AI Agent Engineer Jobs at Startups

Perplexity AI

Perplexity is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead and grow its highly driven Agent Engine team. This team designs and builds powerful agentic experiences, including Perplexity Computer, the Comet ecosystem, and the Agent API. The role involves bringing AI expertise, sharp product intuition, and strong leadership skills to advance the frontier of what agents can accomplish for millions of users. The manager will lead, grow, and support the team in solving open problems in AI, such as designing agent harnesses, leveraging action and decision models, providing excellent cross-environment experiences, developing secure agentic capabilities, and optimizing data representations for agent-environment interactions.

$300k - $485k

Perplexity AI

Perplexity is seeking energetic engineers to join our highly driven Agent Engine team. The Agent Engine team designs and builds powerful agentic experiences including Perplexity Computer, the Comet ecosystem, our Agent API, and more. In short, we build frontier intelligence systems for the world's most discerning users. As an engineer on our Agent Engine team, you'll bring AI expertise, sharp product intuition, and a tinkerer's mindset to advance the frontier of what agents can accomplish for our millions of devoted users. You'll work across engineering and applied research to solve many open problems in AI.

$250k - $405k

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

Composio

Composio is building infrastructure that enables AI agents to communicate with essential work tools like Github, Gmail, and Notion. We are a growing company that has successfully raised significant funding and experienced substantial ARR growth, serving a diverse range of clients from startups to established enterprises. Our mission is to provide a robust bridge between AI agents and the tools people use daily.

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AiPrise

AiPrise is seeking a Staff Software Engineer in Bangalore to define the technical direction for its core compliance orchestration and AI agent systems. This senior individual contributor role involves owning platform architecture, leading complex multi-quarter initiatives, and elevating engineering standards within a rapidly growing team. You will collaborate with leadership to translate customer and regulatory needs into technical strategy and ensure the reliability, security, and data integrity of the platform, which processes verification requests for financial institutions in a regulated environment. This is an opportunity to significantly influence the platform's scalability and contribute directly through coding.

INR 8000k - INR 12000k

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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OpenSpace is seeking a Sr. AI Research Engineer to build sophisticated agentic systems capable of reasoning across a vast array of project data, including 360° imagery, point clouds, BIM models, and technical documents. This role involves developing the layer above perception primitives, integrating frontier models to answer complex construction project questions and ensuring the answers are verifiable for practical application. The work is focused on applied research, tackling challenges in agentic reasoning, tool design, and ensuring high-confidence outputs for production deployment.

CA$181k - CA$230k

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

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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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

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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Parloa

Parloa is at the forefront of a new era in customer experience, where AI agents are transforming customer support from simple transactions into meaningful interactions. We have powered over a billion customer interactions for global enterprise brands, making customer conversations effortless. As a Sr Agent Architect, you will be instrumental in designing and implementing end-to-end AI Agent solutions for our enterprise clients. This role focuses on architecting complex system integrations, shaping the conversational experience, and ensuring the reliability and scalability of our AI solutions within diverse enterprise environments.

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Parloa

Parloa is at the forefront of a new era in customer experience, leveraging agentic AI to transform customer conversations from simple transactions into meaningful exchanges. We power billions of interactions for global enterprise brands, making customer support seamless, intelligent, and genuinely helpful. As Manager, Agent Architecture, you will lead a team responsible for building and delivering AI Agents that revolutionize customer service. This role offers a unique opportunity to be hands-on at the leading edge of enterprise AI, combining team leadership with direct client engagement and implementation.

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Parloa

Parloa is shaping the foundation of a new era in customer experience with agentic AI, making customer support more meaningful. As a Sr Agent Architect, you will act as a solution architect for enterprise AI Agent deployments, designing end-to-end system architectures that integrate Parloa's platform into complex enterprise environments. You will solve multi-system integration challenges and apply systems thinking to build reliable, scalable AI solutions for global enterprise clients. The role also involves shaping the conversational experience layer using prompt engineering and LLM knowledge to translate customer requirements into agent behavior, with a strong emphasis on architecture and integration depth.

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Parloa

Parloa is at the forefront of a new era in customer experience, leveraging agentic AI to transform customer support into meaningful interactions. We power billions of customer interactions for global enterprise brands, making customer conversations effortless. As a Sr Agent Architect, you will be instrumental in designing and implementing end-to-end AI Agent solutions for our enterprise clients. This role focuses on architecting complex system integrations, shaping the conversational experience layer through prompt engineering and LLM knowledge, and ensuring the reliability and scalability of AI solutions within intricate enterprise environments.

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Parloa

Parloa is shaping the future of customer experience with agentic AI, powering billions of interactions for global enterprise brands. As a Sr Partner Agent Architect, you will be at the forefront of this revolution, working with strategic partners and enterprise customers to design, implement, and scale AI-driven customer experiences. This consultative, customer-facing role involves guiding clients through solution discovery, end-to-end architecture, enterprise integration, and implementation strategy for AI Agents. You will focus on architecting scalable integrations, applying systems thinking to build reliable AI solutions, and shaping the conversational experience layer through prompt engineering and LLM concepts.

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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

Vanta

Vanta is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for its AI Developer Experience team. This role will focus on building the systems, infrastructure, and developer workflows that enhance the usefulness, reliability, and ease of adoption of AI-powered engineering for Vanta engineers. The AI DX team is developing foundational elements for a more autonomous software development experience, including background agents, agent evaluation systems, and tools to improve engineer-AI collaboration. The position involves working directly with engineers to identify workflow challenges, build practical solutions, and use usage data to continuously improve quality and reliability.

$195k - $229k

Turing

Turing's Enterprise AI unit is seeking a Forward-Deployed AI Engineer to join its initial team. This role offers the opportunity to operate with the speed and focus of a startup, defining the frontier of applied AI in the workplace. You will be responsible for identifying high-value customer problems, shaping AI solution architecture, building production systems, and directly engaging with senior client leaders. The work involves developing generative AI solutions that drive measurable impact and return on investment within large institutions, tackling intellectually challenging and high-impact problems.

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We are seeking an early Member of Technical Staff within our Research Tribe to shape the core systems powering our AI and Agent Systems. This deeply technical role bridges distributed systems, machine intelligence, and product, focusing on turning stochastic models into reliable, production-grade systems. You will design and implement agentic systems at scale, defining agent topologies, orchestration layers, state management, memory, and tool-use execution. You will also develop behavioral and persona modeling, design evaluation frameworks, build signal and insight systems from agent outputs, and engineer production reliability infrastructure for agents. This position emphasizes building robust, inspectable, and improvable systems over simple prompt chaining. You will work in a fast-paced, iterative environment where research and product development move together, shipping quickly and learning from real users. We value high ownership, low ego, and a comfort with ambiguous problems at the frontier of AI.

$175k - $225k

sarvam

Our team builds Sarvam's context engine to solve key challenges for AI agents interacting with enterprise data. We aim to enable agents to effectively search, navigate, and cite information from diverse sources like documents, databases, and business systems, overcoming the limitations of current agents that forget information after a session. We are developing both a knowledge system to consolidate enterprise data and a memory system for agents to retain learning over time, focusing on continuous improvement and measurable results that outperform traditional approaches. This role offers the opportunity to own significant parts of the platform, with work directly driven by customer deployments, allowing for rapid iteration and close collaboration with teams working on Sarvam's models, document AI, and inference.

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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

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