AI Agent Engineer - Build Reliable, Scalable Work Bots

OpenKrill; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenKrill in Palo Alto, CA, is hiring a seasoned software engineer to build and operate production systems for AI-powered productivity tools. You will translate advances in reasoning, planning, memory, and tool use into reliable product capabilities.

You will own Python services, Django APIs, React interfaces, and data models, with a focus on latency, cost, and reliability. Candidates should have 5+ years building end-to-end systems and strong Python skills.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building and operating production software systems end to end.
• Strong Python skills with Django, APIs, React, and TypeScript.
• Hands-on experience with agent systems, planning, tool calling, state management, retries, and orchestration.
• Experience building external API and business software integrations.
• Ability to turn loosely defined user needs into clear product capabilities and reusable abstractions.
• Experience debugging prompts, model outputs, and production signals to guide improvements.
• Background in LLMs or prompt engineering is valuable; experience optimizing distributed systems for latency and reliability.

Responsibilities

• Explore advances in agent technology and identify opportunities to solve user problems.
• Translate model capabilities into reliable, reusable skills and workflows.
• Build and evolve Python agent systems, including orchestration, context management, retries, and error recovery.
• Design integrations with email, calendars, messaging, browsers, documents, CRMs, and other business software.
• Own capabilities across Python services, Django, APIs, React interfaces, data models, background jobs, and production operations.
• Create platform abstractions that simplify composition, extension, and maintenance.

Skills

Python

Django

APIs

React

TypeScript

LLMs

Debugging production systems

Prompts & model evaluation

Education

Engineering degree

Tools

Git

PostgreSQL

Docker

Job description

OpenKrill in Palo Alto, CA, is hiring a seasoned software engineer to build and operate production systems for AI-powered productivity tools. You will translate advances in reasoning, planning, memory, and tool use into reliable product capabilities.

You will own Python services, Django APIs, React interfaces, and data models, with a focus on latency, cost, and reliability. Candidates should have 5+ years building end-to-end systems and strong Python skills.