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Staff Engineer, Agentic AI

San Francisco💼 Full-time💰 $160,000–$250,000🗓 2026-09-29

Core

Design and lead the core agent intelligence layer that executes multi-step workflows across desktop CAD, simulation, and PLM tools for hardware engineers.

Role type

Staff Engineer, Agentic AI (Technical Lead)

Builds

Intelligent agents operating within proprietary desktop engineering software (CAD, PLM, simulation)

Domain

Engineering software (CAD, CAE, PLM) + Agentic AI

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

LLM application architecture, tool calling, state management, error recovery, model routing, context management, Python, evaluation frameworks, desktop automation (COM), user story mapping

Preferred skills

Public benchmarks, publications, open-source agentic AI projects

Technologies

Python, LLM function calling, tool APIs, observability, tracing, COM

Responsibilities

Lead development of agent intelligence layer, define evaluation frameworks, set token budgets, build reproducible evaluation infrastructure, translate user stories into testable evals, own agent architecture decisions, write production code and review designs, collaborate on POCs

Seniority

Staff, technical leadership with hands-on coding

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