Scale AI
Senior Staff Frontier Agents Engineer
$288K–$360K
San Francisco, CA +3 · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted May 15, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
New York, NY
New York, New York, United States
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 12+ years of software engineering experience.
About the job
Build and deploy customer-specific AI integrations, agents, and data workflows, working directly with enterprise customers and their engineering teams.
What you'll do
- Design and implement integrations, data connectors, and ETL pipelines; deploy AI models and agents in customer environments.
- Develop production AI agents and multi-agent systems, with evaluation, human feedback, prompt optimization, and RAG where appropriate.
- Lead technical collaboration with strategic customers, resolve complex issues, and share customer needs and best practices with Scale teams.
What they ask for
- 12+ years of software engineering experience.
- Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and system design.
- Production Python expertise and experience with modern ML/AI frameworks.
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and modern data infrastructure.
Nice to have
- Experience building and deploying AI agents or autonomous systems in production; understanding of LLMs, prompting, embeddings, and RAG.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or Bicep.
Pay
$288,000 — $360,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Python, LangChain, LlamaIndex, HuggingFace, OpenAI API, AWS, GCP, Azure
AI focus
Develop and deploy production AI agents, multi-agent systems, RAG and fine-tuning pipelines, and evaluation and feedback workflows for customer use cases.
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