Senior Software Engineer, AI Evals
San Francisco, CA - USA
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Job Summary
About Sentry
Software runs the world and the pace is faster than ever. Sentry helps developers fix errors and performance issues before users notice so teams can spend less time firefighting and more time building.
Trusted by 200000 organizations Sentry is todays application monitoring standard and our team is building its AI-native future.
About the role
As a Senior Software Engineer on Sentrys AI/ML team youll be responsible for building the evaluation infrastructure that measures the accuracy reliability and real-world performance of our AI systems. This role is critical to ensuring that our debugging agents and AI-powered features behave correctly safely and predictably as they scale. Youll design datasets benchmarks and test harnesses that turn ambiguous AI behavior into measurable signals helping the team ship AI with confidence.
In this role you will
Design and build robust evaluation frameworks to measure accuracy reliability regressions and edge cases in AI systems
Create and curate high-quality datasets golden test cases and benchmarks grounded in real production data
Build automated test harnesses and metrics pipelines to continuously evaluate models prompts and agentic workflows
Partner closely with applied AI engineers and product leaders to define what good looks like and translate it into measurable criteria
Own the evaluation lifecycle for major AI initiatives from early experimentation through production monitoring
Youll love this job if you
Care deeply about correctness rigor and measurement in AI systems
Enjoy turning fuzzy product goals and model behavior into concrete tests and metrics
Like building foundational infrastructure that unlocks faster iteration and higher confidence for the entire AI team
Thrive in cross-functional environments and enjoy influencing model design through better evaluation
Qualifications
Minimum 5 years of professional experience with a Bachelors degree in computer science machine learning or a related field
Experience building testing evaluation or data infrastructure for complex systems (AI/ML experience strongly preferred)
Comfort writing production-quality code (we use Python and TypeScript)
Experience working with structured and unstructured datasets labeling workflows or data quality pipelines
Familiarity with modern ML systems and evaluation techniques (e.g. offline metrics online evaluation regression testing for models or prompts)
Bonus: experience evaluating LLMs agentic systems or AI-assisted developer tools
The base salary range (or hourly wage range if applicable) that Sentry reasonably expects to pay for this position is $240000 to $280000 USD. A successful candidates actual base salary (or hourly wage) amount will be determined by a variety of relevant factors including without limitation the candidates work location education work and other relevant experience skills and job-related knowledge. A successful candidate will be eligible to participate in Sentrys employee benefit plans/programs applicable to the candidates position (including incentive compensation equity grants paid time off and group health insurance coverage). See Sentry Benefits for more details about the Companys benefit plans/programs.
Equal Opportunity at Sentry
Sentry is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to its employees and candidates for employment regardless of race color ancestry religion sex national origin sexual orientation age citizenship marital status disability gender identity veteran status or other legally-protected characteristic. This commitment includes the provision of reasonable accommodations to employees and candidates for employment with physical or mental disabilities who require such accommodations in order to (a) perform the essential functions of their jobs or (b) seek employment with Sentry. We strive to build a diverse team with an inclusive culture where every teammate can thrive. Sentry is an open-source company because we believe that everyone everywhere should have the ability and tools to make great software. Software should be accessible. That starts with making our industry accessible.
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