Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The Cypress Group is seeking an early AI engineer to build systems that make high-stakes decisions and improve continuously based on real-world outcomes. The role involves owning the AI development process end-to-end, including defining, designing, and shipping production code without a predefined roadmap.
Responsibilities
- Build systems where decisions → outcomes → automatic improvement
- Develop recommendation / decisioning systems that learn from real-world feedback
- Design evaluation frameworks and simulations
- Fine-tune and deploy models using proprietary data
- Build agents that automate complex workflows
- Own everything from data → model → production
Skills
- Proven experience building closed-loop systems in production (non-negotiable)
- Background in RL, recommendation systems, or adaptive learning systems
- Strong end-to-end ownership (data, models, deployment)
- Proficient in Python + modern AI stack (LLMs, embeddings, etc.)
- Comfortable in fast-moving, ambiguous environments
- Built AI systems that improved from real user or system feedback
- Early-stage or product-focused experience
- Experience with sequential decision-making (e.g., marketplaces, robotics, optimization)
Company Overview
The Cypress Group is a recruiting firm that supplies professionals with expertise in various areas like software engineering and DevOps. It was founded in 2002, and is headquartered in New York, New York, USA, with a workforce of 11-50 employees. Its website is https://cypressg.com/.