CareerPlan

Staff AI Engineer

Full-time$275k–$300k2026-10-26 → 2026-11-10

Core

Design, build, and operate production AI agent systems, focusing on reliability, security, and cost-efficiency for testing real customer applications.

Role type

Staff AI Engineer (Agent Systems)

Builds

Production-grade AI agent platforms, evaluation frameworks, observability tools, and shared engineering standards.

Domain

AI Agents, LLM Operations, Distributed Systems, Cybersecurity

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Technical leadership, LLM-based agent architecture, agent orchestration, tool use, context and memory management, backend and distributed systems, production observability, security risk assessment, cost optimization, incident investigation.

Preferred skills

GCP, Go, Kubernetes, sandboxed environment execution, offensive security, AI coding tools integration.

Technologies

Model Context Protocol (MCP), managed cloud model platforms, distributed tracing, CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

Set technical direction for agent systems, design shared foundations (evaluation, observability), establish engineering standards, lead model selection and cost optimization, partner on production readiness, mentor engineers, work with security teams on safe execution.

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with strategic scope