Member of Technical Staff (New Grad)
Company websiteambral.com (Ambral, opens in new tab)
Base salary $140K to $175K
Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range in New York, NY +1 more
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- LocationNew York, NY +1 more
- WorkplaceOn-site
- Status at last checkSource accepting applications when checked
- Last checked (2 h ago) · observed since
All places named
- New York, NY
- San Francisco, CA
About this job
What we do
Ambral helps enterprises own the intelligence behind their most important workflows.
Every company has years of historical evidence showing how work gets done: the context people had, the decisions they made, the actions they took, and the outcomes that followed. Today, most of that history is inert. It isn’t structured in a way that companies can use to evaluate models and improve agent behavior.
Ambral turns this history into replayable environments and eval sets grounded in real workflows and observed outcomes. We use those environments to improve model performance through reinforcement learning and other post-training techniques, alongside context engineering, harness design, and agent engineering.
The result is better, more cost-efficient AI for each enterprise’s specific work, powered by open-weight models that the company owns and controls. This allows each company to retain ownership of its core workflow intelligence instead of outsourcing it to a model provider.
We graduated from YC S2025, raised millions in funding, and are already deployed within multi-billion dollar enterprises. Now we're growing the founding team.
What you’ll do
We’re building a replayable environment engine over real enterprise history.
The system reconstructs a company’s context as it existed at any past time, then exposes that state through the same tools an agent would use in production. This lets us place new policies and agent configurations inside real historical environments, observe how they reason and act, and grade their performance against real outcomes.
You’ll help build the infrastructure and work hands-on with customers to turn their real enterprise data into a scalable, continuous model-improvement system. The core problems include:
Forward deploying with our customers to understand their tasks and data
Developing the environment factory that converts recorded enterprise data and task definitions into runnable environments
Designing graders to turn ambiguous business objectives into verifiable rewards
Developing methods for mining useful tasks, trajectories, and evaluation cases from historical workflows
Experimenting with learning objectives and task design
Creating eval sets that are representative, reproducible, and resistant to overfitting
Finding the right combinations of models, tools, context, and policies to maximize performance while reducing inference cost
Building replay and observability systems that make agent behavior explainable and measurable
These problems are wide open. You’ll have significant ownership over the production systems that make it real.
You’ll work directly with the CTO, deploy into real enterprise workflows, and see your implementations tested against consequential problems and observable outcomes.
Who you are
You have experience building production-grade software (internships are ok) or in a quant role
You write strong software and can build systems that process large, messy datasets at scale
You have great intuition about systems, abstraction, and data structures
You’re comfortable turning fuzzy business objectives into tasks and signals that can be evaluated reliably
You can diagnose whether a model’s limitations come from the model itself, its context, its tools, its harness, or its training
You can move between research questions and production implementation without treating them as separate jobs
You care about reproducibility, observability, and understanding why a model behaves the way it does
You’re looking to do the best work of your life and build something you’ll be proud of for decades
We care much more about what you’ve built and how you think than credentials or conventional career paths.
Benefits
Significant equity and ownership
Equinox membership
Free meals, coffee, and snacks
Health insurance
Unlimited PTO
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Pay in context
This role's base floor ($140,000) is above 19% of the 1,203 Software Engineering roles in New York listed on this site; 42 others list the same floor. Their median floor is $175,000; the middle half runs from $145,000 to $200,000.
Only jobs on this site count, and each one publishes a base salary of $100,000 or more, so this compares six-figure jobs with each other, not with the whole market. Computed Nov 8, 2026.
This listingMember of Technical Staff (New Grad)$140K to $175K
Head of Research$250K to $400K
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| Role | Published base |
|---|---|
| Member of Technical Staff (New Grad) (this listing) | $140K - $175K |
| Head of Research | $250K - $400K |
Observed changes
- Began meeting the published-salary criteria
- First observed on the employer's board
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- Observed since
- Employer-stated posting date
- 2026-08-17
Where this pay comes from
Location as the employer wrote it: New York • San Francisco
USD 140,000 – 175,000 · 1 YEAR · Salary
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