Frontier AI Agent Engineer (Production Systems)

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

Job summary

Scale AI is seeking a Frontier Agent Engineer (Applied AI) to bridge cutting-edge AI research and production deployment. You will design, evaluate, and deploy intelligent systems that combine frontier models with structured knowledge, retrieval, and enterprise software for enterprise customers.

You will work across diverse AI challenges, building multi-agent systems and customer intelligence platforms while shipping reliable production workflows at scale.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of software engineering, machine learning, or applied AI experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and build frontier AI systems that integrate LLMs, memory, retrieval, and tool use for enterprise use cases.

Skills

Python

Production AI systems

LLMs

AI tooling

ML fundamentals

Quantitative evaluation

Enterprise communication

Tools

OpenAI

Claude

MCP

Agent frameworks

Vector databases

Retrieval systems

Job description

Scale AI is seeking a Frontier Agent Engineer (Applied AI) to bridge cutting-edge AI research and production deployment. You will design, evaluate, and deploy intelligent systems that combine frontier models with structured knowledge, retrieval, and enterprise software for enterprise customers.

You will work across diverse AI challenges, building multi-agent systems and customer intelligence platforms while shipping reliable production workflows at scale.