8090 Factory
Engineering Lead - Agents
$150K
Redwood City · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 9, 2026
- Visa sponsorship
- Does not provide new work visa sponsorship; candidates must provide documentation establishing U.S. employment eligibility.
About the job
Leads the technical direction, hands-on engineering, and team execution for a Software Factory agent that builds dependable customer-facing software capabilities.
What you'll do
- Own agent architecture and tradeoffs across orchestration, context, retrieval, tools, memory, and execution environments.
- Plan and deliver agent capabilities with product management while writing and reviewing production code and mentoring engineers.
- Improve production performance and safety through observability, evaluation, recovery, and collaboration on deployment controls.
What they ask for
- Track record shipping production agents with sustained high-volume usage and measurable customer impact.
- Deep practical expertise in LLM-based agent systems, including orchestration, context engineering, tool integration, memory, model selection, and evaluation.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and ability to build, debug, and operate complex production systems.
- Technical leadership and mentorship, with clear communication and effective collaboration with product and engineering partners.
Nice to have
- Experience building coding agents or browser/computer-use agents for complex tasks across tools and environments.
- Enterprise agent deployment experience, familiarity with post-training and reinforcement learning.
Pay
$150,000 - $1M annual salary (base salary)
Tools
LLM, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
AI focus
Build and lead production LLM agents, including multi-agent orchestration, coding and computer-use capabilities, evaluation, reliability, and safe deployment.
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