Senior Agentic Engineer (Remote) — AI Execution Lead

Ladders; United States; Remote; USD 135,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

4 weeks vacation

12 company holidays

401k match up to 6%

Vacation bonus $2,000

EAP through Headspace

Job summary

Ladders is seeking a Staff Engineer specializing in agentic software to guide technical direction for a product area focused on agentic execution. The role requires coordinating across teams to define standards, workflows, and safe verification at scale.

The position blends engineering judgment with cross-functional influence, shaping architecture, review practices, and security controls for reliable outcomes across repositories and tasks. Remote—US based candidates only.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software engineering with customer-facing software and technical direction ownership.
• Proven track record of establishing reusable agent patterns and AI solutions across teams.
• Expertise in system design, data models, and architecture with attention to performance trade-offs.
• Ability to define and enforce specification standards and review processes across teams.
• Experience in context engineering for reliable agent execution across repositories and tasks.
• Demonstrated skill in designing agent workflows for parallel execution with human checkpoints.
• Strong communication skills for synthesizing technical strategies for diverse audiences.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical direction of a product area, guiding multiple teams in specifying, delegating, and verifying agentic work.
• Define quality standards for specifications and establish review gates to enforce them.
• Create frameworks for determining when to use agentic execution versus direct implementation.
• Coordinate large-scale efforts across teams to achieve outcomes beyond individual capabilities.
• Set verification practices to ensure the safety of agent-produced work at scale.
• Establish security architecture for agentic work, including data-flow boundaries and access controls.
• Mentor engineers on best practices for specifying, delegating, and verifying agentic work.

Skills

8+ years engineering

Agentic patterns

System design

Cross-team leadership

Specification standards

Communication skills

Context engineering

Job description

Ladders is seeking a Staff Engineer specializing in agentic software to guide technical direction for a product area focused on agentic execution. The role requires coordinating across teams to define standards, workflows, and safe verification at scale.

The position blends engineering judgment with cross-functional influence, shaping architecture, review practices, and security controls for reliable outcomes across repositories and tasks. Remote—US based candidates only.