Remote Staff Engineer, AI Agent Context & Memory

GitHub, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 372,000; Full time

Job summary

GitHub, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to help ideate, develop, and build the context layer for its agent platform. You will focus on agent memory, search, GitHub graph, and delivering the right context to agents efficiently and at the right time.

The role sits in the Copilot Agents organization, collaborating with product, engineering, design, research, and data science teams to impact millions of developers and AI agents across diverse workflows.

Qualifications

• 9+ years experience in Software Engineering with production coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python.
• Alternate path: Associate's Degree + 8+ years experience with production software coding in same languages.
• Alternate path: Bachelor's degree + 7+ years experience; Master's degree + 5+ years; Doctorate + 3+ years; or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for systems that help AI agents acquire, interpret, retain, and apply relevant software-development context.
• Design, prototype, implement, test, ship, and operate high-quality technical solutions that scale across GitHub services and Copilot experiences.
• Develop platform capabilities and APIs for context retrieval, sessions, memory, agent customization, evaluation, and feedback-driven improvement.
• Turn ambiguous customer and product opportunities into clear technical strategies, architecture proposals, experiments, and executable roadmaps.
• Work at the frontier of how software gets built with agents and evolve workflows that make the whole team faster.
• Partner with product managers, designers, researchers, data scientists, and engineers across GitHub to connect capabilities into coherent end-to-end experiences.

Skills

Software engineering

C/C++/Java/Python

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Master's degree in CS or related field

Doctorate in CS or related field

Associate's degree + 8+ years experience

Job description

GitHub, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to help ideate, develop, and build the context layer for its agent platform. You will focus on agent memory, search, GitHub graph, and delivering the right context to agents efficiently and at the right time.

The role sits in the Copilot Agents organization, collaborating with product, engineering, design, research, and data science teams to impact millions of developers and AI agents across diverse workflows.