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Staff Engineer, Applied AI (Customer Agent)

Boston💼 Full-time💰 $176,000–$176,000🗓 2026-09-11 → 2026-09-27

Core

Set technical and product direction for a 0-to-1 agentic customer support system, handling orchestration, evaluation, guardrails, and failure handling for non-deterministic AI agents.

Role type

Staff Engineer, Applied AI (Agentic Systems)

Builds

Production conversational AI agents for brand customer support

Domain

Ecommerce, Customer Support, Generative AI

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Production agentic system architecture, non-deterministic failure handling, system evaluation frameworks, security & abuse prevention, technical strategy, hands-on coding, cross-functional partnership

Preferred skills

Multi-tenant agent platform experience, 0-to-1 product building, AI observability, human-in-the-loop workflows

Technologies

LLMs, Agentic Orchestration Frameworks, Evaluation Systems

Responsibilities

Define architecture and patterns for agentic systems, solve complex technical problems in orchestration and reliability, mentor engineers through design reviews, partner with product and data science teams, evaluate emerging AI technologies for production

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with strategic scope

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