Autonomous AI Engineer — Shape a Multi-Agent Platform with Equity

Fuel Talent LLC; Bellevue, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Fuel Talent LLC is seeking an Applied AI Engineer in Bellevue, WA to design and build the core AI agent framework powering an autonomous enterprise execution platform. You will work beyond prompt engineering, architecting orchestration systems, memory layers, and agent pipelines from the ground up.

You will collaborate with leadership to influence product strategy and technical architecture, while shaping the hiring roadmap with a hands-on approach in a fast-growing startup environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years building production AI/ML systems with real users and real traffic.
• Hands-on experience designing multi-step LLM applications with tool use and structured outputs.
• Strong understanding of RAG architectures, embeddings, hybrid retrieval, and re-ranking techniques.
• Proficiency in Java, Python, asynchronous programming patterns, REST APIs, and schema validation frameworks.
• Experience with evaluation-driven development and testing methodologies for AI systems.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced startup environment with high ownership and ambiguity.

Responsibilities

• Design multi-agent orchestration systems that detect, route, delegate, and resolve complex workflows autonomously.
• Implement episodic and semantic memory architectures, including vector databases, retrieval pipelines, and continuous learning mechanisms.
• Build action libraries and third‑party integrations across enterprise apps, identity systems, SaaS platforms, and knowledge repositories.
• Develop LLM evaluation frameworks including prompt versioning, regression testing, and model benchmarking.
• Architect human‑in‑the‑loop workflows with structured outputs, validation layers, retry logic, and graceful escalation paths.
• Instrument agent performance metrics, tracing, latency monitoring, and resolution analytics.

Skills

AI/ML systems

LLM orchestration

RAG architectures

Java

Python

REST APIs

Schema validation

Async patterns

Testing methodologies

Startup experience

Tools

Vector databases

Retrieval pipelines

Job description

Fuel Talent LLC is seeking an Applied AI Engineer in Bellevue, WA to design and build the core AI agent framework powering an autonomous enterprise execution platform. You will work beyond prompt engineering, architecting orchestration systems, memory layers, and agent pipelines from the ground up.

You will collaborate with leadership to influence product strategy and technical architecture, while shaping the hiring roadmap with a hands-on approach in a fast-growing startup environment.