Emergence AI
AI Engineer
$180K–$250K
Irvine, CA +1 · Full-time · Posted Aug 19, 2026
- Location
- Irvine, CA
Irvine, California, United States - Experience
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience building production software.
About the job
Build and ship customer-facing capabilities for an enterprise AI agent platform, turning complex business problems into reliable production AI systems.
What you'll do
- Develop agent platform features, including orchestration, workflows, memory, governance, and enterprise integrations.
- Build trustworthy AI systems and enterprise data capabilities, including evaluation, verification, observability, and context for agent reasoning.
- Work with customers and internal teams to deliver production solutions and turn customer-specific workflows into reusable platform capabilities.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience building production software.
- Use Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or similar AI development tools as part of the daily engineering workflow.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals in areas such as backend services, APIs, distributed systems, cloud applications, or developer platforms.
- Experience building and shipping software used by real customers in production environments.
Nice to have
- Experience with AI agents, LLMs, RAG, tool calling, memory systems, or multi-agent orchestration.
- Experience integrating enterprise data sources or working with cloud-native platforms, Kubernetes, observability, or distributed tracing.
Pay
$180K - $250K (currency and pay basis not stated)
Tools
Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Rust, Go, TypeScript, Python, Kubernetes
AI focus
Build enterprise AI agents and workflows, including agent orchestration, evaluation, verification, context and memory, governance, and multi-agent coordination.
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