Senior AI Agent Engineer

BuildMatix; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

BuildMatix is hiring a Senior AI Agent Engineer to design and build AI employees, orchestrate agent handoffs, and ensure production-grade reliability across our AI-powered workflows. This is a remote role within the United States, with collaboration across product and software teams.

You will design AI-agent architectures, implement memory and context strategies, and establish permission boundaries for safe, scalable AI orchestration.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering background.
• Experience building production LLM/AI applications.
• Proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript.
• API development and integration experience.

Responsibilities

• Design AI-agent architectures.
• Build tool-enabled AI workers.
• Implement agent handoffs and orchestration.
• Develop context and memory strategies.
• Create permission and approval boundaries.
• Integrate AI systems with workflows and external applications.
• Build evaluation and reliability frameworks.
• Implement observability for agent behavior.
• Collaborate with product and software engineers.
• Improve production AI performance and reliability.

Skills

Software engineering

Production AI apps

Python

TypeScript

API development

API integration

Agent patterns

Distributed architecture

Databases

Structured data

Production systems

Job description

AI / Technology# Senior AI Agent EngineerDesign and build AI employees, agent orchestration systems and production-grade intelligent workflows across BuildMatix products and solutions.Remote (US)## About BuildMatixBuildMatix Intelligence is a technology company building AI-powered products, intelligent workforces, automation and custom software for organizations operating in the real world.## What you'll work on* The AI workforce layer underneath every BuildMatix product and solution* Orchestration between specialized agents, and the handoffs between them* The permission and approval boundaries that decide what an agent may do alone* Evaluation and observability, so agent behavior in production is measurable rather than assumed## Responsibilities* Design AI-agent architectures* Build tool-enabled AI workers* Implement agent handoffs and orchestration* Develop context and memory strategies* Create permission and approval boundaries* Integrate AI systems with workflows and external applications* Build evaluation and reliability frameworks* Implement observability for agent behavior* Collaborate with product and software engineers* Improve production AI performance and reliability## Required qualifications* Strong software engineering background* Experience building production LLM/AI applications* Python and/or TypeScript* API development and integration experience* Understanding of agent and tool-calling patterns* Strong knowledge of distributed application architecture* Experience with databases and structured data* Ability to design reliable production systems## Preferred qualifications* Multi-agent systems* RAG and retrieval systems* Workflow engines* Cloud infrastructure* Evaluation frameworks* Security-conscious AI architecture## ApplySend us an email with your resume attached and we'll take it from there.* Your resume, attached* A link to LinkedIn, GitHub or a portfolio, if relevant* A few lines on why this role interests youApply by emailThese roles are remote within the United States. We are not able to hire outside the US at this time.What you send is used to consider you for this role and is handled under our Privacy Policy. Please don't include a Social Security number, date of birth, medical information, demographic information or salary history. Privacy Policy.