Frontier AI Agent Engineer: Production-Ready Applied AI

Scale AI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity equity

Learning & development stipend

Generous PTO

Job summary

Scale AI seeks a Frontier Agent Engineer to bridge cutting-edge AI research and production deployment for enterprise customers. You will design and deploy intelligent systems that combine frontier models with structured knowledge, retrieval, and traditional ML, across diverse industries.

You’ll own experiments, evaluate new models, and build production workflows with guardrails, monitoring, and human oversight. A strong background in Python, LLMs, and cloud tooling is required.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of software engineering, ML, 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, or retrieval systems.
• Strong understanding of ML fundamentals and modern language models.
• Experience designing or evaluating AI systems using quantitative metrics.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work with enterprise customers.

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy production AI agents leveraging LLMs, retrieval, memory, and tool use.
• Architect intelligent systems combining LLMs, machine learning, structured knowledge, and enterprise data.
• Develop multi-agent systems coordinating reasoning, planning, and human oversight.
• Translate frontier AI research into production systems by evaluating new models and prompting techniques.
• Own experimentation lifecycles from hypotheses to production rollout.
• Build guardrails, tracing, monitoring, and evaluation pipelines for safe deployment.

Skills

Python

Production AI

OpenAI tools

Agent frameworks

Vector databases

Retrieval systems

Communication with customers

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Observability tooling

Job description

Scale AI seeks a Frontier Agent Engineer to bridge cutting-edge AI research and production deployment for enterprise customers. You will design and deploy intelligent systems that combine frontier models with structured knowledge, retrieval, and traditional ML, across diverse industries.

You’ll own experiments, evaluate new models, and build production workflows with guardrails, monitoring, and human oversight. A strong background in Python, LLMs, and cloud tooling is required.