Drimva

Starburst

AI Agent Engineer

$180K–$225K

United States · Full-time · Posted Sep 22, 2026

Experience
5+ years building AI/ML systems, with at least 1 year shipping agentic or LLM-powered systems in production.

About the job

Build and operate reliable production AI agents that answer natural-language questions with accurate, grounded responses based on users’ data.

What you'll do

  • Design agent architectures and ship production features from design through deployment.
  • Improve agent reliability for messy data and build evaluation, observability, fallback, and guardrail systems.
  • Integrate grounding and retrieval into agent workflows and measure gains in completion, accuracy, and time-to-value.

What they ask for

  • 5+ years building AI/ML systems, including at least 1 year shipping agentic or LLM-powered systems in production.
  • Direct experience at an AI startup or AI-focused product team; excludes consulting, integration, or agency work.
  • Hands-on experience with agent frameworks and production RAG pipelines.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals and a track record of frequent releases and iteration based on user feedback.

Nice to have

  • Experience with enterprise data systems or evaluation and observability pipelines for agentic systems.
  • Familiarity with JVM-based systems, open-source agent tooling, or function calling and context window management.

Pay

$180,000 — $225,000 USD (salary range; may include variable compensation)

Tools

LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, Semantic Kernel

AI focus

Production agent engineering, including orchestration, planning, memory, multi-step reasoning, error recovery, RAG, grounding, evaluation, and reliability.

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First seen Oct 10, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)