Inflection AI
Staff Engineer, Agentic
$350K–$500K
Palo Alto, California, United States · Staff · Full-time · Posted May 12, 2026
- Experience
- 10-15 years of backend engineering experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a related field to the offered position requirements.
- Visa sponsorship
- Support of country-specific visa needs for international employees living in the Bay Area.
About the job
Owns the platforms and production systems that power agentic conversational AI, from backend workflows to reliable, scalable inference and feature delivery.
What you'll do
- Build backend systems for agentic workflows, including orchestration, memory, retrieval, and tool integrations.
- Operate inference and conversation pipelines and optimize latency, cost, quality, and reliability.
- Build internal engineering platforms and partner across research and product teams to take features from prototype to production.
What they ask for
- 10-15 years of backend engineering experience shipping production systems in cloud environments.
- Production experience building, shipping, and operating agentic AI systems with real user impact.
- Strong production experience with Python, Postgres, Redis, a major cloud (AWS, GCP, or Azure), containers, and Kubernetes.
- Practical experience with LLM application patterns, including RAG, tool use, and evaluation loops.
Nice to have
- Experience with agent orchestration frameworks and evaluation tooling.
- Background in streaming, queueing, or vector data infrastructure at scale; customer-facing on-call ownership or open-source contributions are also noted.
Pay
$350,000 to $500,000 annual base salary
Tools
Python, Postgres, Redis, AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, LangGraph
AI focus
Build and operate production agentic AI systems and conversational AI, applying RAG, tool use, evaluation loops, orchestration, memory, and retrieval.
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