Agentic AI Platform Engineer – Remote & Equity

Second Front Systems; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Employer-paid medical, dental, and vis

401(k) with company match

Wellness benefits

Equity incentive plan

Home office stipend

Professional development stipend

Flexible paid time off

Parental leave

Remote work opportunities

Referral bonus

Job summary

Second Front Systems in the United States is seeking an ambitious AI Software Engineer to design, build, and ship production agentic AI systems across LangGraph, LangChain, and tool-calling. You will operate cloud infrastructure—EKS, Terraform, Helm—and contribute to governance and evaluation.

Join a mission-driven team collaborating with Product and Engineering to deploy AI workflows, measure output quality, and translate research into practical, scalable products while ensuring security and

Qualifications

• 2+ years full‑time software, ML, or AI engineering experience with hands‑on production work building and shipping LLM‑based systems.
• Hands‑on experience building agentic AI systems with tool‑calling agents and multi‑step orchestration using LangGraph, LangChain, or equivalent.
• Production experience with Retrieval‑Augmented Generation including vector stores, embedding models, chunking strategies, and retrieval quality optimization.
• Experience deploying containerized AI services to cloud environments using Docker, Kubernetes (EKS preferred), and infrastructure as code (Terraform preferred).
• U.S. citizenship and residence in approved hiring hub: DC/Maryland/Virginia, Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill NC, Denver/Colorado Springs CO, or Dallas/Fort Worth TX.

Responsibilities

• Architect production agentic AI systems using LangGraph and LangChain with focus on reliability, traceability, and measurable output quality.
• Build agent components including ingestion pipelines, embedding strategies, chunking, retrieval, and re‑ranking, and tool suites across managed knowledge-base services, vector databases, and internal and external APIs.
• Connect agents to corporate tools and knowledge through Model Context Protocol, constructing both MCP servers and consuming clients.
• Establish and operate cloud infrastructure for R&D AI systems: Amazon EKS, Terraform, Helm, and GitOps delivery patterns.
• Measure agent and LLM output quality through evaluation and regression suites covering groundedness, faithfulness, relevance, and retrieval quality, running in CI.
• Partner with Product teams to scope high-leverage AI opportunities across workflows and advise on agent design, model selection and output quality standards.

Skills

LangGraph

LangChain

Tool-calling

Multi-step orchestration

Tools

Terraform

Helm

Kubernetes (EKS)

GitOps

Job description

Second Front Systems in the United States is seeking an ambitious AI Software Engineer to design, build, and ship production agentic AI systems across LangGraph, LangChain, and tool-calling. You will operate cloud infrastructure—EKS, Terraform, Helm—and contribute to governance and evaluation.

Join a mission-driven team collaborating with Product and Engineering to deploy AI workflows, measure output quality, and translate research into practical, scalable products while ensuring security and