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Software Engineer, Agent Systems

New York City💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-30 → 2026-09-26

Core

Build backend runtimes and distributed systems that enable AI agents to perform long-running work reliably across distributed environments.

Role type

Senior IC backend systems engineer (AI agent orchestration)

Builds

Orchestration services, execution environments, internal APIs, and persistence layers for AI agent products.

Domain

AI infrastructure / Distributed systems / Semiconductor industry

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Backend systems design, distributed systems architecture, API design, container orchestration, state management, failure recovery, observability, data modeling

Preferred skills

AI agent system experience, Kubernetes deep expertise, sandboxed code execution, reliability engineering

Technologies

Kubernetes, Postgres, Redis, Valkey

Responsibilities

Design execution models for AI capabilities, build orchestration services for autonomous workflows, develop state persistence and failure handling mechanisms, create containerized workload management systems, build developer abstractions for platform extension, facilitate technical design discussions on runtime architecture.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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