Senior AI Agent Engineer for CAD/CAE Workflows

Sage Recruiting Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Sage Recruiting's client is building an AI agent for hardware engineering. You will own the core agent layer, enabling long multi-step workflows across locked-down desktop software inside enterprise machines.

This role will execute plain-language requests within tools like SolidWorks, CATIA, NX and Ansys. You'll build tool calling, state management, error recovery, and model routing to keep workflows fast and cheap.

Qualifications

• 3+ years shipping production software.
• Rock-solid CS fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, concurrency and systems design.
• Ability to verify and own AI-written code; not hand-writing code on this team.
• Bias toward shipping measurable results.
• Fluency in any language; Python is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Build tool calling, state management, error recovery, context management and model routing.
• Make it fast and cheap: minimize latency and cost per workflow.
• Build evals from real engineering workflows; define what 'good' means.
• Report directly to the CTO; success measured by task completion and token efficiency.

Skills

Production software

CS fundamentals

Algorithms

Concurrency

Systems design

AI-written code

Python

Tools

COM

Desktop automation

Job description

Sage Recruiting's client is building an AI agent for hardware engineering. You will own the core agent layer, enabling long multi-step workflows across locked-down desktop software inside enterprise machines.

This role will execute plain-language requests within tools like SolidWorks, CATIA, NX and Ansys. You'll build tool calling, state management, error recovery, and model routing to keep workflows fast and cheap.