AI Agent Engineer
Core
Design and build production-grade AI agents that allow users to query enterprise data via natural language, handling messy schemas and diverse access patterns.
Role type
Senior IC AI Agent Engineer
Builds
Production agentic features for Starburst's data intelligence platform (AIDA)
Domain
Enterprise Data Intelligence / AI Agents
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Agent architecture design, tool orchestration, multi-step reasoning, error recovery, production RAG pipelines, software engineering fundamentals, evaluation suite creation
Preferred skills
Enterprise data systems experience, observability pipelines for agentic systems, JVM-based systems, open-source contributions, function calling patterns
Technologies
LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, Semantic Kernel, Trino, Apache Iceberg, vector databases
Responsibilities
Design agent architectures with planning and memory; ship production-quality features with full ownership; build evaluation suites to catch hallucinations and grounding gaps; collaborate on integrating grounding and retrieval; drive technical standards through code; measure gains in task completion and accuracy
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC