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Position: Agent Engineer
Visa Status: US Citizens and Green Card Holders (Only)
Location: San Francisco, CA (On-site)
Visa Status: US Citizens and Green Card Holders (Only)
Location: San Francisco, CA (On-site)
Employment Type: Full-Time
Experience Required: 10 Years
About the Role
We are seeking an experienced Agent Engineer to build and scale the agent and workflow layer behind a cloud-based creative platform. The ideal candidate has experience shipping production AI or backend systems, understands agent runtime behavior, and can design reliable model orchestration beyond basic prompt-based applications.
We are seeking an experienced Agent Engineer to build and scale the agent and workflow layer behind a cloud-based creative platform. The ideal candidate has experience shipping production AI or backend systems, understands agent runtime behavior, and can design reliable model orchestration beyond basic prompt-based applications.
This role focuses on developing intelligent workflow systems that integrate multiple AI models, tools, and services across image, video, audio, text, and other creative workflows.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and maintain agent runtimes supporting planning, tool usage, memory, retrieval, context management, and workflow execution.
- Orchestrate multiple AI models and providers across various generation workflows.
- Design routing, retry mechanisms, fallbacks, latency optimization, cost controls, and failure recovery systems.
- Develop workflow memory systems that preserve project context, assets, templates, style preferences, and previous outputs.
- Implement evaluation frameworks, regression testing, benchmarking, human review workflows, and quality metrics.
- Improve production reliability through queue management, monitoring, cancellation handling, progress tracking, and graceful recovery mechanisms.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable and user-friendly AI workflow solutions.
Required Qualifications
- 3 years of experience building and shipping AI, agent-based, backend, infrastructure, or production software systems.
- Strong proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript.
- Experience with backend development, databases, queues, observability, and production reliability practices.
- Hands-on experience with agent architectures, including planning, tool use, memory, retrieval, context management, and workflow execution.
- Experience orchestrating multiple AI models and providers, including routing, retries, fallbacks, latency optimization, and cost management.
- Experience building evaluation frameworks, regression testing systems, quality metrics, or A/B testing environments.
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to work on-site in San Francisco.
Preferred Qualifications
Creative AI Systems
- Experience working with image, video, audio, TTS/STT, lipsync, upscaling, or related generative AI pipelines.
- Experience maintaining reliable generation workflows at scale.
Workflow & Runtime Systems
- Experience with workflow engines, node-based systems, visual programming environments, automation runtimes, or similar platforms.
- Strong understanding of queues, state management, retries, and recovery mechanisms.
Quality & Evaluation
- Experience designing AI evaluation systems, regression testing, human review workflows, and benchmarking frameworks.
- Ability to measure and improve AI output quality in production environments.
What Success Looks Like
- Building reliable agent workflows that scale efficiently in production.
- Improving workflow quality, reliability, and user experience.
- Delivering robust orchestration across multiple AI systems and providers.
- Establishing strong evaluation and monitoring practices for AI behavior.
Salary : $160,000 - $200,000