Staff Engineer, AI Agents Platform

Nominal; Greater London; In loco; GBP 180.000 - 220.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Unlimited PTO and sick leave

Free lunch, snacks, and coffee

Professional Development Stipend

Annual company retreat

Hardware sensor stipend

Employee-friendly equity terms

In-office 5 days per week

Descrizione del lavoro

Nominal is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the UK to shape the hardware AI platform and guide the Nominal MCP and internal agents. You will design the agent harness, define the shared tool layer, and set technical direction for the platform team that builds on it.

You’ll work across orchestration, retrieval, model routing, and system reliability, driving production-grade agent architectures while mentoring other engineers in a fast-moving hardware-software environment.

Competenze

• 8+ years building production systems, including real experience shipping LLM or agent systems to users.
• Strong distributed-systems and backend fundamentals; you've owned systems where reliability mattered.
• Opinions about agent architecture (tool design, context management, autonomy, failure handling) and the judgment to change them when data says so.
• A track record of setting technical direction across a team and raising the bar for the engineers around you.
• You build with modern AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex) every day, and stay curious and open to better ways of working.

Mansioni

• Design and build the agent harness: orchestration, planning, tool calling, memory, and background agents that run long investigations on their own.
• Own the shared tool layer that our agents and external agents (via MCP) both use, so every capability we build works everywhere.
• Build how agents assemble context: retrieval across test data, documents, designs, and simulations, including sensor data far too large to fit in a context window.
• Make model choice a decision, not a dependency: routing, cost, latency, and fallbacks across frontier models.
• Partner with evals to make quality measurable, and with the platform team on how the context layer grows.
• Set the architecture other engineers build on, and raise the bar through design reviews and mentorship.

Conoscenze

Production systems

LLM/agent systems

Distributed systems

Agent architecture

Technical leadership

Descrizione del lavoro

Nominal is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the UK to shape the hardware AI platform and guide the Nominal MCP and internal agents. You will design the agent harness, define the shared tool layer, and set technical direction for the platform team that builds on it.

You’ll work across orchestration, retrieval, model routing, and system reliability, driving production-grade agent architectures while mentoring other engineers in a fast-moving hardware-software environment.