About the Role
We are building the self-driving insurer: a national carrier whose standard operating procedure is explicit, instrumented, and handed to agents one proven step at a time. This role owns the runtime, contracts, and eval framework that every agentic capability at Stand is built on.
Responsibilities
- Define and implement the skill-and-eval contract, running end-to-end for one real vertical.
- Ensure decision capture is live from day one, providing transparent, actionable results to underwriters.
- Build an opinionated platform for agent deployment and lifecycle management.
- Provide the engineering team with a unified, scalable way to ship new capabilities.
- Develop a high-throughput orchestration engine designed to manage agents and evaluations at scale.
- Coordinate complex, multi-agent workflows.
- Manage dependencies.
- Automate fleet-wide health monitoring.
- Ensure consistent performance across the entire agentic ecosystem.
- Work at the seam between the surface people use (Flow), the operating map underneath it (Rails & Trails), and the shared platform services below that (the Substrate).
- Partner closely with Applied Science, who are training their own models that this harness can leverage.
Requirements
- Proven experience shipping agentic systems into production environments where reliability is critical.
- Demonstrated track record of building tools or frameworks for engineering teams.
- Proficiency in designing and managing evaluation frameworks.
- Hands-on experience building Model Context Protocol (MCP) implementations.
- Experience managing prompts and skills in production environments.
- Familiarity with authorization frameworks and best practices.
- Comfort and experience in product discovery.
- Experience in insurance or another regulated operational domain.
- Learning from logged human decisions: Transform unstructured operator event data into preference datasets for fine-tuning and reward modeling.
- Built internal tooling for agentic software development — sandboxed environments, fast worktrees, anonymized production data for testing, agents that verify their own changes.
- Enough frontend range (React/Next.js) to prototype the queue surface a skill feeds, rather than handing off a swagger doc.
- Contributions to open-source agent frameworks, eval tooling, or MCP servers.
- Experience partnering with an applied-science or research team and shipping their work into a product loop.
- Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S.
- Stand does not sponsor new work visas.
- We can consider candidates on TN visas, O-1A visas, or H-1B transfers with three years or more remaining.
Skills
- Physics
- AI
- React/Next.js
Work Type
- Full-time
Salary/Compensations
- $240,000 to $295,000 + meaningful Equity Grant
Benefits
- Above-market Health, Dental, and Vision coverage
- Weekly lunch stipend
- Flexible time off + holidays
- 401(k) plan
- Commuter benefits
- PAT & MAT Leave
- Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
- Monthly team gatherings
- In-office perks
About the Company
- At Stand, you’ll help build a new class of global property protection.
- We use advanced physics and AI to model catastrophic risk at the asset level, then automate underwriting and mitigation before loss occurs.
- Insurance is simply the current delivery mechanism. The real product is a scalable risk engine, our Stand World Model.
- We stay when traditional insurers exit. We model what others approximate. And we build systems that change outcomes, not just prices.
- Our leadership team includes former successful founders and CEOs from Metromile, PolicyGenius, WePay, and HotelTonight, bringing deep experience in building and scaling high-growth companies.
- The property insurance industry is built to price loss after it happens. It relies on coarse proxies, backward-looking data, and manual processes, then accepts damage as unavoidable.
- Stand takes a different approach. We simulate how real-world catastrophes affect individual properties, translate that into actionable decisions, and automate the business around it.
- The result is a platform that can underwrite what others can’t and operate with far less friction.
Equal Opportunity
- Stand is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
- We believe that diversity enriches the workplace, and we are committed to growing our team with the most talented and passionate people from every community.
- We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals.
- Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
