Scale AI
Senior Frontier Agents Engineer (Forward Deployed Engineering)
$216K–$270K
San Francisco, CA +2 · Senior · Full-time · Posted May 15, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
New York, New York, United States
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 5+ years of software engineering experience.
About the job
Architects, integrates, deploys, and operates production AI agents and systems for enterprise customers, translating their needs into reliable, scalable solutions.
What you'll do
- Build and deploy enterprise AI systems, agent architectures, integrations, and production infrastructure.
- Operationalize AI quality through evaluation, monitoring, observability, guardrails, and safety mechanisms.
- Advise enterprise customers, lead technical architecture discussions, and document reusable engineering practices.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of software engineering experience with distributed systems, data structures, algorithms, and system design fundamentals.
- Strong Python skills and experience building production software.
- Experience building or deploying AI applications using modern LLM APIs, agent frameworks, MCP, retrieval systems, or vector databases.
- Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP and modern production infrastructure.
Nice to have
- Experience deploying production AI agents or autonomous systems.
- Experience with cloud-native infrastructure, Docker, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, and CI/CD.
Pay
$216,000 — $270,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Python, LLM APIs, MCP, AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes
AI focus
Build and operate production AI agents and enterprise AI systems; develop agent architectures, evaluations, retrieval, guardrails, and safety mechanisms; assess and adopt emerging models and AI tooling.
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