Remote Forge AI Engineer — Build Agentic Platform

Norstella; Columbus (OH); Remote; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Norstella is building Forge, a greenfield agentic platform that replaces the human-driven SDLC with an autonomous agent chain, end-to-end. You'd work across the full stack: orchestration, multi-agent coordination, MCP server design, RAG pipelines, eval harnesses, and safety primitives that make non-deterministic systems trustworthy in production.

The platform is live and shipping, with hard problems like memory across multi-step runs and recovery.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience
• Production experience with at least one agentic framework
• Hands-on experience authoring MCP servers or tool-use APIs
• Experience with agent memory architectures
• Strong Python and/or TypeScript fundamentals
• Proficient in prompt engineering and multi-step orchestration
• Familiarity with RAG patterns and LLM evaluation
• Experience in AI safety engineering

Responsibilities

• Design and build agents across the Forge chain — orchestration, tool-use surfaces, MCP server integrations, prompt and RAG pipelines — and set the agentic design patterns the team ships against
• Own multi-agent coordination architecture: inter-agent trust boundaries, message schema contracts, partial failure handling, and recovery across the agent graph
• Build and evolve the MCP server layer — tool schema design, capability contracts, versioning — so Forge's tool-use surface is well-defined and safe to extend
• Design agent memory and state management: context window strategy, long-term memory integration, state persistence across complex multi-step workflows
• Own agent quality end-to-end: eval harnesses, behavioral benchmarks, continuous evaluation pipelines, and the acceptance criteria that gate every agent release
• Instrument agent-specific observability — token tracing, tool-call chain logging, cost attribution per run — so the platform is debuggable and defensible
• Build safe-by-design primitives: least-privilege tool-use, PII/PHI handling, structured output validation, red-team partnership with Security

Skills

Python

TypeScript

Prompt engineering

Agent memory architectures

Multi-agent orchestration

LLM-powered systems

MCP server design

RAG pipelines

Tool-use coordination

Tools

LangGraph

CrewAI

Autogen

Semantic Kernel

MCP

Job description

Norstella is building Forge, a greenfield agentic platform that replaces the human-driven SDLC with an autonomous agent chain, end-to-end. You'd work across the full stack: orchestration, multi-agent coordination, MCP server design, RAG pipelines, eval harnesses, and safety primitives that make non-deterministic systems trustworthy in production.

The platform is live and shipping, with hard problems like memory across multi-step runs and recovery.