AI Agent Systems Engineer

Sekai

San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY)

Hybrid

USD 180,000 - 250,000

Full time

14 days+
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Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation: salary +equ
Full medical / health insurance

Job summary

Sekai is building the TikTok for mini apps—a fast-paced, AI-native consumer platform. We seek engineers who will own the end-to-end design of agent-driven app generation, focusing on systems-level thinking and reliable production deployment.

Responsibilities include building the agent harness layer, developing eval loops and testing, and designing model strategy for cost and latency. Remote-first, with ambitious, hands-on builders encouraged to apply.

Qualifications

  • Experience building agentic systems with tool use, orchestration, retries and context management.
  • Strong understanding of distributed / real-time systems.
  • Research-and-ship mindset with production readiness in Python and/or TypeScript.
  • Track record of shipping and operating production systems.
  • Translate user goals into system-design decisions.

Responsibilities

  • Designing and owning our agent harness layer and long-horizon workflows.
  • Developing robust evaluation loops, including eval harnesses and testing.
  • Designing model strategy for routing, benchmarking, reliability, cost and latency.

Skills

Agentic systems
Python
TypeScript
Distributed systems
Production systems
Product instincts

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

LangGraph
PydanticAI
Google ADK
Pi-mono
Vercel AI SDK

Job description

Sekai is building the TikTok for mini apps—a fast-paced, AI-native consumer platform. We seek engineers who will own the end-to-end design of agent-driven app generation, focusing on systems-level thinking and reliable production deployment.

Responsibilities include building the agent harness layer, developing eval loops and testing, and designing model strategy for cost and latency. Remote-first, with ambitious, hands-on builders encouraged to apply.

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