Frontier AI Engineer — Production Agent Architect

Scale AI, Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health coverage

Dental and vision coverage

Retirement benefits

Learning and development stipend

Generous PTO

Commuter stipend

Job summary

Scale AI, Inc. is seeking a Frontier Agent Engineer to bridge frontier AI research and production deployment for enterprise customers.

You will design, evaluate, and deploy intelligent systems that combine frontier models with structured knowledge, retrieval, and traditional ML to solve real business problems. You will work across a diverse portfolio of AI challenges, building multi-agent research systems and contributing to customer-facing intelligence platforms.

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 modern AI tooling including 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

• Design and deploy production AI agents that leverage the latest advances in LLMs, reasoning, retrieval, memory, and tool use.
• Architect intelligent systems that combine LLMs, traditional ML, structured knowledge, enterprise data, and deterministic software into reliable production workflows.
• Engineer customer intelligence layers, retrieval pipelines, memory systems, and knowledge representations for large enterprise data.
• Develop multi-agent systems that coordinate reasoning, planning, tool execution, and human oversight.
• Translate frontier AI research into production systems by evaluating new models, prompting techniques, and agent architectures.

Skills

Python

LLMs

Production AI

Enterprise communication

Quantitative metrics

Research-to-production

Tools

OpenAI

Claude

MCP

agent frameworks

vector databases

retrieval

Job description

Scale AI, Inc. is seeking a Frontier Agent Engineer to bridge frontier AI research and production deployment for enterprise customers.

You will design, evaluate, and deploy intelligent systems that combine frontier models with structured knowledge, retrieval, and traditional ML to solve real business problems. You will work across a diverse portfolio of AI challenges, building multi-agent research systems and contributing to customer-facing intelligence platforms.