Wordware
Senior Applied AI Engineer
$180K–$240K
San Francisco · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jul 27, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years of engineering experience, including time shipping production software.
- Visa sponsorship
- Requires US work authorization; open to O-1 or J-1 visa sponsorship for exceptional candidates.
About the job
Build, operate, and scale production agent systems for Sauna, including their architecture, evaluations, and deployment.
What you'll do
- Implement multi-step agents that use real APIs and handle retries, authentication, timeouts, and edge cases.
- Design and maintain agent memory, orchestration, and evaluation systems; investigate production failures using traces.
- Set reliability standards, make and document architecture decisions, and collaborate across infrastructure, frontend, and product.
What they ask for
- 4+ years of engineering experience, including shipping production software.
- Built and deployed agent-like systems and operated at least one in production, making and explaining its architecture decisions.
- Hands-on experience with agent orchestration and memory management, tool use and orchestration, and evaluation.
- Writes production-grade code and can work across systems without needing a spec.
Nice to have
- Shipped customer-facing agents; familiarity with LLM ops, tracing, observability, and failure handling.
- Founder or early engineer experience, or experience mentoring or leading engineers.
Pay
$180K–$240K USD base salary
Tools
LLM
AI focus
Build and scale production AI agent systems, including multi-step tool use, persistent memory, agent evaluation, and production reliability.
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