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Senior Software Engineer Agentic AI Foundations About the Role We're hiring a founding engineer to design and build the core platform, systems, and primitives that enable our transition from traditional software workflows to agent-native operations. This is a zero-to-one role with broad scope across applied AI, platform engineering, and system design, you'll shape the architecture, reliability, and safety of agentic systems that power internal workflows and, over time, customer-facing products. What You'll Do <ul style="margin:0px;padding-left:40px;">
<li style="line-height:1.2;font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);margin:0px;">Design and build a vendor-agnostic agent platform, orchestration, tool use, memory, and runtime systems, reusable across teams</li>
<li style="line-height:1.2;font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);margin:0px;">Build evaluation and reliability frameworks (metrics, harnesses, pipelines) to measure agent performance, robustness, and safety in production</li>
<li style="line-height:1.2;font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);margin:0px;">Implement safety and governance controls: guardrails, policy enforcement, and human-in-the-loop review mechanisms</li>
<li style="line-height:1.2;font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);margin:0px;">Build retrieval, grounding, and memory systems that keep agents accurate and context-aware</li>
<li style="line-height:1.2;font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);margin:0px;">Prototype and productionize agent behaviors including planning, multi-step execution, and tool coordination</li>
<li style="line-height:1.2;font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);margin:0px;">Partner with product and engineering teams to identify high-impact use cases and ship agent-powered workflows</li>
<li style="line-height:1.2;font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);margin:0px;">Define best practices, design patterns, and paved paths for secure, observable, scalable agent systems</li>
<li style="line-height:1.2;font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);margin:0px;">Inform architecture choices, surface technical risks, and contribute to roadmap prioritization</li>
</ul> What You'll Bring <ul style="margin:0px;padding-left:40px;">
<li style="line-height:1.2;font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);margin:0px;">5+ years of software engineering experience with a strong background in large-scale distributed systems, backend platforms, or infrastructure</li>
<li style="line-height:1.2;font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);margin:0px;">3+ years designing and operating production-grade systems with clear reliability, performance, and observability requirements</li>
<li style="line-height:1.2;font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);margin:0px;">Hands-on experience with LLMs, agentic AI, or intelligent applications in production</li>
<li style="line-height:1.2;font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);margin:0px;">Proven ability to build from first principles in ambiguous, zero-to-one environments</li>
<li style="line-height:1.2;font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);margin:0px;">Familiarity with AI safety or policy systems: guardrails, content filtering, access controls, or audit mechanisms</li>
<li style="line-height:1.2;font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);margin:0px;">Proficiency in at least one modern backend language (Java, Go, Python, or similar) and comfort with cloud-native infrastructure</li>
</ul> Preferred <ul style="margin:0px;padding-left:40px;">
<li style="line-height:1.2;font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);margin:0px;">Experience with multi-agent systems, workflow orchestration, or distributed coordination frameworks</li>
<li style="line-height:1.2;font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);margin:0px;">Exposure to agent platforms, tool registries, memory systems, or LLM routing/caching/fine-tuning pipelines</li>
<li style="line-height:1.2;font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);margin:0px;">Experience with evaluation frameworks, experimentation platforms, or ML benchmarking</li>
<li style="line-height:1.2;font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);margin:0px;">Background in retrieval systems, knowledge graphs, or data platforms for LLM grounding</li>
<li style="line-height:1.2;font-family:Arial;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);margin:0px;">Prior experience in a founding or platform-building role defining patterns for other engineering teams</li>
</ul>

Senior Software Engineer  Agentic AI Foundations

About the Role

We're hiring a founding engineer to design and build the core
platform, systems, and primitives that enable our transition from
traditional software workflows to agent-native operations. This
is a zero-to-one role with broad scope across applied AI,
platform engineering, and system design, you'll shape the
architecture, reliability, and safety of agentic systems that
power internal workflows and, over time, customer-facing
products.

What You'll Do

* Design and build a vendor-agnostic agent platform,
orchestration, tool use, memory, and runtime systems, reusable
across teams
* Build evaluation and reliability frameworks (metrics,
harnesses, pipelines) to measure agent performance, robustness,
and safety in production
* Implement safety and governance controls: guardrails, policy
enforcement, and human-in-the-loop review mechanisms
* Build retrieval, grounding, and memory systems that keep agents
accurate and context-aware
* Prototype and productionize agent behaviors including planning,
multi-step execution, and tool coordination
* Partner with product and engineering teams to identify
high-impact use cases and ship agent-powered workflows
* Define best practices, design patterns, and paved paths for
secure, observable, scalable agent systems
* Inform architecture choices, surface technical risks, and
contribute to roadmap prioritization

What You'll Bring

* 5+ years of software engineering experience with a strong
background in large-scale distributed systems, backend platforms,
or infrastructure
* 3+ years designing and operating production-grade systems with
clear reliability, performance, and observability requirements
* Hands-on experience with LLMs, agentic AI, or intelligent
applications in production
* Proven ability to build from first principles in ambiguous,
zero-to-one environments
* Familiarity with AI safety or policy systems: guardrails,
content filtering, access controls, or audit mechanisms
* Proficiency in at least one modern backend language (Java, Go,
Python, or similar) and comfort with cloud-native infrastructure

Preferred

* Experience with multi-agent systems, workflow orchestration, or
distributed coordination frameworks
* Exposure to agent platforms, tool registries, memory systems,
or LLM routing/caching/fine-tuning pipelines
* Experience with evaluation frameworks, experimentation
platforms, or ML benchmarking
* Background in retrieval systems, knowledge graphs, or data
platforms for LLM grounding
* Prior experience in a founding or platform-building role
defining patterns for other engineering teams

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