# Senior AI Engineer at Metaforms

> Onsite · India · Senior · ML / AI · open. Source: https://alderhq.app/jobs/ashby%3Ametaforms%3A274f033c-5328-4a15-98e3-0c75effd3f3b (read 2026-11-11).

## Facts (observed)

- Company: [Metaforms](https://alderhq.app/companies/metaforms)
- Location text: Bengaluru
- Where it can be done from (inferred): Onsite · India (evidence: "Location lists "bengaluru"")
- Posted: 2026-06-24 (141 days ago)
- First seen by alder: 2026-11-07 · last verified: 2026-11-07
- Reposted: 0 times · edited: 0 times
- Apply on the employer's site: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/metaforms/274f033c-5328-4a15-98e3-0c75effd3f3b
- Skills listed (inferred): TypeScript, Python, Go, LLMs

## Pay and sponsorship

- Posted pay: not posted
- Market band for similar posted roles (Bengaluru, n 3): p25 ₹30L, median ₹35L, p75 ₹38.8L

## Description (the employer's text)

### About Metaforms

Market research runs on 30-year-old survey platforms and armies of specialists hand-coding questionnaires in proprietary languages. Metaforms is the agent layer that does that work. Every survey is a program — full of skip logic, piping, quotas, and loops — and a single wrong number in a client report is unrecoverable. Our AI agents write production survey code, QA live deployments, process and clean large structured datasets, configure analysis, and generate client-ready reports, so agencies like Dynata, Savanta, and Borderless Access ship more projects with far less friction.

1,000+ surveys processed monthly

Serving Fortune 500 companies across the globe

Rapid month-over-month growth

We’re Series A funded and scaling fast, aggressively growing our AI engineering team to build the next generation of production-grade AI agent systems.

### The Role

We’re hiring a Senior AI Engineer to own the design, development, and continuous improvement of the AI agent systems that power modern research operations.

This is a high-ownership, high-impact role at the intersection of applied AI and systems engineering. You’ll work on genuinely hard problems: agent reliability at scale, long-context handling, cascading error mitigation, and evaluation infrastructure — like codegen agents that write in proprietary DSLs, computer-use agents that QA live deployments, data agents that clean tabular exports and configure multi-step analysis, and evals for outputs where “correct” is genuinely ambiguous. And you’ll do it on a team that ships fast and treats quality as non-negotiable.

### What You’ll Own

### Agent Harness and Architecture

Own the agent harness our production agents run on — the loop where agents plan, use tools, check their work, and recover from failures

Lead research and implementation for long-context handling and cascading-error challenges in multi-step agent pipelines

Drive context engineering strategy and experimentation frameworks across the team

### Evaluation and Production Monitoring

Define structured rubrics for evaluating AI outputs on nuanced, ambiguous research tasks

Build continuous monitoring, tracing, and failure-mode analysis for agents in production — including the loop that turns production failures into test cases

Create tooling that lets domain experts refine and evolve the skill files, eval sets, and knowledge bases our agents consume

### Reliability for High-Stakes Outputs

Build eval suites — regression sets, golden datasets, LLM-as-judge pipelines — that catch regressions before deploy

Develop evaluation datasets for DSLs, structured data transforms, and computed outputs to systematically find and close model weaknesses

Design human-in-the-loop and review workflows for outputs where a single wrong number in a client report is unrecoverable

### What We’re Looking For

### Must-Have

Built and operated agentic systems in production — multi-step pipelines, tool use, codegen, computer-use, or data and reporting agents — not just prototypes

4+ years of engineering experience, with at least 1 year focused on LLM/agent systems in production

Deep hands-on experience with frontier model APIs (Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini), evaluation frameworks, and AI system optimization

Strong Python skills; Go or TypeScript a plus

Solid grasp of context engineering and evaluation methodology

Strong instincts for debugging complex, non-deterministic system failures

High ownership: you drive problems to resolution independently and pull others in when it matters

### Nice to Have

Experience with LLM observability and eval tooling (Braintrust, Langfuse, LangSmith, Weave, promptfoo, or in-house equivalents)

Background in semantic parsing, DSLs, or structured-output generation

Prior work on computer-use or browser agents

Experience with human-in-the-loop agent workflows where proposals are reviewed before apply, or agents over large structured datasets

### Why Metaforms

Work at the frontier of production AI: systems handling 1,000+ research projects a month, with the reliability bar that implies

A small, senior team where your decisions carry real architectural weight

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