Frontier AI Agents Engineer (Applied AI) — Production

Front Door Defense; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Scale AI is seeking a Frontier Agents Engineer (Applied AI) to build production AI agents and deploy them to enterprise customers. You’ll bridge cutting‑edge AI research and production systems, integrating frontier models with retrieval, memory, and structured data.

Based in the US with locations in San Francisco, Seattle, or New York, the role offers $180,000–$225,000 USD per year. You will work with enterprise partners to design, evaluate, and deploy intelligent systems across multiple

Qualifications

• 4+ years of software engineering, ML, or applied AI experience.
• Strong Python programming skills.
• Experience building production AI systems with LLMs.
• Experience with AI tooling (OpenAI, Claude, MCP) or retrieval systems.
• Solid understanding of ML fundamentals and modern LLMs.
• Excellent communication and ability to work with enterprise customers.

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy production AI agents that leverage the latest advances in LLMs, retrieval, memory, and tool use.
• Architect intelligent systems that combine LLMs, traditional machine learning, structured knowledge, enterprise data, and deterministic software into reliable production workflows.
• Develop multi‑agent systems that coordinate reasoning, planning, tool execution, and human oversight.
• Own the full experimentation lifecycle, from hypothesis generation to production rollout.
• Collaborate with enterprise customers to translate problems into production AI architectures.
• Ensure safety, observability, and cost considerations in production.

Skills

Python

LLMs

Software engineering

Communication

Enterprise collaboration

Tools

OpenAI tools

Claude

Retrieval systems

Vector databases

Job description

Scale AI is seeking a Frontier Agents Engineer (Applied AI) to build production AI agents and deploy them to enterprise customers. You’ll bridge cutting‑edge AI research and production systems, integrating frontier models with retrieval, memory, and structured data.

Based in the US with locations in San Francisco, Seattle, or New York, the role offers $180,000–$225,000 USD per year. You will work with enterprise partners to design, evaluate, and deploy intelligent systems across multiple