What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior AI Agent Engineer position at Dusty Robotics?
Mission
Build trustworthy AI agents that automate construction workflows end-to-end—from design data to field execution—so crews build faster, safer, and with fewer errors.
Role
IC role owning the design, implementation, and iteration of Dusty's AI agent(s) for construction. You'll turn messy, real-world data (BIM, drawings, photos, logs, portal data) into reliable actions and insights, integrating tightly with our products and customer tools. You'll be joining as one of the early members of a team tasked with building out Dusty Robotic's vision of simplifying construction connecting workers with the information they need to build and lower the cost and improve the quality of the spaces in which we work and play.
What You'll Do
Mountain View, CA; we collaborate in person for speed and cross-functional alignment, with occasional travel to jobsites and customer offices.
Why You Should Join:
In joining our team, you'll become an important part of a small and fast-growing company. We are daring to accomplish something big, do you want to be a critical part of Dusty's success? We are deeply committed to our mission, and we believe in removing roadblocks that distract us from reaching our goals.
To that end, we offer an unlimited vacation policy, a 401k with employer match, reasonable work hours, and flexible schedules. We know that our best work happens when we feel well-rested and capable of focusing all of our energy on making Dusty successful!
Strong, effective teams are composed of people with a diverse set of backgrounds and experiences who bring a variety of perspectives to their work. We actively encourage applications from a diverse pool, including those from historically under-represented groups such as women, people of color, people who identify LGBTQ, people with disabilities, and immigrants.
Our Code of Conduct:
Dusty Robotics exists to serve a wide variety of customers from all walks of life. We believe that our mission is best served in an environment that is friendly, safe, accepting, and free of intimidation or harassment. We do not tolerate abusive behavior.
Build trustworthy AI agents that automate construction workflows end-to-end—from design data to field execution—so crews build faster, safer, and with fewer errors.
Role
IC role owning the design, implementation, and iteration of Dusty's AI agent(s) for construction. You'll turn messy, real-world data (BIM, drawings, photos, logs, portal data) into reliable actions and insights, integrating tightly with our products and customer tools. You'll be joining as one of the early members of a team tasked with building out Dusty Robotic's vision of simplifying construction connecting workers with the information they need to build and lower the cost and improve the quality of the spaces in which we work and play.
What You'll Do
- Agent architecture & orchestration: Design multi-tool agents (planning, function-calling, tool selection, state/trace) that can reason over BIM/VDC artifacts, field telemetry, and documents.
- RAG & retrieval: Stand up retrieval pipelines (chunking, hybrid search, filters, caching) over drawings, specs, RFIs, submittals, and jobsite logs; own evaluation (recall@k, answer quality) and latency budgets.
- Tool integrations: Connect agents to internal and partner systems (e.g., design files, project management, issue tracking), with robust auth, rate-limit handling, and audit logs.
- Workflow automation: Ship agent skills that draft submittals/RFIs, generate print/verification checklists, summarize shift reports, and surface layout conflicts.
- Safety & reliability: Implement guardrails, fallbacks, and red-team tests; define human-in-the-loop paths for high-impact actions.
- Data & MLOps: Own prompt/versioning strategy, datasets, offline/edge considerations, telemetry dashboards, and cost controls; partner with infra to productionize models.
- Field feedback loop: Work shoulder-to-shoulder with Portal/iPad/robot teams and visit jobsites to iterate on real user needs; document decisions and APIs clearly.
- Experience: 2 years building production ML/NLP or agentic systems; capable of owning projects end-to-end as a senior IC.
- LLM/agent skills: Strong with prompt engineering, function-calling/tool use, retrieval (vector DBs metadata filters), and evaluation harnesses.
- Software engineering: Proficiency in Python/TypeScript; shipping cloud services (REST/gRPC), queues, and data pipelines; excellent testing and observability.
- Data & search: Hands-on with embeddings, hybrid search, chunking strategies, and latency/recall tradeoffs at scale.
- Product mindset: Comfort turning ambiguous field problems into shipped workflows; clear written communication of trade-offs and assumptions.
- Bonus: BIM/VDC or construction data familiarity; vision models (OCR, plan understanding); on-device/edge inference; privacy/compliance experience.
- Ship a v1 agent that reliably answers and automates a prioritized set of construction tasks with measurable quality and latency SLAs.
- Establish an evaluation suite and dashboards for grounding, safety, and cost/1K tasks.
- Integrate with at least two high-leverage tools/workflows used by our field and customer teams.
- Create internal docs and playbooks so others can extend agent skills safely. (We use explicit, time-bound outcomes in Dusty scorecards to align expectations.)
- Experience with BIM APIs or construction platforms; jobsite or operations background.
- Prior work on robotics/IoT data or human-in-the-loop review flows.
Mountain View, CA; we collaborate in person for speed and cross-functional alignment, with occasional travel to jobsites and customer offices.
Why You Should Join:
In joining our team, you'll become an important part of a small and fast-growing company. We are daring to accomplish something big, do you want to be a critical part of Dusty's success? We are deeply committed to our mission, and we believe in removing roadblocks that distract us from reaching our goals.
To that end, we offer an unlimited vacation policy, a 401k with employer match, reasonable work hours, and flexible schedules. We know that our best work happens when we feel well-rested and capable of focusing all of our energy on making Dusty successful!
Strong, effective teams are composed of people with a diverse set of backgrounds and experiences who bring a variety of perspectives to their work. We actively encourage applications from a diverse pool, including those from historically under-represented groups such as women, people of color, people who identify LGBTQ, people with disabilities, and immigrants.
Our Code of Conduct:
Dusty Robotics exists to serve a wide variety of customers from all walks of life. We believe that our mission is best served in an environment that is friendly, safe, accepting, and free of intimidation or harassment. We do not tolerate abusive behavior.
- We are not accepting unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters or agencies
