Senior AI Engineer, Tools & Agents
$200,000–$240,000 year
HybridSan Francisco, California, United States
Job Summary
Design and operate the agent-facing integration surface for TwelveLabs' MCP server and Jockey, enabling AI agents to discover, invoke, and reason over multimodal video and image capabilities. Own the end-to-end auth and access substrate, including OAuth, RBAC, and multi-tenant isolation, while defining enterprise-readiness layers for API usage tracking, rate limiting, and failure handling. Collaborate directly with research teams to translate frontier video understanding models into durable, production-grade product surfaces. Manage the full lifecycle of developer-facing interfaces, ensuring reliability under real load and grounding the platform in system constraints.
Required Qualifications
- You've shipped real agentic or LLM-powered systems. Not demos, but production systems with real users and real failure modes you had to debug and fix.
- You understand how retrieval, reasoning, and agent orchestration fit together as a system.
- You've owned a developer-facing or external API end-to-end, with real decisions about contracts, versioning, and the experience of building on top of your surface.
- You've built authentication and authorization in production, OAuth, OIDC, RBAC, or multi-tenant isolation, as a primary owner and not a consumer of someone else's framework.
- You've thought seriously about enterprise-readiness: what it takes to go from a capability that works to a platform that a large customer will trust with their data and workflows.
- You've operated in a fast-moving environment before, a startup, a hypergrowth company, or an AI-first team where you shipped under ambiguity without heavy process support.
- Location: San Francisco. Onsite or hybrid. No fully remote option.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with MCP, A2A protocols, or the broader agent ecosystem. You've contributed to or built on these surfaces and understand where they're headed.
- Hypergrowth pedigree from a technically excellent startup.
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