AI Agent Development Lead — Staff Engineer

Visa Hunt; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 256,000 - 276,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Flexible PTO

Wellness reimbursement

Lunch stipend

Donation-matching

Job summary

Postman is the world’s leading API platform, empowering millions of developers and thousands of organizations. We are headquartered in San Francisco, with a broad global presence and a focus on safe, interpretable AI agents that operate across complex environments.

As a Member of Technical Staff and AI Agent Development Lead, you will steer design, development, and deployment of next‑gen AI agents, collaborating with research, product, and engineering teams to deliver reliable AI technology

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading technical teams in AI or ML engineering, preferably building AI agents or assistants.
• Strong software engineering skills with Python and familiarity with ML frameworks (JAX, PyTorch, TensorFlow).
• Deep understanding of language models, reinforcement learning, and AI safety/alignment concepts.

Responsibilities

• Lead a cross‑functional engineering team focused on AI agent development, from design to production deployment.
• Design and implement AI agent architectures leveraging state‑of‑the art language models and related technologies.
• Collaborate with research scientists on scalable experiments and productize research innovations.
• Drive the development of agent capabilities including dialogue management, decision making, and autonomy.
• Ensure AI safety and alignment principles are integrated throughout the lifecycle.
• Mentor and grow technical staff, fostering collaboration and innovation.
• Evaluate new tools and methodologies to enhance AI agent capabilities.
• Partner with product and policy teams to align AI agent features with user needs and ethics.

Skills

Python

ML frameworks

Language models

Reinforcement learning

AI safety

Cloud infrastructure

Tools

JAX

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Job description

Postman is the world’s leading API platform, empowering millions of developers and thousands of organizations. We are headquartered in San Francisco, with a broad global presence and a focus on safe, interpretable AI agents that operate across complex environments.

As a Member of Technical Staff and AI Agent Development Lead, you will steer design, development, and deployment of next‑gen AI agents, collaborating with research, product, and engineering teams to deliver reliable AI technology