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Senior Frontier Agents Engineer (Applied AI)
$216K–$270K
San Francisco, CA +2 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jul 31, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
New York, New York, United States
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 5+ years of software engineering, machine learning, or applied AI experience.
About the job
Designs, evaluates, and deploys production AI agents and enterprise AI systems, working with customers to turn business problems into reliable solutions.
What you'll do
- Build and deploy AI agents, retrieval and memory systems, and multi-agent workflows for enterprise use.
- Design experiments and evaluation frameworks, and improve systems using model comparisons and real-world feedback.
- Partner with enterprise customers to prototype, deploy, and scale AI solutions in production.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of software engineering, machine learning, or applied AI experience.
- Strong Python programming skills and understanding of machine learning fundamentals and modern language models.
- Experience building production AI systems using LLMs and modern AI tooling.
- Experience quantitatively designing or evaluating AI systems; excellent communication skills and ability to work directly with enterprise customers.
Nice to have
- Experience building production AI agents and designing evaluation frameworks for LLMs or agentic systems.
- Experience with RAG, cloud platforms, distributed systems, or production observability.
Pay
$216,000 — $270,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Python, OpenAI, Claude, MCP, AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker
AI focus
Applied AI focused on production agents, reasoning, retrieval, memory, tool use, experimentation, evaluation, and enterprise deployment.
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