Staff Engineer, Agentic
$10k - $15k • Palo Alto, California, United States
Posted 2mo ago
Job Location
Palo Alto, California, United States
Tech Stack
Remote Work Policy
On-site
Categories
AI Agent Engineer
About the job
Inflection AI is seeking a Staff Engineer, Agentic to own the platforms, systems, and services that bring conversational AI to life at scale. This role involves collaborating across research, product, and infrastructure teams to enable rapid iteration, high reliability, and secure delivery of novel AI features to millions of users. Your work will directly impact both the pace of product development and the stability of our production systems, focusing on human-centered, emotionally intelligent AI.
Responsibilities
- Design and build backend systems for agentic workflows including orchestration, memory, retrieval, and tool integrations.
- Operate high-availability inference and conversation pipelines, optimizing for latency, cost, and quality.
- Build internal platform components such as service templates, CI/CD, observability, evaluation harnesses, and rollout tooling.
- Partner with applied researchers and frontend engineers to design and iterate on user-facing features.
- Drive features from prototype to production, ensuring reliability and performance at scale with measurable user impact.
Requirements
- 10-15 years of backend engineering experience shipping production systems in cloud environments.
- Demonstrated experience building, shipping, and operating agentic AI systems in production with real user impact.
- Strong production experience with Python, Postgres, Redis, and at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including containers and Kubernetes.
- Practical experience with LLM application patterns like RAG, tool use, evaluation loops, and their associated tradeoffs.
- Strong sense of ownership and ability to independently drive systems to production and operate them reliably.
Benefits
- Meaningful equity component
- Diverse medical, dental and vision options
- 401k matching program
- Unlimited paid time off
- Parental leave and flexibility
- Support of country-specific visa needs for international employees living in the Bay Area