Trace every run. Auto-fix silent failures. Simulate before shipping. Raindrop helps you detect agent issues and prevent them from happening. Backed by Lightspeed and Y Combinator.
About the role
We’re looking for a founding Research Engineer to study how AI agents behave in production. You’ll join an early team, set the research agenda, and publish what we learn. Set Raindrop’s research agenda and run the experiments behind it. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- You make complex ideas clear through strong written and communication skills
- Care about sharing your research through publications, open-source work, or public write-ups
- Deep expertise in an area such as interpretability, evals, AI safety, anomaly detection, or representation learning
- Good judgment about which experiments are worth running and when a result is real
- You ship experiments and build prototypes
- Use and build AI agents and tools
More about this role
Raindrop is the monitoring platform for AI agents. Engineering teams at Fortune 100s and the fastest-growing AI companies (Vercel, Speak, Clay) use it to catch silent failures in production. When an agent misbehaves, Raindrop alerts the team, links to the trace, and surfaces the root cause so they can fix it fast. With Raindrop 2.0 (Self-Healing Agents) , the loop closes itself: your coding agent fixes it, and the fix becomes an eval to prevent regressions.
AI agents fail constantly in ways both hilarious and terrifying. Regular software throws exceptions. But AI agents fail silently, leaving engineers with almost no visibility into how their agents are actually performing.
The current status quo is sifting through millions of logs and trying to debug flaky evals that just aren't matching real world results. Evals are like unit tests, they confirm your model got specific test cases right. But in the real world agents call thousands of tools, run for hours, and encounter millions of unpredictable actions.
That’s where Raindrop comes in. It learns the unique shape of each AI agent’s issues. Starting from presets like Laziness, Forgetting, or Task Failure, to automatically tuning...
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