Staff Software Engineer – Grafana Ops, AI/ML, Mid-Level (Remote)

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Job Summary:

Grafana Labs is a remote-first, open-source powerhouse known for its popular visualization tool used globally. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Agentic Applications to design and implement evaluation frameworks for Generative AI systems, focusing on automated evaluation pipelines and metrics development.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement robust evaluation frameworks for GenAI and LLM-based systems, including golden test sets, regression tracking, LLM-as-judge methods, and structured output verification.

• Develop tooling to enable automated, low-friction evaluation of model outputs, prompts, and agent behaviors.

• Define and refine metrics for both structure and semantics, ensuring alignment with realistic use cases and operational constraints.

• Lead the development of dataset management processes and guide teams across Grafana in best practices for GenAI evaluation.

Qualifications:

Required:

• Experience designing and implementing evaluation frameworks for AI/ML systems.

• Familiarity with prompt engineering, structured output evaluation, and context-window management in LLM systems.

• High autonomy to collaborate and translate team goals into clear, testable criteria supported by effective tooling.

Preferred:

• Experience working in environments with rapid iteration and experimental development.

• A pragmatic mindset that values reproducibility, developer experience, and thoughtful trade-offs when scaling GenAI systems.

• A passion for minimizing human toil and building AI systems that actively support engineers.

Company:

Grafana Labs is an open-source software platform built to support monitoring, visualization, and metric analytics. Founded in 2014, the company is headquartered in New York, New York, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage. Grafana Labs has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships.