Senior Software Engineer (AI Agents)
$200,000–$240,000 year
On-siteNew York City, New York, United States or San Francisco, California, United States
Job Summary
Embed with customers and operators to understand supply chain workflows, then design and ship production agent harnesses on frontier LLMs that automate meaningful tasks. Build agent systems featuring tool use, sub-agents, retrieval, and orchestration while architecting the data, services, and APIs required to integrate with customers' WMS, TMS, and ERP environments. Own evaluation as a first-class discipline by creating datasets, rubrics, and graders from real traces to prove product impact. Codify repeatable deployment patterns to accelerate customer rollouts. Partner with the CTO and product teams to take 0-to-1 ideas to scaled deployments.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of software engineering
- 1+ year shipping LLM- or agent-based features into production
- Strong in Python and/or TypeScript/Node.js
- Comfortable designing APIs, distributed systems, and data models in PostgreSQL
- Hands-on with the modern agent stack: production-scale prompt engineering, evaluation frameworks, orchestration patterns, and frontier model APIs
- A track record of building in fast, ambiguous environments—ideally at a vertical AI, AI-agent, forward-deployed, or data-product company
- Excellent written and verbal communication
Desired Qualifications
- Builder with an AI operator's instinct
- Domain-immersed
- High-agency in ambiguity
- Sweat both ends of the stack
- Experience shipping real product on top of LLMs—not just chat wrappers
- Experience designing agent harnesses, structured tools, written evals, and tuned prompts against production traces
- Thinking in capability, reliability, and unit economics
- Enjoy time with the people who do the work—learning an industry's vocabulary, edge cases, and operational tempo
- Experience running a customer workshop
- Experience writing a clean design doc
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