Staff Backend Engineer, AI Systems
Core
Design and build core backend systems and platforms for Mural's agentic AI-driven collaboration experiences, enabling intelligent agents to reason over product context and act reliably at scale.
Role type
Staff Backend Engineer (AI Systems)
Builds
Core backend systems for agent orchestration, durable execution, contextual memory, tool integration, observability, and evaluation
Domain
Generative AI, Agentic Systems, Visual Collaboration
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Distributed systems design, System architecture, API design, Observability, Incident response, Technical documentation, Cross-functional collaboration, Full-stack development, LLM evaluation, Knowledge graphs
Preferred skills
Agentic systems concepts, Tool use, Context retrieval, Embeddings, Retrieval systems, Graph-based data modeling, Entity resolution
Technologies
Azure OpenAI, Node, MongoDB
Responsibilities
Build core backend systems for agent orchestration and execution; Design scalable services and APIs for multi-step workflows; Develop agent memory layers for context and long-term management; Create infrastructure for monitoring and evaluating agent behavior; Define technical direction and architecture for agentic AI; Mentor engineers and establish best practices
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with strategic influence
