AI Agent Engineer Jobs in New York

Mirage is an AI video company focused on making creation dramatically easier by building multimodal agents that turn creative direction into edits, rendering engines that composite video and graphics, and generative video models. Our technology, including Captions (a creative workspace) and Tesseract (a video engine for AI agents), is now available more broadly through APIs. This role focuses on designing and building agentic systems that power creative workflows for short-form video, shaping how AI agents reduce friction, accelerate learning, and unlock new creative possibilities for users. You will experiment with emerging models and techniques to bring these experiences to life in production, working across product, machine-learning, and systems engineering to own problems end-to-end and help define how our agents are built and deployed.

$175k - $300k

CoreWeave

CoreWeave is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Developer Experience (DevEx) team. This team is responsible for the platform, services, and systems that empower all engineers at CoreWeave to build and ship software efficiently and reliably. The scope includes CI/build infrastructure, testing, delivery systems, artifact management, internal developer platforms, and AI tooling. This role is for a technical leader who will define the technical strategy for DevEx, address complex developer productivity challenges, and shape the future of the agentic developer platform.

$188k - $275k

CoreWeave

As an AI Engineer at CoreWeave, you will design, build, and operate systems that engineers rely on during real customer incidents. This role involves defining the balance between deterministic and AI systems, owning agent logic, retrieval mechanisms, safeguards against bad information, and performance measurement. You will have full ownership of your services from development through production, working closely with the engineers who will use your creations.

$143k - $210k

PermitFlow

PermitFlow is redefining how America builds by leveraging applied AI to tackle complex information challenges in the construction industry. Our AI agent workforce assists construction companies with permitting, licensing, inspections, and project closeouts, accelerating development across the country. We have already delivered significant improvements in speed, accuracy, and visibility for over $20B in development. As the U.S. enters a new capital expenditure supercycle, joining PermitFlow means building the AI infrastructure at the core of every construction project driving this next wave of reindustrialization. We are a well-funded, high-growth company with backing from top-tier investors and leaders in the AI and construction tech space.

$250k - $300k

Snorkel AI

Snorkel AI is seeking experienced Software Engineers at Senior/Staff levels to join their AI Platform team. This role involves building the core infrastructure and systems that power AI development at scale, focusing on synthetic data generation, evaluation, agentic workflows, simulation environments, and LLM infrastructure. You will work on systems designed to make inherently non-deterministic workloads observable, reproducible, measurable, and scalable, enabling rapid experimentation and reliable production systems for AI models and agents.

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Figma is seeking an Engineering Manager for Design Systems Adherence to lead a team focused on building workflows, tools, and feedback loops that ensure customers' design and code correctly adhere to their design systems when using Figma's Agents. This role involves enhancing context engineering for AI, improving agent architecture, and developing datasets and evaluators to measure adherence. The manager will set strategy, elevate adherence measurement standards, and translate evaluation results into actionable improvements for design quality. This is a high-impact opportunity to influence Figma's Agent capabilities and overall design quality, addressing the critical need for design and code parity and minimizing drift from defined design systems.

$258k - $376k

Snorkel AI

Snorkel AI is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer specializing in Computer Use Agents (CUA) to collaborate with leading AI organizations on their critical agentic AI projects. This role involves leading the technical execution of complex customer engagements focused on agents that interact with computers, browsers, and software to accomplish multi-step tasks. You will translate challenging product and model issues into effective task environments, datasets, and evaluation strategies to enhance agent reliability and overall performance. The position spans the entire delivery lifecycle, from initial technical discovery and solution design to implementation, evaluation, and production deployment. Additionally, you will identify common patterns across projects to develop reusable capabilities, technical standards, and product enhancements.

$180k - $320k

Decagon

Decagon is seeking a Senior/Staff Software Engineer to join the Data Lifecycle team. This team builds and maintains the critical infrastructure that governs how sensitive customer data is handled throughout its entire lifecycle, from storage and access control to redaction and deletion. The role involves designing and implementing robust systems that ensure data privacy and compliance across Decagon's conversational AI platform, which serves industry-leading enterprises. You will work closely with product management, governance, and security teams to translate complex privacy requirements into reliable infrastructure and user-configurable products. Engineers on this team own features end-to-end, ensuring the secure and consistent protection of sensitive data across various communication channels and customer systems.

$200k - $400k

Parloa

Parloa is shaping the foundation of a new era in customer experience with agentic AI, where customer support becomes meaningful exchange rather than just transactions. We have powered over one billion interactions for global enterprise brands. As Manager, Agent Architecture, you will build and lead a team that transforms customer service with AI Agents, while also staying hands-on in the build yourself. You will hire, coach, and set goals for Agent Architects, owning the quality of every AI Agent they ship, with a significant portion of your capacity dedicated to live customer engagements. This is an opportunity to lead at the forefront of enterprise AI, where credibility is earned through direct contribution alongside your team.

$160k - $200k

Scale AI

As a Forward Deployed AI Engineering Manager on the Enterprise team, you will serve as the technical bridge between Scale AI's advanced AI capabilities and strategic customers. This management role requires a blend of deep engineering and AI expertise, team leadership, and customer-facing problem-solving. You will collaborate with enterprise clients to understand their unique challenges, lead a team in architecting specific AI solutions, and ensure the successful deployment and adoption of AI systems within their production environments. You will work directly with customer engineering teams to integrate AI into their critical workflows.

$227k - $325k

Tavily is building the infrastructure layer for agentic web interaction at scale, powering Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and real-time reasoning in AI systems. They connect LLMs to high-quality, trustworthy web content, enabling developers to build intelligent and informed agents. Tavily works with innovative AI teams, from startups to large enterprises, serving as the link between LLMs and the real world.

$147k - $224k

Decagon

Decagon is a leading conversational AI platform that empowers brands to deliver exceptional customer experiences through AI agents. Our technology enables enterprises to deploy personalized and satisfying interactions across various channels. We are building a future where customer experiences are redefined, moving beyond traditional support to foster faster resolutions, richer conversations, and deeper relationships. The Product Engineering team at Decagon is responsible for building the platform that allows customers to create, operate, and enhance their AI agents, transforming complex engineering tasks into user-friendly product features. This team is crucial for scaling Decagon's impact, with the frameworks they build supporting every agent in production, ensuring reliability and robustness across diverse workflows and constraints. They also build agents directly, using production failures as opportunities to create guardrails, evaluations, and tooling that improve the platform universally.

$200k - $400k

Decagon

Decagon is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Product Engineering team. This team is responsible for building the core platform that enables customers to create, operate, and improve their AI agents. You will design and build systems that allow customers to configure, train, test, and monitor sophisticated AI agents with confidence, translating complex technical capabilities into simple, usable interfaces. You will own features end-to-end, from technical architecture through deployment and iteration, working closely with product and design to understand customer use cases and ensure the right solutions are built. This role involves building self-serve functionality, designing configuration abstractions, creating AI-powered tooling for agent workflows, and developing monitoring and analytics for agent performance.

$200k - $400k

Datadog

Datadog AI Research (DAIR) is seeking a Research Manager to lead a team focused on fundamental research in post-training and autonomous agents. This role involves advancing reinforcement learning, simulated environments, synthetic data generation, and evaluation methods for agents operating in complex real-world systems. The manager will provide technical leadership, mentor researchers and engineers, shape research direction, and collaborate with product and engineering teams to translate research into products. This position is ideal for an experienced researcher or technical leader who wants to maintain hands-on research involvement while leading a high-performing team.

$244k - $305k

LangChain is seeking a Deployed Engineer to join their team in NYC. This role focuses on building and running AI agents in production, moving beyond prototypes to create reliable systems that real teams depend on. You will work directly with customer engineering teams, co-architecting and co-building AI agents, and owning the technical win in pre-sales by designing POCs and guiding evaluations. The position involves helping customers deploy and operate agent-based applications, advising on architecture and best practices, and running technical demos and trainings. This is a hands-on, highly technical role at the intersection of engineering, product, and go-to-market, with a fast feedback loop and visible impact on how AI agents are built in the real world.

$185k - $315k

Datadog

Code Intelligence is at the intersection of agentic engineering and product, running agents against real customer source code in production. This role offers the opportunity to lead an AI-native team in a business-critical growth area, providing high visibility and leverage within the fastest-growing segment of the AI agent space. Datadog operates as a hybrid workplace, valuing office culture for collaboration and creativity while ensuring employees can achieve work-life harmony.

$192k - $240k

Mirage is seeking an ML Engineer to push the boundaries of large language models for multimodal creative tasks. You'll develop new approaches for building and extending agentic systems that understand and operate over complex, real-world data, particularly video. This role focuses on advancing agent capabilities, improving reasoning and control, and enabling new forms of interaction between language models and time-based media.

$175k - $300k

Databricks

<h1>Staff Software Engineer - Agent Quality</h1> <h4>P-1567</h4> <p>At Databricks, we are obsessed with enabling data teams to solve the world’s toughest problems, from security threat detection to cancer drug development. We do this by building and running the world’s best data and AI platform so our customers can focus on the high-value challenges that are central to their own missions.</p> <p>The Databricks AI Research organization is pushing the frontier of next-generation enterprise AI. We believe a company's data is its greatest competitive advantage, and we're building the models and agents that unlock it. Our work spans the full stack, from model training to advanced multi-agent systems.&nbsp;</p> <p>As a Staff Software Engineer - Agent Quality, you will be a founding member of a new team focused on evaluating and continuously improving Databricks' AI Agents. You will design and scale the infrastructure, tooling, and developer workflows that let researchers and engineers evaluate agents rigorously — driving a flywheel where evaluation results feed directly back into agent improvement across the full lifecycle, from development and training to production.</p> <h2>The impact you will have</h2> <ul> <li>Stand up the foundational evaluation infrastructure for Genie Agents, enabling rigorous benchmarking, regression detection, and quality measurement across research and product teams.</li> <li>Build the flywheel that connects evaluation results back into agent improvement — closing the loop between production signals, training, and iterative development.</li> <li>Shape the long-term technical direction for agent quality infrastructure, with real influence over how Databricks measures and improves its first-party agents and agent development platform.</li> <li>Help shape the long-term technical direction for agent quality infrastructure as Databricks expands its first-party agents and agent development platform.</li> </ul> <h2>What we look for</h2> <ul> <li>6+ years industry experience building software systems</li> <li>Strong Python programming skills, with experience building production or research infrastructure</li> <li>Experience building or operating distributed systems, data pipelines, or large-scale infrastructure with a focus on reliability, correctness, and operational maturity</li> <li>Ability to design pragmatic but rigorous systems that produce trustworthy, reproducible signals for complex applications</li> <li>Comfort working across ambiguous research and product boundaries, and partnering with both researchers and engineers to turn ideas into robust internal platforms</li> <li>A high bar for technical quality, strong ownership, and the ability to influence roadmap and execution across multiple teams</li> </ul> <h2>Nice to have</h2> <ul> <li>Experience with devtools, CI/CD platforms, testing frameworks, observability tooling, or benchmarking infrastructure</li> <li>Familiarity with how LLM or agent quality is measured — whether through evals, experimentation platforms, or production monitoring</li> </ul><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="description"><p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Pay Range Transparency</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-size: 14px;">Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles.&nbsp; Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location. Based on the factors above, Databricks anticipates utilizing the full width of the range. The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above. For more information regarding which range your location is in visit our page <a href="https://www.databricks.com/sites/default/files/2024-08/us-pay-zone-mapping.pdf">here</a>.<br></span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p></div><div class="title">Local Pay Range</div><div class="pay-range"><span>$200,000</span><span class="divider">&mdash;</span><span>$265,000 USD</span></div></div></div><div class="content-conclusion"><p><strong>About Databricks</strong></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&amp;T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and 70% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified platform that includes Genie, Lakebase, Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, and Unity Catalog. To learn more, follow Databricks on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/databricks">LinkedIn</a>, <a href="https://x.com/databricks">X</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@Databricks">YouTube</a>, and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/databricksinc/?hl=en">Instagram</a>.<br><br><strong>Benefits<br><br></strong></span>At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region click <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/154un3e8Xav4BceOSlcYFZRGEuQI54xMxVydRwQn54eQ/edit?usp=sharing">here</a>.<br><br></p> <p><strong>Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion</strong></p> <p>At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.</p> <p><strong>Compliance</strong></p> <p><strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">If access to export-controlled technology or source code is required for performance of job duties, it is within Employer's discretion whether to apply for a U.S. government license for such positions, and Employer may decline to proceed with an applicant on this basis alone.</span></strong></p></div>

$200k - $265k

Sierra

Sierra is a leading platform for customer-facing AI agents, partnering with major global brands to transform customer service and business growth. We are an in-person company based in San Francisco with a culture guided by values of Trust, Customer Obsession, Craftsmanship, Intensity, and a commitment to balancing family. Our co-founders have extensive experience from leading tech companies like Salesforce, Facebook, and Google. The Healthcare team is focused on transforming the patient experience across the healthcare system, making care more accessible, human, and affordable through AI agents that handle sensitive conversations with empathy and compliance.

$180k - $390k

WRITER is seeking a highly skilled fullstack software engineer to join their engineering team building advanced AI-driven agent systems. These systems will execute autonomous workflows, orchestrate multi-step tasks, and extend human capacity across enterprise applications. The role involves designing, building, and scaling next-generation AI agents that integrate with enterprise data and services to solve real-world problems. Collaboration with cross-functional teams to translate complex agent concepts into production-ready systems is a key aspect of this position. WRITER is a rapidly growing company in the enterprise generative AI space, backed by significant investors and used by major enterprises.

$132k - $240k

Databricks

Databricks is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the team building Profile Agents for their CustomerLake platform. This is a critical role in shaping the product, architecture, and engineering foundation of Databricks' new Agentic CDP, which aims to revolutionize customer data management. The product is in its early stages, offering significant opportunities to influence its vision and direction. You will be instrumental in delivering high-quality Customer 360 outputs, hiring and growing a senior team, and establishing the quality bar for agent-generated pipelines. This role offers substantial growth potential within a rapidly expanding company.

$190k - $261k

Abridge

Abridge is seeking an engineering leader to establish and grow its New York engineering presence. This role is a builder's role first, focusing on owning business-critical product areas end-to-end, setting technical direction, and making architectural decisions. The leader will be responsible for scoping and shipping product in an evolving area, growing a team from a small core, and representing Abridge engineering in New York. The position requires hands-on technical involvement to unblock the team and contribute to technical design discussions, alongside a strong point of view on AI and agentic engineering. The ideal candidate will have a track record of building products from inception to scale, driving execution velocity, and fostering a high-quality engineering culture.

$290k - $350k

We are seeking a Staff/Senior Software Engineer to join our Agent Engineering team, focusing on the Helios project. This role involves building and strengthening the foundations of our agent runtime, enabling the creation of new agent-driven products. You will develop systems that allow agents to manage long-running work from assignment to completion, ensuring agent activity is visible, steerable, and connected to relevant projects, people, evidence, deadlines, and deliverables. Additionally, you will construct the framework for agents to safely interact with internal systems and external services, and connect agents to our retrieval and knowledge systems to ground their reasoning, memory, citations, and generated artifacts in authoritative evidence. A key part of this role is improving the evaluation and release discipline for agent behavior, traces, and simulations to enhance quality while controlling latency, cost, and risk.

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Parloa

As a Lead AI Agent Architect at Parloa, you will be instrumental in revolutionizing customer service through advanced AI-powered agents. This customer-facing role involves leading the design and implementation of AI Agent solutions to help enterprise clients and partners achieve more efficient, scalable, and intelligent customer experiences. You will operate at the convergence of LLMs, conversational design, and enterprise systems, translating intricate requirements into robust, production-ready AI workflows. Your responsibilities will span from initial solution design through deployment and optimization, ensuring AI agents perform reliably, integrate seamlessly, and deliver tangible business impact. This is a unique opportunity to architect and deploy cutting-edge AI Agents at scale, significantly influencing how enterprises leverage LLMs to enhance customer experience and operational efficiency.

$196k - $223k