Remote Staff AI Engineer: Agentic SDLC

GitLab Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

GitLab is seeking a Staff Forward Deployed Engineer focused on AI and Agentic SDLC to help define and build GitLab Duo Agent Platform at the frontier of agentic software development. You will design agent workflows, context systems, and integrations, and work directly with customers to understand where AI systems succeed or create friction.

Join a remote-first team that collaborates across Product and Engineering, delivers production-quality solutions, and drives scalable, secure AI-enabled

Qualifications

• Experience building AI systems for software development.
• Ability to learn across polyglot codebases.
• Strong customer communication and architectural leadership.

Responsibilities

• Design and build agentic systems using models, tools, action loops, orchestration, context, retrieval, state, memory, evaluation, tracing, and human oversight.
• Develop context and knowledge systems using retrieval-augmented generation, cache-augmented generation, graph-based retrieval, repository understanding, and context optimization.
• Work directly in strategic customer environments to understand technical friction and turn ambiguous needs into working solutions.
• Build agent workflows, integrations, evaluation suites, reference architectures, and product capabilities that improve customer outcomes.
• Contribute production-quality changes across GitLab Duo Agent Platform and the broader GitLab product.
• Evaluate and improve system quality, reliability, latency, cost, token use, safety, authorization, governance, and developer experience.
• Diagnose failures across models, context, retrieval, tool use, control flow, product behavior, permissions, and surrounding software-development workflows.
• Partner with Product and Engineering as an extension of their teams, accelerating work while aligning with product direction and engineering standards.
• Generalize customer-specific learning into reusable platform capabilities, implementation patterns, and technical guidance.
• Provide Staff-level technical leadership through architecture, implementation, review, mentorship, and influence across teams.

Skills

Staff-level engineering

AI systems design

Agentic systems

Python programming

TypeScript

Customer communication

Technical leadership

Tools

LangChain

RAG systems

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

GitLab is seeking a Staff Forward Deployed Engineer focused on AI and Agentic SDLC to help define and build GitLab Duo Agent Platform at the frontier of agentic software development. You will design agent workflows, context systems, and integrations, and work directly with customers to understand where AI systems succeed or create friction.

Join a remote-first team that collaborates across Product and Engineering, delivers production-quality solutions, and drives scalable, secure AI-enabled