Frontier AI Agent Engineer — Production Systems

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision coverage

Equity compensation

Retirement benefits

Learning and development stipend

Generous PTO

Job summary

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

You will design, evaluate, and deploy intelligent systems that combine frontier models with structured data, retrieval, and traditional ML. You will work across a portfolio of AI challenges, building multi-agent systems and production workflows with strong emphasis on reliability, safety, and measurable business impact.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of software engineering, machine learning, or applied AI experience.
• Strong Python programming skills.
• Experience building production AI systems using LLMs.
• Experience with OpenAI, Claude, MCP, agent frameworks, vector databases, or retrieval systems.
• Strong understanding of machine learning fundamentals and modern language models.
• Experience designing or evaluating AI systems using quantitative metrics.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work directly with enterprise customers.

Responsibilities

• Bridge the gap between cutting-edge AI research and production deployment.
• Design, evaluate, and deploy intelligent systems that combine frontier models with structured knowledge and enterprise data.
• Work directly with enterprise customers to understand business problems and translate them into production architectures.
• Develop and deploy production AI agents and multi-agent systems across industries.
• Evaluate new models, prompting techniques, reasoning paradigms, and agent architectures in production contexts.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure reliability, observability, and cost efficiency of AI systems.

Skills

Python programming

LLMs production

OpenAI

Claude

Agent frameworks

Vector databases

Retrieval systems

ML fundamentals

Quantitative evaluation

Enterprise communication

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

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

You will design, evaluate, and deploy intelligent systems that combine frontier models with structured data, retrieval, and traditional ML. You will work across a portfolio of AI challenges, building multi-agent systems and production workflows with strong emphasis on reliability, safety, and measurable business impact.