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Agent Engineer

Palo Alto💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-24 → 2026-09-25

Core

Building an autonomous executive assistant by defining agent capabilities, translating model behaviors into reliable workflows, and ensuring production trustworthiness.

Role type

Senior IC Agent Engineer (Platform & Product)

Builds

Custom Python agent harness, Django services, React interfaces, and platform abstractions for agent composition.

Domain

AI productivity, autonomous agents, platform engineering

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Python, Django, React, TypeScript, asynchronous systems, agent orchestration, tool calling, context/state management, API integrations, analytical debugging, system design

Preferred skills

LangChain, AutoGen, latency/cost optimization in distributed systems, autonomous systems/robotics background

Technologies

Python, Django, React, TypeScript, LangChain, AutoGen

Responsibilities

Investigate advances in reasoning/planning/memory to identify product opportunities; build and evolve custom Python agent harness; design agent tools and integrations across email, calendars, messaging, browsers, and CRMs; own capabilities end-to-end including observability and production operations; build platform abstractions for composition and extension; improve latency, cost, reliability, and safety; partner with evaluations team to define expected behavior and fix trust breakdowns; set technical direction on ambiguous problems.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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