experience building production backend systems, infrastructure, or distributed systems
- Research or production experience in machine learning, or another quantitative discipline
- Familiarity with LLM APIs, tool calling, agent runtimes, or workflow orchestration
- Strong quantitative judgment and the ability to determine whether an apparent improvement is real, reproducible, and meaningful
- Ability to move between research questions, data analysis, system design, and production implementation
- Experience or strong interest in AI for science, scientific agents, computational research, or automated scientific discovery

Tags: Technical Staff