AI Agent Engineer Jobs in San Francisco

Anthropic

The Computer Use team at Anthropic focuses on enabling Claude to interact with computer interfaces and builds the necessary agent harness and end-user products. This team is integral to the research organization, bridging the gap between product development and model capabilities. As a Product Engineer, you will be responsible for the complete lifecycle of our computer-use and browser-control product surfaces, working across the full stack from user interface to agent runtime and backend services. You will collaborate directly with researchers, ensuring a close connection to the model and user experience. This role demands adaptability, a high tolerance for ambiguity, and the ability to prioritize effectively in a fast-paced environment where priorities frequently shift.

$300k - $320k

Salesforce is seeking an early-career, highly driven Value Acceleration Engineer to join their Agentforce for Supply Chain team. In this forward-deployed role, you will work directly with enterprise customers and Customer Success teams to implement AI-powered solutions for supply chain management. Your primary goal will be to compress the customer's time-to-value by designing and building agentic workflows and getting critical business processes live in production within an intensive 90-day window. This role is structured as a rotational "Field Residency," where you will spend the initial 6-12 months mastering production edge cases and customer complexities before transitioning into a core product and engineering pod, bringing valuable frontline insights to shape the future platform.

$117k - $224k

Tenstorrent is seeking a RISC-V AI / HPC & Agentic Software Engineering Lead to work at the hardware-software boundary, enabling AI, HPC, and agentic AI software stacks on Tenstorrent’s RISC-V processors. This role involves integrating and optimizing Tenstorrent’s LLK (Low-Level Kernel) infrastructure for CPU execution and leading the bring-up of a RISC-V-native agentic AI software stack. You will collaborate closely with CPU architects, microarchitecture teams, compiler engineers, and AI kernel developers to ensure tight alignment between software capabilities and RISC-V architectural features. This is a remote position based out of North America.

$100k - $500k

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 primarily 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 Tech, Media & Telecom team builds AI agents for critical moments, such as service disruptions or major product launches, to enhance customer relationships across telecommunications, media, and technology sectors. These agents aim to personalize experiences, optimize plans, drive engagement, and improve customer loyalty.

$180k - $390k

Together AI

Together AI runs one of the largest GPU fleets globally, and the Infra Agent Systems team is responsible for developing the software that powers and automates this infrastructure. The team builds production AI agents designed to diagnose hardware failures, investigate incidents, correlate signals across the fleet, and automate operational workflows. Alongside these agents, they are building the core platform, which includes knowledge graphs, retrieval systems, orchestration frameworks, and developer tooling. This role offers the unique opportunity to work at the intersection of AI agents, distributed systems, infrastructure, and automation, tackling complex engineering challenges with significant real-world impact.

$250k - $300k

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 primarily 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, Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor, bring extensive experience from leading tech companies like Salesforce, Facebook, and Google. The Travel, Transportation and Hospitality (TTH) team specifically supports major players in the travel industry, helping them deliver exceptional customer experiences, drive growth, and build innovative products. This is a small, scrappy, and collaborative team where every member is encouraged to think like a product owner and contribute to shaping the future of AI in travel.

$180k - $390k

Sierra

Sierra is seeking a Software Engineer to join its Financial Services team, focusing on building customer-facing AI agents for major brands. This role involves designing, delivering, and iterating on production-grade AI agents that are mission-critical and drive revenue. You will own the Agent Development Life Cycle (ADLC) from pilot to deployment, working directly with enterprise clients and startups to solve complex business challenges. Your work will directly influence the evolution of Sierra's core platform, shaping the future of AI agent development. The team partners closely with financial institutions to transform customer experiences, making the industry more accessible, human, and affordable.

$180k - $390k

Sierra

Sierra is a leading platform for customer-facing AI agents, partnering with major global brands to revolutionize customer service and business growth. We are an in-person company based in San Francisco with a culture guided by trust, customer obsession, craftsmanship, intensity, and a commitment to work-life balance. Our co-founders, Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor, bring extensive experience from leading tech companies like Salesforce, Facebook, and Google. The Retail Team specifically focuses on reinventing AI-first commerce for renowned brands such as Gap, Wayfair, and Sonos, handling millions of customer interactions annually across various channels. We aim to create seamless experiences that resolve issues, drive revenue, and build lasting customer loyalty.

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Sierra

Sierra is seeking a Software Engineer to join its Public Sector team, focusing on designing and building production-grade AI agents for government institutions. This role involves close collaboration with industry leadership to shape market strategy and product development, as well as working directly with public sector customers to understand their needs and identify opportunities for AI to improve citizen services and government operations. The position offers a unique opportunity to influence the evolution of Sierra's core platform by surfacing unmet needs and prototyping new features, contributing to the future of AI agent development within the public sector.

$180k - $390k

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 primarily 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 Financial Services team works with systemically important banks, neobanks, and insurers, impacting millions of end customers and billions in economic activity. We build modern tools that address critical customer moments, making the financial industry more accessible, human, and affordable.

$180k - $390k

WRITER is seeking an exceptional software engineer to join their rapidly evolving team. In this pivotal role, you will be at the forefront of expanding human capacity by building the next generation of AI-powered solutions that transform how leading enterprises operate. You will dive deep into developing a state-of-the-art platform that leverages cutting-edge generative AI technologies, from large language models to sophisticated agentic workflows, delivering seamless, scalable, and secure applications that redefine enterprise productivity. This is an unparalleled opportunity to make a tangible impact, shaping the future of AI and contributing to a product that’s changing how the world works. This role is hybrid, based out of their San Francisco, New York City, or Seattle hubs.

$132k - $240k

Labelbox is seeking a Member of Technical Staff to lead the design, development, and production of Frontier Data Products. This role involves building the essential sandboxed, reproducible environments that AI agents require for training and evaluation, including terminals, browsers, and tool-augmented workspaces. You will be responsible for writing production-quality infrastructure, integrating with the RL tooling ecosystem, and ensuring environments are robust and observable. A strong understanding of how RL training loops consume environments and potential failure points is crucial.

$140k - $200k

Firecrawl is seeking a highly motivated and product-focused engineer to enhance how AI agents discover, understand, and utilize Firecrawl's capabilities. This role emphasizes rapid iteration, rigorous A/B testing, and translating learnings into product improvements for a non-human user base. It requires a blend of scientific rigor in product development, including hypothesis formation, experimentation, and data analysis, rather than pure research or data science. Prior experience with AI agents is beneficial, but strong engineering skills, a fast shipping cadence, and a quick learning ability are paramount. Firecrawl provides the easiest way to convert web content into data usable by AI agents, solving a critical problem for LLM development. The company has experienced significant growth, backed by substantial funding, and is building foundational AI infrastructure.

$235k - $260k

Thinking Machines Lab

Thinking Machines is building AI that extends human will and judgment, and our Core Services team is responsible for the foundational infrastructure that enables models to run code, use tools, and take actions safely and reliably. This role involves designing, building, and operating a sandboxing platform where models can execute untrusted code and interact with tools. This is critical infrastructure that supports both internal research and external product development, requiring a focus on speed, security, and dependability.

$300k - $400k

Databricks

Databricks is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to architect and deliver the company's AI-native vertical workflow platform, Customer Experience Intelligence (CXI). This platform is designed to orchestrate AI agents, humans, and enterprise tools into end-to-end operational workflows, initially focusing on customer support and expanding to domains like IT, Security, Legal, and Marketing. The role involves building a scalable, multi-tenant agent platform with a strong emphasis on reliability, observability, and enterprise-grade features.

$164k - $226k

Databricks

Databricks is seeking a Staff Technical Lead for Customer Experience Intelligence (CXI) to architect and deliver an AI-native vertical workflow platform. This platform will orchestrate AI agents, humans, and enterprise tools into end-to-end operational workflows, initially focusing on customer support and expanding to other domains like IT, Security, Legal, and Marketing. The role involves driving rapid backend development with a focus on quality, safety, and reliability, designing state-machine and agentic workflows, and implementing robust observability and rollback mechanisms for AI-driven decisions. The Technical Lead will also act as a liaison between CXI, Product, Platform Engineering, and business stakeholders, while mentoring engineers and subject matter experts.

$190k - $261k

Databricks

The Web Engineering team at Databricks builds and owns the public-facing web experiences that represent Databricks to the world. We are rebuilding the platform from the ground up, AI native from the start, and pioneering an agentic SDLC as our operating model. As Staff Software Engineer, Marketing Agents on the Web Engineering team, you will own the architecture and delivery of agents that transform how Databricks creates, publishes, and ships for the web, shifting content operations from a linear, engineering-dependent process to an orchestrated, continuously improving system. You will define how LLM-powered agents participate reliably across marketing content workflows, set the engineering standards the team builds on, and ensure agent output is robust, observable, and production-ready at scale.

$198k - $273k

Databricks

Databricks is transforming how it builds and operates People Technology, moving from traditional SaaS configuration toward an AI-native, agentic stack. You will be the technical anchor of the People Tech pod, driving the architectural shift from workflow automation to autonomous, multi-agent systems that power HR, recruiting, workforce analytics, and employee experience at scale. This is a rare opportunity to reimagine a critical enterprise domain from the ground up using the very data and AI platform Databricks sells to the world.

$192k - $260k

Databricks

Databricks is seeking a Sr. Backend Software Engineer for its Customer Experience Intelligence (CXI) team. This role will involve architecting and delivering Databricks' AI-native vertical workflow platform, which orchestrates AI agents, humans, and enterprise tools into end-to-end operational workflows. The platform is initially focused on customer support but is designed to expand into other domains like IT, Security, Legal, and Marketing, with a roadmap for broader productization. You will contribute to the technical vision, core infrastructure, and backend architecture for an enterprise agentic framework, ensuring reliability, scalability, and enterprise-grade observability for AI-driven systems.

$164k - $226k

Databricks

Databricks is seeking a Sr. Software Engineer to architect and deliver the company's AI-native vertical workflow platform. This role involves building intelligent systems that orchestrate AI agents, humans, and enterprise tools into end-to-end operational workflows, starting with customer support and expanding to other domains like IT, Security, Legal, and Marketing. The goal is to create a scalable, reliable, and observable platform for AI-driven business decisions.

$164k - $226k

Ironclad is building AI solutions at enterprise scale, focusing on one of the most consequential datasets: over 2 billion contracts. This role involves developing agentic solutions for problems that are still being defined in the contract AI space. The team operates with a short feedback loop, rich data, and empowers individuals to shape the product's direction, enabling rapid impact. Ironclad is recognized as an industry leader in Contract Lifecycle Management and is backed by prominent investors.

$180k - $200k

Prime Intellect

Prime Intellect is building the open superintelligence stack, a full-stack system for post-training AI models at frontier scale. They are developing open-source models for long-horizon tasks and the platform their research team uses to build them. This role involves building Prime Agent, an open-source coding and research agent, and will span product development and underlying agent systems. You will own features end-to-end, from design through deployment and monitoring, shipping at the pace of an early-stage company tackling a critical problem in AI.

$150k - $300k

Fieldguide is building a new state of trust for global commerce and capital markets by automating and streamlining the work of assurance and audit practitioners. This role is a product-focused, 0→1 opportunity to own agent quality and ship agents that perform real audit work. You will collaborate closely with practitioners, potentially owning major agent areas end-to-end or setting technical direction for agentic audit work. The position is open to all levels, with specific responsibilities and scope calibrated during the interview process based on experience.

$170k - $300k

The Conversation Engine team is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to scale and optimize a cutting-edge Generative AI product that provides instant assistance to enterprise users. This role offers a unique opportunity to work at the core of Moveworks' Generative AI product, focusing on its scalability and optimization for the enterprise solution space. You will be encouraged to bring innovative ideas to solve complex problems, collaborating closely with machine learning experts and cross-functional teams. The challenge involves scaling the conversation engine to support hundreds of millions of users across multiple chat channels and use cases, while enhancing the end-to-end product infrastructure with high engineering quality and robustness.

$176k - $308k