Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Agentic

Our mission is to democratize finance for all. An estimated $124 trillion of assets will be inherited by younger generations in the next two decades. The largest transfer of wealth in human history. If you’re ready to be at the epicenter of this historic cultural and financial shift, keep reading.

We are building an elite team, applying frontier technologies to the world’s biggest financial problems. We’re looking for bold thinkers. Sharp problem-solvers. Builders who are wired to make an impact. Robinhood isn’t a place for complacency, it’s where ambitious people do the best work of their careers. We’re a high-performing, fast-moving team with ethics at the center of everything we do. Expectations are high, and so are the rewards.

The Agentic team at Robinhood builds and ships production AI agents that power the next generation of AI financial products. Our mission is to rapidly build, evaluate, and deploy high-performance AI agents on production-grade infrastructure, strong evaluation and observability baked in, and continuous optimization support. 

At Robinhood, we believe in the power of in-person work to accelerate progress, spark innovation, and strengthen community. Our office experience is intentional, energizing, and designed to fully support high-performing teams.

• →Translate product goals into measurable metrics and SLOs, and build a rigorous evaluation harness to continuously score agents performance
• →Develop feedback and optimization pipelines that uses both automated metrics and human-in-the-loop evaluation signals to improve agent behavior over time
• →Implement and scale optimization techniques such as Direct Preference Optimization (DPO), Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO), and reward modeling to improve agent performance.
• →Launch and support fine-tuned models in production environments with robust evaluation, rollback strategies, and performance monitoring.
• →Collaborate closely with applied AI/ML teams to translate state-of-the-art research in agentic reasoning, planning, and tool use into reliable, production-ready systems

• Strong technical expertise in software development, with understanding of agentic workflows—including reasoning loops, tool invocation, memory, and orchestration of autonomous AI agents.
• Hands-on experience using Large Language Models, including prompt engineering, fine-tuning, model distillation, and deploying optimized models (e.g. via DPO, PPO) into production environments.
• Leadership and mentorship capabilities, with a track record of guiding complex technical projects and supporting the growth of teammates through code/design reviews and technical direction.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to translate technical ideas into actionable plans and work effectively with cross-functional partners, including product and infrastructure teams.
• Innovation mindset and commitment to continuous learning and a bias toward action, staying at the forefront of ML/AI trends, agentic systems research, and best practices in tooling, safety, and evaluation.