Experience:

• 5-6+ years of engineering experience
• Strong applied AI and backend depth
• Real-world experience building and shipping AI applications in production
• Comfort working directly with enterprise customers in ambiguous, high-stakes environments
• Strong systems thinking
• High ownership mentality
• Strong communication skills

Responsibilities:

• Embed directly with enterprise customers as part of a small deployment team
• Develop deep understanding of customer business and workflows
• Define AI-driven solutions based on real business needs
• Build and deploy production-grade agents tailored to specific customer use cases
• Own end-to-end delivery
• Design and run evals to measure agent performance
• Iterate and improve results until performance moves
• Become a domain expert in the customer's vertical
• Work closely with Product and Platform engineers to ship cohesive, reliable solutions
• Establish engineering best practices, agent patterns, and reusable frameworks
• Surface insights from deployments that inform the platform and product roadmap

Nice to have:

• Background at a company with a forward deployment or field engineering model
• Experience building multi-agent systems in production
• Domain expertise in a specific enterprise vertical such as recruiting, finance, ops, or legal
• Familiarity with enterprise security requirements, VPC deployments, or on-prem configurations
• History of building evals infrastructure or AI quality measurement tooling

More skills:

AI performance measurement, enterprise customers, production-grade agents, Product, Platform engineering, engineering best practices, agent patterns, reusable frameworks, enterprise security requirements, VPC deployments, evals infrastructure

Other:

• Employment type: Full time
• Department: Engineering
• Compensation: $205K – $300K
• Cash compensation ranges are shared for transparency and vary by geographic location, candidate experience, and expertise
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• 401(k) match, competitive compensation, financial coaching
• Paid parental leave, fertility benefits, parental coaching
• Medical, dental, vision, mental health support, $500 wellness stipend
• $2,000 learning stipend and ongoing development
• Internet, commuting, and free lunch/gym in the SF office
• Flexible PTO, 15 holidays, and 2 flex days
• Team outings and referral bonuses
• Benefits listed are for full-time US employees