AI Agent Engineer Jobs in San Francisco

Retool

Retool is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Automations team and help build the next generation of automation tools. This role involves working on systems that power Retool Workflows and Agents, enabling customers to automate business processes, orchestrate complex workflows, and build AI-powered applications. You will partner closely with product and design to translate ambiguous problems into scalable systems and intuitive developer experiences, owning projects end-to-end from technical design through implementation and iteration. The Automations team is focused on extending Retool into backend automation and AI agents, allowing customers to orchestrate mission-critical workflows across their businesses.

$164k - $306k

Abundant

Abundant is an applied research lab focused on scaling reinforcement learning for safe and reliable agentic capabilities. As a Member of Technical Staff, Alignment, you will be instrumental in ensuring that alignment is a core component of all our work, from the code we deploy and the runbooks we write to the papers we publish. This role involves testing models in advanced environments, identifying and mitigating potential risks like reward hacking and deception, and building robust tools to monitor and secure AI agents.

$250k - $450k

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. The Foundation Agents team is responsible for the long-horizon agents that power the Fieldguide AI platform, working at the frontier of AI product development. This role involves focusing on agent knowledge, evaluations, and improving quality and reliability at scale for agents that perform real-world work.

$190k - $220k

Fieldguide is building software to automate and streamline the work of assurance and audit practitioners in cybersecurity, privacy, and financial audits. The Foundation Agents team focuses on the long-horizon agents that power the Fieldguide AI platform, working at the forefront of AI product development in areas like agent knowledge, evaluations, and improving quality and reliability at scale. As a Senior Software Engineer on this team, you will take ownership of how agent quality is measured and improved, and contribute to driving the platform forward.

$225k - $250k

Campfire

Campfire is seeking an AI Engineer to build production AI agents that assist customers with accounting tasks. This hands-on role involves shaping agent architecture, shipping customer-facing features, and establishing reliable engineering practices. You will collaborate closely with engineering, product, and design teams to transform complex problems into trustworthy software solutions. The ideal candidate will combine strong software engineering fundamentals with practical experience in developing and operating agentic applications, from automating financial workflows to enabling customers to understand and act on their financial data.

$180k - $300k

Observe.AI is seeking an AI Agent Engineer to lead the development and deployment of enterprise-grade Voice, Chat AI agents, and AI Copilots. This is a hands-on, customer-facing role responsible for the entire lifecycle of AI Agents, from design and integration to deployment and optimization. You will act as the primary technical partner for clients, guiding them from concept to production and ensuring the successful implementation of AI solutions.

$108k - $170k

Harvey is transforming legal and professional services by integrating advanced 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 professionals. The future of professional services is being shaped at Harvey, and this is just the beginning.

$231k - $340k

NVIDIA is seeking a Principal EDA R&D Engineer to lead the research, architecture, and development of next-generation hardware formal verification tools. This role involves pioneering advancements in core formal verification engines, enhanced by Agentic AI frameworks. You will craft collaborative, autonomous AI agent networks to extend formal tools, enabling them to automatically break down large builds, coordinate solver strategies, synthesize complex properties, and debug execution traces at an unprecedented scale. The position demands deep algorithmic knowledge, rigorous industrial software engineering, and a proven track record of delivering production-grade EDA tools.

$232k - $368k

Blee

Blee is an AI-first marketing content compliance platform trusted by major companies like PayPal, NerdWallet, and Brex. We are a YC-backed startup defining a new category in compliance across various industries. We value in-person collaboration but offer remote opportunities for exceptional candidates, with regular off-sites and opportunities to connect across offices. You will join a team focused on clarity, ownership, and building impactful solutions.

$150k - $275k

Oxus is seeking a Founding Engineer to join its early-stage team, which is building AI-powered solutions to automate internal audit workflows for public and pre-IPO companies. The company's platform is already used by leading payroll providers, public biotechs, and social media enterprises to streamline the manual processes involved in gathering, reviewing, and documenting information for internal audits. The Founding Engineer will play a crucial role in developing these AI systems, ensuring accuracy, traceability, and reviewability in high-stakes workflows. This is an opportunity to significantly impact the product, architecture, and engineering culture of a fast-growing startup backed by prominent investors.

$150k - $250k

Moveworks is building the runtime infrastructure that powers its AI agents, which deliver real-time responses to millions of enterprise users. This role focuses on distributed systems engineering at the core of agentic AI. The AI agents can plan, execute multi-step workflows, call tools, and interact with users while maintaining correctness, observability, and low latency. The systems responsible for these capabilities are what you will build and own.

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OpenAI

This role focuses on oversight and system-level mitigations to enable increasingly capable AI agents to operate safely and autonomously in real environments. The team prioritizes building oversight systems used in practice today, both internally and externally, and studies longer-term questions about how agent systems can be supervised, constrained, and corrected. We are looking for a safety-minded researcher or engineer who can reason rigorously about security boundaries and agent behavior, then build and test practical mitigations. A background in AI control or security is welcome but not required.

$380k - $500k

Moveworks is building the runtime infrastructure that powers its AI agents, enabling them to orchestrate, execute, and deliver responses to millions of enterprise users in real time. This role focuses on distributed systems engineering at the forefront of agentic AI. The AI agents are designed to plan, execute multi-step workflows, call tools, and interact with users, all while ensuring correctness, observability, and low latency. The successful candidate will build and own the systems that make these advanced agent capabilities possible.

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OpenAI

The Agent Safety team is dedicated to ensuring that advanced AI agents operate safely, make sound judgments, and align with user intentions. The mission is to minimize the risk of severe unintended consequences from increasingly capable AI agents while maintaining their effectiveness and autonomy. This involves creating training methods, environments, and data to teach agents better decision-making, building evaluation systems to identify emerging risks, and developing oversight mechanisms to reduce harmful actions.

$380k - $500k

Moveworks is building the runtime infrastructure that powers its AI agents, which are responsible for orchestrating, executing, and delivering responses to millions of enterprise users in real time. This role focuses on distributed systems engineering at the forefront of agentic AI. The AI agents are designed to plan and execute multi-step workflows, interact with tools, and manage human input, all while ensuring correctness, observability, and low latency. The systems responsible for these capabilities are what you will build and own.

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We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our team and build the runtime infrastructure that powers Moveworks' AI agents. These agents are responsible for orchestrating, executing, and delivering responses to millions of enterprise users in real time. This role focuses on distributed systems engineering at the forefront of agentic AI, enabling our AI agents to plan, execute multi-step workflows, call tools, and interact with users while maintaining correctness, observability, and low latency. You will build and own the core systems that make these advanced agent capabilities possible.

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Unlearn is seeking an AI Engineer to join their Science organization, focusing on scaling the use of AI agents for core business problems within clinical development. This role is crucial for delivering impact in efficiency and extensibility by building new capabilities across machine learning, statistics, and AI tools. The ideal candidate will be entrepreneurial, taking end-to-end ownership of their mission, collaborating extensively, and investigating a broad range of tools and techniques to ensure team success. Unlearn's mission is to help life-saving treatments reach patients faster by making clinical trials smarter using data, AI, and digital twins.

$145k - $180k

You will own the end-to-end technical relationship with enterprise customers, translating complex business challenges into high-impact AI solutions built on the Moveworks Platform. This is a customer-facing, field-based role where you will be the primary technical point of contact throughout the full implementation lifecycle, from solution design through launch. You are equally comfortable whiteboarding with a customer's IT team and collaborating with internal engineering and product teams. This role requires regular customer interaction and up to 25% travel.

$191k - $334k