Senior AI Systems Engineer – Backend & Agents

Kraken; Chile; On-site; CLP 24,000,000 - 40,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Kraken’s Agent Systems team is building AI-powered agents that automate internal workflows and integrate with multiple internal APIs. You will design inference pipelines and prototype quickly to validate behaviors.

This 0→1 environment requires pragmatic execution, production-grade reliability, and close collaboration with product, infrastructure, and internal operations to scale agility across the organization.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building and shipping production software systems.
• Strong backend engineering fundamentals (APIs, distributed systems, data modeling, reliability).
• Experience building fullstack systems, with comfort across backend and occasional frontend surfaces.
• Hands-on experience working with AI/ML systems, LLMs, or inference pipelines in production.
• Ability to prototype rapidly while maintaining a clear path to production-grade architecture.
• Strong systems thinking — able to reason about orchestration, failure modes, and observability.
• Comfort operating in ambiguous, 0->1 environments with high ownership.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship AI-powered agent systems that automate internal workflows and decision paths
• Design and implement inference pipelines that reason over user interactions across internal systems
• Prototype quickly to validate agent behaviors, then productionize what proves valuable
• Architect backend services that integrate with multiple internal APIs and data sources
• Define patterns for safe, observable, and controllable agent execution
• Collaborate cross-functionally to identify high-leverage automation opportunities
• Improve system speed, reliability, and signal quality as usage scales
• Contribute to foundational design decisions for a 0->1 agent platform

Skills

Backend engineering

APIs

Distributed systems

Data modeling

Reliability

Fullstack

AI/ML systems

Prototype to production

Observability

Ambiguity tolerance

Job description

Kraken’s Agent Systems team is building AI-powered agents that automate internal workflows and integrate with multiple internal APIs. You will design inference pipelines and prototype quickly to validate behaviors.

This 0→1 environment requires pragmatic execution, production-grade reliability, and close collaboration with product, infrastructure, and internal operations to scale agility across the organization.