Senior/Staff Software Engineer (AI Agents)

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior/Staff Software Engineer (AI Agents)

• Focus: Building next-generation AI-powered agent platforms for customer-facing applications

Description

Own and deliver AI agent experiences end-to-end, including backend orchestration, LLM integrations, conversational interfaces, tool execution, and evaluation systems.

Design scalable architectures for agentic AI systems and contribute to platform-level AI infrastructure.

Improve quality through experimentation and evaluation, and lead high-impact cross-functional initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Deliver AI agent experiences end-to-end (orchestration, LLM integrations, conversational interfaces, tool execution, evaluation)

• Design scalable architectures for agentic AI systems and build platform-level AI infrastructure

• Build shared systems such as tool abstractions, RAG/retrieval pipelines, conversation persistence, evaluation frameworks, permissioning, and observability

• Collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering to define technical direction and product strategy

• Make engineering tradeoffs across latency, reliability, scalability, and cost

• Improve AI system quality through experimentation and continuous iteration

• Lead or contribute to large-scale technical initiatives across multiple teams

• Mentor engineers and promote engineering best practices

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience

• Proven experience shipping production-grade AI/LLM-powered applications or agentic systems

• Backend expertise using Node.js and TypeScript

• Experience designing scalable distributed systems, microservices, and backend infrastructure

• Hands-on experience with tool calling, prompt engineering, agent loops, and AI orchestration frameworks

• Experience with evaluation and observability tooling for non-deterministic AI systems (e.g., LangSmith or Braintrust or custom evaluation frameworks)

• Full-stack experience with React and TypeScript

• Strong understanding of PostgreSQL and MongoDB

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with cross-functional teams

• Ownership mentality and ability to operate independently in ambiguous environments

Benefits

• Competitive base salary ($210K–$230K DOE)

• Competitive equity package

• Fully remote work environment

• Opportunity for significant technical ownership building cutting-edge AI products

• High-impact role in a rapidly growing engineering organization