Lead Agent Engineer
Remote · United States
Job Summary
Lead Agent Engineer to own the agent layer of the platform, including architecture, prompts, tool surfaces, multi-agent orchestration, and the eval loop, driving translation and dependency-mapping accuracy across unfamiliar legacy paradigms. The role requires building production agent code daily with subagents and multi-agent workflows, setting technical ceilings for core capabilities, and collaborating with the RAG & Eval Engineer. Requires a Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering or related field with 5+ years of experience, and strong fluency in TypeScript or Python. This fully remote role in the United States offers opportunities to work on frontier AI to modernize a decades-old system used by real users, with benefits and a clear path for career growth.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, plus 5 years of professional software engineering experience; equivalent experience may substitute for the degree requirement
- Has shipped at least one production agent (real users, real failure modes) and can describe in detail what broke and how it was fixed
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment
- Working fluency across the modern agent stack: tool use, MCP, evals, RAG, streaming, multi-agent coordination
- Strong TypeScript or Python
- Subagents and multi-agent workflows are a normal way of working
- Comfort with measurement, regression detection, and prompt-and-eval iteration
- Demonstrated experience in a remote work environment
- Prior architectural ownership of an agent platform; track record of establishing eval and prompt patterns for a team
- Open-source contributions to agent frameworks, MCP servers, or eval harnesses
Desired Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Has shipped at least one production agent with real users and failure modes
- Strong experience with TypeScript or Python
- Experience with multi-agent workflows and agent platforms
- Remote work experience in a distributed team
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