Applied AI Engineer: Build Agentic Tools & Workflows

Arcade.dev; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 179,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Arcade.dev is looking for an experienced software engineer to design and ship innovative agentic tools that extend beyond conventional API wrappers. This is an opportunity to join a team that is at the forefront of transforming AI applications into actionable agents.

The successful candidate will have at least 5 years of software engineering experience, strong Python skills, and a background in building and deploying applied AI systems. A competitive salary in the range of $179,000 to $240,000 USD is offered.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 2 years shipping production ML or applied‑AI systems.
• Strong Python skills.
• Experience designing or composing multi‑tool / multi‑agent workflows that produced real outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship agentic tools that go beyond deterministic API wrappers.
• Build an agent harness that automates tool creation.
• Design workflows that compose tools into higher‑level abstractions.

Skills

Software engineering experience

Strong Python skills

LLM application depth

Multi-tool / multi-agent workflows

Built evals at scale

Statistics fluency

Comfort with multiple models

Ability to work with ambiguity

Desire to ship

Job description

Arcade.dev is looking for an experienced software engineer to design and ship innovative agentic tools that extend beyond conventional API wrappers. This is an opportunity to join a team that is at the forefront of transforming AI applications into actionable agents.

The successful candidate will have at least 5 years of software engineering experience, strong Python skills, and a background in building and deploying applied AI systems. A competitive salary in the range of $179,000 to $240,000 USD is offered.