Agent Runtime Engineer (Fully Remote)

Big Wombat LLC; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Yaklabs is building a desktop AI application that turns knowledge workers into AI power users. A small, high-intensity team led by industry veterans is driving the project.

The role focuses on creating a fast agent runtime with dispatch, lifecycle management, and tool calling, along with an extensible extension platform and secure trust boundaries.

Qualifications

• Non-leaky abstractions and clear reasoning are essential for building robust systems.
• Ability to reason about looping feedback and compositional design.

Responsibilities

• Build agent runtime: dispatch, lifecycle, tool calling, retries.
• Build extension system and trust boundary.
• Design context system and inference layer.

Skills

Non-leaky abstractions

Compounding loops thinking

Job description

• Accountable memory, multi-agent collaboration, context on user's machine.
• Routing across models, trust, and permissions.

What You'll Do:

• Build agent runtime: dispatch, lifecycle, tool calling, retries.
• Build extension system and trust boundary.
• Design context system and inference layer.

Who You Are:

• Non-leaky abstractions and compounding loops thinking.

Yaklabs

Yaklabs is building a desktop AI application that turns knowledge workers into AI power users. The small, high-intensity team is funded and led by industry veterans.