AI Agent Engineer Jobs in New York

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

Harvey is transforming legal and professional services by integrating frontier agentic AI with an enterprise-grade platform. This role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to a rapidly scaling company that is defining a new category in real-time. The team values decisiveness, simplicity, and a commitment to continuous improvement, seeking individuals who are driven to do their best work alongside like-minded colleagues. The future of professional services is being shaped at Harvey, and the company is just beginning its journey.

$231k - $340k

Lightning AI is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Training & Experimentation team. This team builds the platform that enables developers to experiment at scale and train their own intelligence, covering everything from foundation model training to fine-tuning open-source models and launching distributed training jobs. The role involves designing and scaling backend systems to make AI development faster, more reliable, and easier to use, working across distributed training infrastructure, workload orchestration, experiment management, developer tooling, and platform APIs. This is an opportunity to build systems that support real-world AI workloads at scale and shape the developer experience for a global user base.

$180k - $250k

Lightning AI is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Agents team, focusing on building the infrastructure for the next generation of AI applications. This role involves designing and developing backend systems for AI agent orchestration, tool execution, workflow management, and state handling. You will create scalable APIs and reliable infrastructure for long-running, distributed AI workflows, partnering with product, research, and platform engineering teams. The goal is to make building production-ready agentic applications as simple as deploying any modern software service, ensuring these capabilities are reliable, scalable, and intuitive for developers.

$180k - $250k