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Staff Frontier Agents Engineer (Applied AI)
Scale AIAI Infrastructure company
San Francisco, United States$252,000 - $315,000 USDLead
Accel
Y Combinator
Founders Fund
Index Ventures
Coatue
Meta
Data & AI
About the role
TL;DR
Design, evaluate, and deploy production AI agents using frontier models and enterprise data.
- •Scale AI is seeking a Staff Frontier Agents Engineer to bridge the gap between cutting-edge AI research and production deployment.
- •You will work directly with enterprise customers to design, evaluate, and deploy intelligent systems that combine frontier models with structured knowledge, retrieval, traditional machine learning, and enterprise software.
- •Key Responsibilities Design and deploy production AI agents leveraging the latest advances in large language models, reasoning, retrieval, memory, and tool use.
- •Architect intelligent systems combining LLMs, traditional machine learning, structured knowledge, and enterprise data into reliable production workflows.
- •Own the full experimentation lifecycle, from hypothesis generation to production rollout, using rigorous evaluation frameworks.
- •Build production-quality AI systems with a strong emphasis on reliability, observability, latency, safety, and cost.
- •Partner directly with enterprise customers to understand their business challenges and translate them into production AI architectures.
- •Requirements 8+ years of software engineering, machine learning, or applied AI experience.
- •Strong Python programming skills.
- •Experience building production AI systems using LLMs.
- •Experience with modern AI tooling, including OpenAI, Claude, agent frameworks, vector databases, or retrieval systems.
- •Excellent communication skills and the ability to work directly with enterprise customers.
Required skills
PythonLLMsOpenAI APILangChainNLPDockerKubernetesCI/CD
Nice-to-have skills
Anthropic APIHugging FaceAWSGoogle CloudAzure
Domain expertise
aiproductivity
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