Must Have 7+ years building distributed, large scale systems (or equivalent depth) - you've shipped production software, not just prototypes. Hands-on with AI/ML systems - you've built something real with LLMs, embeddings, RAG, or agent frameworks (LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen,, or similar). You understand prompt engineering, context windows, token economics, evaluation, agentic protocols (MCP, A2A and alike), and failure modes. Strong practical experience as a software engineer - you know how to write modular and clean code. Independent Starter - you can independently produce demos and prototypes from scratch. With a clear sense of where shipping begins. Judgment under ambiguity - you can take a hard, open question and come back with a working prototype and data. You'll kill your own project when the evidence says it doesn't work, and you'll be proud of what you learned. Strong
