Staff Software Engineer, Agent Quality
Sunnyvale, CA, USA · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 30, 2026
- Experience
- 8 years in software development; 5 years testing and launching software products; 3 years in software design and architecture; 5 years leading ML design and optimization; 2 years with GenAI techniques or related concepts; 2 years building Generative AI applications, Agentic workflows, and GenAI quality evaluation.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Leads engineering for enterprise AI agents, building agent capabilities and evaluation systems to improve accuracy, safety, and performance.
What you'll do
- Define engineering standards and release gates for response accuracy, safety, and brand alignment.
- Build multimodal agents and automated systems for building, testing, and refining agents.
- Integrate Gemini and Vertex AI into enterprise infrastructure and improve model performance through evaluation and data-driven analysis.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in software development; 5 years testing and launching software products; and 3 years in software design and architecture.
- 5 years leading ML design and optimizing end-to-end Machine Learning; 2 years with GenAI techniques or related concepts.
- 2 years building Generative AI applications, Agentic workflows, and GenAI quality evaluation.
Nice to have
- Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
- 8 years with data structures and algorithms; 3 years in technical leadership; 3 years in a complex, matrixed organization.
Pay
$207000 - $300000 USD base salary
Tools
Gemini, Vertex AI, LLMs, multi-modal, large vision models
AI focus
Builds multimodal and enterprise agents, agent-building and evaluation systems, and improves model performance, prompts, and hallucination rates.
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