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Senior Software Engineer, Applied AI
$160K–$220K
Houston, Texas (preferred), or the San Francisco Bay Area +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 18, 2026
- Location
- Houston, Texas (preferred), or the San Francisco Bay Area
Houston, Texas, United States - Experience
- 6+ years of relevant professional software engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated experience building and shipping production systems.
About the job
Architects, builds, deploys, and operates production AI agent products and workflows across backend, full-stack, data, and infrastructure systems.
What you'll do
- Own end-to-end architecture and implementation of production agentic products and workflows.
- Build services, APIs, applications, data architecture, and integrations that support reliable agentic workflows.
- Establish production engineering patterns for orchestration, retrieval, workflow state, security, observability, and failure recovery.
What they ask for
- Production experience architecting, building, shipping, and operating AI agent applications, products, or workflows.
- Strong backend and full-stack engineering skills, including services, APIs, databases, and web applications.
- Strong programming skills in Python and at least one of TypeScript/JavaScript or Go.
- Strong knowledge of distributed systems, databases, cloud infrastructure, production operations, and LLM/agent systems.
Nice to have
- Experience with MCP, LangGraph, LangChain, LlamaIndex, or equivalent frameworks; or Temporal or another durable workflow engine.
- Experience with RAG, retrieval and evaluation practices, or technical leadership; autonomous systems, logistics, robotics, or mission-critical domains are a plus.
Pay
$160,000–$220,000 USD annual base salary (California candidates)
Tools
Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, Go, MCP, LangGraph, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Temporal
AI focus
Build and operate production-grade AI agentic products and workflows, including orchestration, tool calling, context, retrieval, memory, human review, guardrails, and failure recovery.
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