Senior Staff Frontier Agents Engineer

$288k - $360k • Remote • San Francisco, CA; New York, NY

Posted 7d ago

Remote Work Policy

Fully remote

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AI Agent Engineer

About the job

As a Senior Staff Frontier Agents Engineer, you will be the technical bridge between Scale AI's advanced AI capabilities and our most strategic enterprise customers. This role involves understanding customer challenges, architecting custom AI solutions, and ensuring successful deployment and adoption of AI systems in production. You will work hands-on with customer engineering teams to integrate AI into their critical workflows, combining deep engineering expertise with customer-facing problem-solving.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with enterprise customers to understand their technical infrastructure, data pipelines, and business requirements.
  • Design and implement custom integrations between Scale AI's platform and customer data environments.
  • Build data connectors and ETL pipelines to ingest, process, and prepare customer data for AI workflows.
  • Deploy and configure AI models and agents within customer security and compliance boundaries.
  • Develop production-grade AI agents tailored to customer use cases across various domains.
  • Architect multi-agent systems that orchestrate between different models, tools, and data sources.
  • Implement evaluation frameworks to measure agent performance and iterate toward business objectives.
  • Design human-in-the-loop workflows and feedback mechanisms for continuous agent improvement.
  • Create sophisticated prompt engineering strategies optimized for customer-specific domains and data.
  • Build and maintain prompt libraries, templates, and best practices.
  • Conduct systematic prompt experimentation and A/B testing to improve model outputs.
  • Implement RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) systems and fine-tuning pipelines.
  • Serve as the primary technical point of contact for strategic enterprise accounts.
  • Collaborate with customer data scientists, ML engineers, and software developers.
  • Provide technical training and knowledge transfer to customer teams.
  • Work closely with Scale's product and engineering teams to translate customer needs into product improvements.
  • Document technical architectures, integration patterns, and best practices.
  • Debug complex technical issues across the entire stack.
  • Rapidly prototype solutions to unblock customers and prove out new use cases.
  • Stay current on the latest AI/ML research and tools.
  • Identify opportunities for productization based on common customer patterns.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of software engineering experience with strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and system design.
  • Production Python expertise with experience in modern ML/AI frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex, HuggingFace, OpenAI API).
  • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and modern data infrastructure.
  • Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to navigate ambiguous requirements and rapidly iterate toward solutions.
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

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