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Applied AI Engineer – Agentic Workflows

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Location

California

Posted

67 days ago

Salary

Not specified

Bachelor Degree3 yrs expEnglishJava ScriptPythonReactType Script

Job Description

• Work with enterprise customers and internal teams to turn business workflows into scalable, production-ready agentic AI systems. • Design and build LLM-powered agents that reason, plan, and act across tools and data sources with enterprise-grade reliability. • Balance rapid iteration with enterprise requirements, evolving prototypes into stable, reusable solutions. • Define and apply evaluation and quality standards to measure success, failures, and regressions. • Debug real-world agent behavior and systematically improve prompts, workflows, tools, and guardrails. • Contribute to shared frameworks and patterns that enable consistent delivery across customers.

Job Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
Strong programming skills in Python and/or JavaScript/TypeScript.
3+ years of experience building and shipping production software; 2+ years working with LLMs or AI APIs.
Hands-on experience with modern LLMs (e.g., GPT, Claude, Gemini), vector databases, and agent/orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, or custom solutions).
Practical experience with RAG, agent workflows, evaluation, and performance optimization.
Strong agent design skills, including prompt engineering, tool use, multi-step agent workflows (e.g. ReAct), and failure handling.
Ability to reason about and balance trade-offs between customization and reuse, as well as autonomy, control, cost, latency, and risk.
Strong communication skills and experience leading technical discussions with customers or partners.

Benefits

An open and inclusive culture and work environment
Work closely with a team on the cutting edge of AI research
Weekly lunch stipend, in-office lunches & snacks
Full health and dental benefits, including a separate budget to take care of your mental health
100% Parental Leave top-up for up to 6 months
Personal enrichment benefits towards arts and culture, fitness and well-being, quality time, and workspace improvement
Remote-flexible, offices in Toronto, New York, San Francisco, London and Paris, as well as a co-working stipend
6 weeks of vacation (30 working days!)