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ZendeskPosted 1 month ago

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

RemoteMelbourne, Victoria, Australia

Full TimeSenior LevelLarge

Job Summary

Architect fault-tolerant, multi-tenant agent runtimes featuring incremental execution, state persistence, and automated recovery for long-running workflows. Design high-throughput memory infrastructures supporting working, episodic, semantic, and procedural tiers with strict ACID transactions. Implement zero-trust execution validation and Row-Level Security to isolate tenant contexts within shared infrastructure pools. Drive adoption of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) by building secure servers and clients for dynamic tool discovery and Agent-to-Agent collaboration. Establish telemetry to trace agent actions, enforce rate limits, and optimize compute cost-per-token. Partner with AI Scientists to define technical direction for the platform's digital nervous system using Go, Java, or Python, leveraging event-sourcing and Kafka for distributed state management.

Required Qualifications

  • Staff-level architect
  • Extensive backend experience (Java, Go, or Python)
  • Deeply understand the nuances of managing distributed state
  • Deeply understand event-driven architectures (Kafka)
  • Deeply understand non-deterministic execution in cloud environments
  • Understand reliability in an AI system
  • Understand externalizing state
  • Understand safe self-correction
  • Understand deterministic recovery
  • Excited by open standards like MCP
  • Understand extreme complexities of API design
  • Understand capability negotiation
  • Understand secure sandboxing for tool execution
  • Advanced durable execution frameworks
  • Event-sourcing orchestration
  • High-throughput in-memory datastores
  • Converged databases
  • Vector stores
  • Postgres
  • Kafka
  • MCP (Model Context Protocol)
  • gRPC
  • GraphQL
  • Zero-trust execution validation
  • Native Row-Level Security within the database layer

Desired Qualifications

  • Infinite context windows

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