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Lead Software Engineer - ML Agent Platform

USAFull-time$61k–$101k2026-10-18 → 2026-11-10

Core

Design, develop, and operate NEO, an agent runtime platform for Payments Technology, including agent execution, sandboxing, and evaluation systems.

Role type

Lead Software Engineer (ML Agent Platform)

Builds

NEO agent runtime platform components (execution, sandboxing, A2A/MCP integrations, memory, retrieval, evaluation)

Domain

Financial services / Machine Learning / Cloud-native

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Python, system design, LLM-powered system building, agentic systems development, CI/CD, cloud-native architecture, Kubernetes, financial services IT systems knowledge, responsible AI engineering practices

Preferred skills

LLMs and RAG architectures, vector databases, Graph RAG, agent protocols (A2A, MCP), multi-agent orchestration, sandboxed code execution (Firecracker, Kata, gVisor), agent memory systems, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), data observability tools

Technologies

Python, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, LLM, RAG, MCP, A2A, Cloud, CI/CD

Responsibilities

Design and build agent execution and sandboxing systems; develop secure production code and review/debug colleague code; lead adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices; implement permission-aware agent execution with runtime policy checks; lead evaluations of vendors and internal teams; mentor lead and senior engineers

Seniority

Lead, hands-on IC with mentorship responsibilities