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Staff Research Engineer – RRI Harness

Sequen · United States · Remote

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Drive continuous revenue lift with Sequen. Discover how our self-improving recursive intelligence layer powers in-session personalization for the world. Backed by Threshold Ventures.

About the role

The harness is the runtime at the heart of RRI. It runs the agent team for hours or days, on GPUs inside our clients' own clouds or on Sequen-hosted instances. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

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Sequen builds Recursive Ranking Intelligence (RRI): an autonomous research engine in which a team of AI agents does the work of an ML research team, autonomously or together with ML researchers, in our clients' own clouds or on Sequen-hosted instances. The models RRI produces serve production traffic for the world's largest retailers, marketplaces and travel platforms, alongside Sequen's ranking platform, which runs frontier ranking models in production at sub-25ms latency and enterprise scale. Each gain compounds into revenue and margin lift measured in hundreds of millions of dollars per customer.

We are a small, highly technical, early-stage team turning recent advances in AI into production systems that operate under unforgiving real-world constraints.

The harness is the runtime at the heart of RRI. It runs the agent team for hours or days, on GPUs inside our clients' own clouds or on Sequen-hosted instances.

We're looking for a Staff Research Engineer to own the harness and contribute to applied research on how RRI's agents work. This is a research engineering role: you will form hypotheses about agent behaviour, run experiments to test them, and ship what works. You will...

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