Frontier AI Agent Engineer for Production Systems

Scale AI, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Scale AI, Inc. is seeking a Staff Frontier Agent Engineer (Applied AI) to bridge cutting-edge research with production deployment for enterprise customers.

You will design, evaluate, and deploy intelligent systems that combine frontier models with structured knowledge, retrieval, and traditional ML. You will work across a diverse portfolio of AI challenges spanning multiple industries, building multi-agent systems and customer intelligence platforms that ship as production capabilities and drive

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering, machine learning, or applied AI experience.
• Strong Python programming skills.
• Experience building production AI systems using LLMs.
• Experience with modern AI tooling, including OpenAI, Claude, MCP, agent frameworks, vector databases.

Skills

Python programming

Production AI systems development

Experience with LLMs

Research & experimentation

Tools

OpenAI

Claude

MCP

vector databases

agent frameworks

Job description

Scale AI, Inc. is seeking a Staff Frontier Agent Engineer (Applied AI) to bridge cutting-edge research with production deployment for enterprise customers.

You will design, evaluate, and deploy intelligent systems that combine frontier models with structured knowledge, retrieval, and traditional ML. You will work across a diverse portfolio of AI challenges spanning multiple industries, building multi-agent systems and customer intelligence platforms that ship as production capabilities and drive