Frontier AI Agent Engineer — Production Systems

United States Digital Space LLC; San Francisco, New York (CA, NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Scale AI is seeking a Frontier Agent Engineer (Forward Deployed Engineering) to work directly with strategic enterprise customers to architect, integrate, deploy, and operate production AI systems. You'll combine software engineering, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and frontier AI technologies to transform models into reliable enterprise software.

In this role you will design production agent architectures, deploy AI into mission-critical workflows, and help shape engineering best

Qualifications

• 4+ years of software engineering experience in distributed systems.
• Strong Python programming skills for production software.
• Experience with AI-powered apps using LLM APIs, agent frameworks, MCP, retrieval systems, or vector databases.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and modern production infra.
• Excellent communication and ability to work with enterprise teams.
• Strong problem-solving and ability to iterate toward production solutions.

Responsibilities

• Architect and deploy production AI systems for enterprise environments.
• Integrate with customer systems and workflows.
• Collaborate with enterprise engineering teams to deploy AI into production.
• Ensure reliability, observability, and security in production AI deployments.

Skills

Distributed systems

Python

Problem solving

Communication

Enterprise integration

AI systems engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD

Job description

Scale AI is seeking a Frontier Agent Engineer (Forward Deployed Engineering) to work directly with strategic enterprise customers to architect, integrate, deploy, and operate production AI systems. You'll combine software engineering, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and frontier AI technologies to transform models into reliable enterprise software.

In this role you will design production agent architectures, deploy AI into mission-critical workflows, and help shape engineering best