AI Agent Engineer Jobs in San Francisco

NVIDIA is seeking interns for the Learning and Perception research team to work on embodied and agentic AI, including areas like perception, agentic reasoning, multi-modal and continual learning. This role offers the opportunity to contribute to research that pushes boundaries and has real-world impact, with a collaborative team environment and experienced mentors. Internship projects are tailored to match interns' expertise, and past interns have a strong track record of publishing at top venues and often return for subsequent internships.

$0k - $0k

Join the new Agentic Engineering team, focused on automating code generation, testing, and tuning across NVIDIA's frameworks, compilers, and developer tooling. This is a greenfield opportunity offering foundational technical influence within a high-autonomy team. You will partner directly with early-adopter teams to translate complex requirements into durable, scalable infrastructure, applying modern AI to the craft of engineering itself. The role involves identifying friction points where agentic workflows can have the highest impact and iterating with teams as they integrate agents into production.

$224k - $357k

NVIDIA is building a new kind of agentic engineering system to ensure the correctness, security, and reliability of software for safety-critical applications like autonomous vehicles and medical robots. This system aims to translate precise specifications into production-ready C/C++ and Rust software, continuously validating the results and providing evidence for readiness. The role involves leading a core team to develop this capability, combining AI agents, systems engineering, deterministic validation, security, and functional-safety practices into a production platform.

$272k - $431k

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior High Performance AI Engineer to develop groundbreaking multi-agent systems within the CUDA ecosystem. This role involves building innovative agentic runtimes and compiler-integrated orchestration that leverage NVIDIA's software stack to accelerate modern agent workloads powered by foundational models. You will contribute to new agent abstractions, GPU-centric runtimes, and system solutions that enhance agent planning, tool-use, and code generation. The position requires close collaboration with internal NVIDIA software and hardware teams to integrate cutting-edge developments into NVIDIA products.

$184k - $357k

We are seeking a Senior Engineer to design, build, and scale the infrastructure that powers NVIDIA's AI agent ecosystem. This role sits at the intersection of distributed systems, developer platforms, and agentic AI, focusing on building foundational services that enable teams across the company to develop, deploy, orchestrate, and operate autonomous AI agents at production scale. You will be instrumental in creating the core platform that supports the full agent lifecycle, from registration to teardown, ensuring robust and scalable operations.

$200k - $391k

This role focuses on establishing and implementing a comprehensive evaluation strategy for autonomous agents at NVIDIA. The goal is to ensure that changes to agents, their underlying models, harnesses, tools, and skills lead to improvements rather than regressions. You will design systems that allow agents to leverage evaluation results for self-improvement, building trust in the process of autonomous evolution. This involves creating robust evaluation frameworks, mining production data for insights, and developing realistic simulation environments for safe, end-to-end agent task execution.

$224k - $431k

CrewAI

CrewAI is seeking a Senior Full-Stack Engineer to build and enhance their Agent Management Platform. This platform is the control plane for deploying, monitoring, governing, and scaling AI agents in production, enabling customers to manage complex AI infrastructure, diagnose failures, and oversee automations. The role emphasizes frontend development, creating rich and intuitive user interfaces, while also owning the necessary backend changes to deliver complete features. You will collaborate closely with design and product teams, taking ownership from problem definition to launch, and contributing to the team's technical growth through code reviews and mentoring.

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We are seeking an experienced software engineer to join our Agentic AI Harness & Quality team, focusing on expanding customer-facing agentic AI capabilities. You will leverage modern agentic AI tools, including frontier LLMs and infrastructure for tuning, evaluating, and serving AI agents in production. This is an eval-driven, data-centric role where you'll contribute to building error-free, inclusive, and privacy-preserving datasets. Your work will focus on enhancing AI performance in production, encompassing accuracy, quality, latency, reliability, and the overall user-facing system. We aim to build the world's highest-performing enterprise assistant platform, and your contributions will be crucial to this objective.

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Figma is seeking a Support Engineer for its AI Infrastructure & Tooling team. This role will be the technical execution layer, bringing together support tools, customer context, internal systems, and AI workflows. You will design, build, and operationalize integrations across various systems to automate workflows, connect systems, and streamline support operations. The goal is to enhance the customer and Specialist experience by applying AI to improve support workflows, quality, and efficiency, ensuring the right context is available for issue resolution.

$169k - $245k

Figma is seeking a seasoned researcher to join its Agentic Experiences team. This role will focus on shaping and executing research to drive innovation in design and production tooling, particularly in the evolving landscape of AI-assisted product development. You will explore complex questions around trust, verification, and control in AI-driven experiences, influencing company strategy and product decisions. The ideal candidate is passionate about research, AI-led experiences, and translating user needs into impactful product strategies. This full-time position can be based in one of our US hubs or remotely within the United States.

$169k - $250k

Figma's AI Tools team is building AI-powered workflows, platforms, and tooling to enhance engineer productivity. This team owns systems that transform software development, including agentic CI auto-fixing, AI-assisted code review, and cloud agents that automate tasks like turning Slack messages into pull requests. The team operates across a three-layer platform stack: sandbox runtime, cloud agents, and workflow orchestration, while maintaining a growing portfolio of org-wide developer workflows.

$258k - $376k

Figma is seeking an Engineering Manager for Observability to lead a team responsible for building and evolving systems that monitor the behavior of Figma's platform and its AI products in production. This role involves owning the core observability stack (metrics, logs, distributed tracing) and the emerging AI observability pipeline, which processes traces, conversations, and model outputs to classify and evaluate AI features. The manager will set strategy, improve instrumentation and data quality, and explore AI-driven approaches for anomaly detection and operational automation. This is a unique opportunity to shape a critical, early-stage platform that underpins all engineering teams at Figma.

$258k - $376k

This customer-facing role involves owning the end-to-end technical relationship with enterprise clients, translating complex business challenges into high-impact AI solutions built on the Moveworks Platform. You will serve as the primary technical point of contact throughout the full implementation lifecycle, from solution design through launch, and will be comfortable collaborating with both customer IT teams and internal engineering and product teams. This is not a back-office role; you will be in front of customers regularly and are expected to travel up to 25% of the time.

$143k - $243k

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

NVIDIA is seeking a deeply technical, creative, and hands-on Senior full-stack developer to build the next generation AI platforms and products that improve business efficiency and productivity. This role involves working with concepts of RAG and agentic AI to build AI products using state-of-the-art agentic paradigms, third-party platforms, and open-source repositories. As a key leader, you will shape the architecture, development, and scaling of our software systems, collaborating with Cloud, AI/ML, and Generative AI teams in a multifaceted and agile environment to meet evolving business needs.

$248k - $391k

Salesforce is seeking a Software Engineer to join the brand-new Software Factory team. This team is responsible for industrializing software development by building a platform that enables coding agents to perform real work on the company's codebase. The role involves creating remote sandboxes for agents to run builds safely, developing orchestration for agent tasks triggered from various platforms like Slack and GitHub, and implementing observability to ensure the trustworthiness of agent output at scale. The team's strategy is to leverage existing off-the-shelf coding agents rather than building their own, focusing on the surrounding factory infrastructure. As one of the first hires, you will have significant influence in shaping this platform from the ground up, working closely with the CTO on architecture, build-vs-buy decisions, and future priorities, while delivering value to internal customers from day one.

$173k - $314k

Athelas

Commure is building the AI Operating System for healthcare, transforming administrative burdens in care delivery, documentation, and financing. Our platform integrates Ambient AI, intelligent Agents, and autonomous RCM to streamline healthcare operations. We are seeking a Software Engineer to develop the systems powering our AI Voice Agents, which handle patient interactions like scheduling, cancellations, and FAQs by integrating with EHR and telephony systems in real-time. This role offers significant growth opportunities within a fast-paced, impactful team.

$170k - $230k

AiPrise

AiPrise is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead and grow the team responsible for building the company's AI agents. This is a player-coach role where you will manage, hire, and develop engineers, while also staying hands-on with agent architecture design, prompt reviews, tool definitions, and debugging evaluations. You will be responsible for the end-to-end process of building, measuring, and shipping AI agents, including the skills and tools they utilize, their memory capabilities, and the evaluation metrics that ensure quality and performance in a regulated domain like KYC and KYB. The role emphasizes the importance of quality and observability alongside speed, as inaccurate AI decisions can have significant financial and audit implications for customers.

$185k - $230k

Scale AI

Scale AI is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to own the technical foundation for building, running, verifying, and delivering Reinforcement Learning (RL) environments at scale. This role involves designing the platform for sandboxed execution, environment packaging, rollout orchestration, and verifier frameworks, while also diving deep into instrumenting real applications, designing task suites, and building robust graders. This is a hands-on engineering position requiring technical leadership across multiple teams and the ability to write complex code.

$252k - $315k

Sierra

Sierra is a leading platform for customer-facing AI agents, transforming how businesses serve customers and grow. We are seeking a Software Engineer to join our Horizon team, focusing on building advanced AI agents capable of complex, long-horizon tasks across multiple communication channels. This role involves developing core agent capabilities, creating reusable systems and abstractions, and shaping the future of our AI product. You will tackle technically challenging problems in orchestration, integrations, data, memory, and observability, translating validated solutions into durable product features.

$230k - $390k

Move the needle in testing NVIDIA's embedded software! As a highly skilled and motivated senior software developer, you will push the boundaries for testing and automation. This role offers an outstanding opportunity to leave your mark on our verification strategy and influence our future test automation system, directly impacting the quality and performance of Nvidia's embedded software systems.

$140k - $270k

Scale AI

The Public Sector software engineers (SWEs) create the core product building blocks forward-deployed teams use to develop agentic capabilities that function across multiple domains. SWEs responsibilities include building the systems required to ingest and process federal datasets to support real-time decision-making in contested environments. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will orchestrate the implementation of vertical features and horizontal capabilities, mentoring other engineers on defining requirements with stakeholders and communicating tradeoffs of technical implementations. You will define the technical strategy for agentic guardrails, explainability, and fleet orchestration, ensuring system reliability and performance across multiple security classifications and network types. You will also influence the long-term product strategy and technical roadmap for the Federal business unit and consult on the architecture of AI-powered solutions for large-scale federal contracts.

$189k - $362k

Sierra

Sierra is a leading platform for customer-facing AI agents, transforming how businesses serve customers and grow. This role focuses on the core systems that power these AI agents across various communication channels, including phone calls, SMS, WhatsApp, email, and in-app chat. You will be instrumental in building the future of how entire industries operate with AI agents, tackling complex challenges in real-time, multi-modal conversations and ensuring seamless integration with global communication networks. The team is responsible for making AI voice feel like a real conversation, developing safe integration methods for personal AI assistants, and building the agent experience within customer applications.

$230k - $390k

Scale AI

Scale AI is seeking a Staff Frontier Agents Engineer to work directly with strategic enterprise customers. In this role, you will architect, integrate, deploy, and operate production AI systems, combining modern software engineering, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and frontier AI technologies. You will design production agent architectures, integrate with customer systems, deploy AI into mission-critical workflows, and help shape best practices for enterprise AI. This role is ideal for individuals who enjoy solving complex systems problems, rapidly prototyping AI capabilities, and bringing frontier AI into production.

$252k - $315k