Lead AI Engineer for Autonomous Agents

Silver.dev; Argentina; On-site; ARS 185,448,000 - 278,173,000; Full time

Job summary

Silver.dev is seeking a hands-on AI Engineer to own the architecture of an autonomous agent platform. You will lead the technical direction, design multi-agent orchestration, and build AI-powered backend services on top of major LLM APIs.

This is a high-impact leadership role that blends architecture with hands-on engineering. You will ship production code, shape engineering standards, improve agent behavior in production, and guide the team through scalable practices as the company advances its

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Leadership experience at an early-stage company (Founding Engineer, Tech Lead, etc.).
• Hands-on experience building multi-agent systems and orchestration.
• Experience with self-improving/self-evolving agent harnesses.
• Strong backend design for APIs, services and data flows.
• Experience with LLM-based systems, prompts, embeddings, retrieval and eval.
• Daily hands-on work with AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, OpenAI Codex).

Responsibilities

• Own system architecture and key technical decisions for the platform.
• Design and build multi-agent orchestration infrastructure from idea to launch.
• Develop self-improving agent harnesses, feedback loops, and memory.
• Maintain AI-powered backend services atop LLM APIs (Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini).
• Write production code around agent runtime and orchestration.
• Improve AI behavior in production via prompt engineering, retries and fallbacks.
• Translate complex tech challenges into milestones and roadmap.
• Set engineering standards for reviews, testing, observability, releases.
• Lead and support the team while staying deeply involved in implementation.

Skills

Multi-agent systems

Backend engineering

Architectural leadership

Prompt engineering

LLM-based systems

Agent orchestration

Production code

Code reviews & testing

Observability

Team leadership

Tools

LLM APIs

Anthropic

OpenAI

Gemini

TypeScript

Node.js

Vercel AI SDK

PostgreSQL

pgvector

Job description

Silver.dev is seeking a hands-on AI Engineer to own the architecture of an autonomous agent platform. You will lead the technical direction, design multi-agent orchestration, and build AI-powered backend services on top of major LLM APIs.

This is a high-impact leadership role that blends architecture with hands-on engineering. You will ship production code, shape engineering standards, improve agent behavior in production, and guide the team through scalable practices as the company advances its