Lead AI Engineer - Autonomous Agents Platform

Silver.dev; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Silver.dev is seeking a hands-on AI Engineer to own the architecture and development of our autonomous agent system. You will lead technical direction, build multi-agent orchestration, self-improving harnesses, and AI-powered backend services, shipping production code and setting engineering standards as we scale.

This highly technical leadership role requires 4+ years in software engineering, prior startup leadership, and deep experience with LLM-based systems, prompt engineering, and

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Hands-on leadership at an early-stage company.
• Experience shipping multi-agent orchestration systems to production.
• Experience with LLM-based systems and prompt engineering.
• Backend API and data flow design experience.
• Experience with AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Cursor, OpenAI Codex.

Responsibilities

• Own system architecture and key technical decisions across the platform.
• Design and build multi-agent systems and orchestration infrastructure from idea to launch.
• Develop self-improving agent harnesses, including feedback loops, evaluation systems, and memory.
• Build and maintain AI-powered backend services on top of LLM APIs like Anthropic, OpenAI, and Gemini.
• Write production code around agent runtime and orchestration.
• Debug and improve AI behavior in production via prompt engineering, structured outputs, retries, and fallbacks.
• Break down complex technical challenges into milestones and prioritize the engineering roadmap.
• Establish engineering standards around code reviews, testing, observability, and release processes.
• Lead and support the engineering team while remaining deeply involved in implementation.

Skills

4+ years software engineering

Technical leadership

Multi-agent systems

Self-improving agents

Backend engineering

LLM experience

AI agents tooling

Tools

TypeScript

Node.js

Vercel AI SDK

Claude Agent SDK

PostgreSQL

Supabase

pgvector

Inngest

Pub/Sub

Zod

Vitest

GCP Cloud Run

Job description

Silver.dev is seeking a hands-on AI Engineer to own the architecture and development of our autonomous agent system. You will lead technical direction, build multi-agent orchestration, self-improving harnesses, and AI-powered backend services, shipping production code and setting engineering standards as we scale.

This highly technical leadership role requires 4+ years in software engineering, prior startup leadership, and deep experience with LLM-based systems, prompt engineering, and