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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