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Frontier Agents Engineer (Applied AI)
Scale AIAI Infrastructure company
San Francisco, United States$180,000 - $225,000 USDSenior
Accel
Y Combinator
Founders Fund
Index Ventures
Coatue
Meta
Data & AI
About the role
TL;DR
Engineer production AI agents by combining frontier models with enterprise data and software.
- •Scale AI is seeking a Frontier Agents Engineer (Applied AI) to bridge the gap between cutting-edge AI research and production deployment.
- •You will design, evaluate, and deploy intelligent systems for enterprise customers, combining frontier models with structured knowledge and enterprise software.
- •Key Responsibilities Design and deploy production AI agents leveraging LLMs, reasoning, retrieval, and tool use.
- •Architect intelligent systems combining LLMs, traditional ML, and enterprise data.
- •Develop evaluation frameworks and measure success through business outcomes.
- •Partner directly with enterprise customers to understand challenges and translate them into AI architectures.
- •Requirements 4+ years of software engineering, machine learning, or applied AI experience.
- •Strong Python programming skills and experience building production AI systems using LLMs.
- •Experience with modern AI tooling (OpenAI, Claude, agent frameworks, vector databases).
- •Strong understanding of machine learning fundamentals and modern language models.
- •Excellent communication skills and ability to work directly with enterprise customers.
Required skills
PythonLLMsOpenAI APIAnthropic APILangChainHugging FaceNLPDockerKubernetesCI/CD
Nice-to-have skills
AWSGoogle CloudAzure
Domain expertise
aideveloper-tools
Benefits & perks
Equity, Health insurance, Dental insurance, Vision insurance, Retirement benefits, Learning and development stipend, Generous PTO, Commuter stipend
Tech stack
PythonOpenAI APIAnthropic APILangChainHugging FaceNLPLLMsAWSGoogle CloudAzureDockerKubernetesCI/CD