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Klaviyo

Lead Engineer, Applied AI (Customer Agent)

$176K–$264K

Boston, MA +1 · Full-time · Posted Oct 8, 2026

Location
Boston, MA
Boston, Massachusetts, United States

About the job

Leads the technical and product direction of a core Customer Agent area, building and operating production agentic AI systems while remaining hands-on with engineering.

What you'll do

  • Set architecture and product direction, and build and ship the system through production.
  • Solve agent orchestration, evaluation, guardrail, memory, context, and reliability challenges.
  • Write and review code, establish reusable engineering patterns, mentor through design reviews, and partner across product and technical teams.

What they ask for

  • Built, scaled, and supported production agentic systems through launch and ongoing operations, including orchestration, evaluations, guardrails, and handling non-deterministic failures.
  • Owned technical and product direction for a significant area and shipped work adopted by other engineers.
  • Hands-on coding, architecture review, and production debugging experience.
  • Able to communicate technical trade-offs and turn ambiguous problems into plans.

Nice to have

  • Experience with production-scale multi-tenant agent platforms.
  • Experience with 0-to-1 products, production evaluation systems, AI observability, or human-in-the-loop workflows for LLM-powered products.

Pay

$176,000 — $264,000 USD (base salary)

AI focus

Build and operate a production conversational AI customer-support agent; lead work on orchestration, evaluation, guardrails, memory and context, reliability, and responsible deployment.

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First seen Oct 27, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)