Senior AI Agent Engineer - Production-Ready Systems

Fdetimes; New York (NY); On-site; USD 290,000 - 363,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Dental and vision

Retirement benefits

Learning stipend

Generous PTO

Commuter stipend

Equity compensation

Job summary

Scale AI is seeking a Senior/Staff Machine Learning Engineer on the General Agents team in New York. You will design, build, and deploy production-ready AI agents that address enterprise problems across the full lifecycle from model design to evaluation and deployment.

You'll master frontier agent techniques, collaborate with product managers and customers, and own deployments, monitoring, and iteration, with leadership opportunities at Staff level.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building and deploying ML/AI systems in production.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end agent systems combining LLM reasoning, tool use, memory, and control logic to solve enterprise use cases.
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Skills

5+ years of ML/AI production systems

CS/ML degree

LLM & agentic design

Python production code

Systems integration of models with API

Ambiguity tolerance

Strong communication

Education

Bachelor’s in CS/ML or related

Master’s in CS/ML or related

Tools

OpenAI APIs

LLM frameworks

Python

Job description

Scale AI is seeking a Senior/Staff Machine Learning Engineer on the General Agents team in New York. You will design, build, and deploy production-ready AI agents that address enterprise problems across the full lifecycle from model design to evaluation and deployment.

You'll master frontier agent techniques, collaborate with product managers and customers, and own deployments, monitoring, and iteration, with leadership opportunities at Staff level.