Cline
Senior Agent Software Engineer
$200K–$300K
San Francisco · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jul 23, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of software engineering experience; meaningful tech lead, staff-level, or engineering management experience.
About the job
Build and improve Cline’s agent platform, including runtime, orchestration, tools, evaluations, and user-facing capabilities for completing complex tasks.
What you'll do
- Develop agent workflows and reliable systems for tool use, context management, execution, and recovery.
- Improve agent quality using evaluations, benchmarks, traces, feedback, and production debugging.
- Lead technical initiatives and build model-agnostic systems for routing, inference, caching, streaming, and optimization.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, with meaningful tech lead, staff-level, or engineering management experience.
- Strong product engineering background building user-facing features across frontend and backend systems.
- Experience with TypeScript/Node.js, Python, Go, Rust, or similar production languages.
- Familiarity with LLM patterns and direct experience using AI coding assistants and/or building agent systems.
Nice to have
- Experience with open-weight models, local inference, model providers, or model routing systems.
- Experience building agents, SDKs, CLIs, developer tools, automation systems, or open-source infrastructure; familiarity with sandboxed execution, MCP, language servers, AST tooling, Git internals, or CI/CD.
Pay
$200,000 - $300,000 USD base salary
Tools
TypeScript/Node.js, Python, Go, Rust, MCP, CI/CD
AI focus
Build AI agent systems and workflows, including planning, tool use, context management, evaluation, model routing, inference, and cost/performance optimization.
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