Senior AI Agent Engineer - Production & Reliability

ChipAgents; San Jose (CA); Vor Ort; USD 250.000 - 350.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Unlimited PTO

Full benefits (medical, vision, dental

Free parking

Private gym

Free lunch, drinks and snacks

Zusammenfassung

ChipAgents in San Jose, CA seeks a Software Engineer to scale AI agents for hardware applications, shaping production-grade capabilities and rigorous evaluations.

You will collaborate with researchers, hardware experts and customers to ship reliable, high-performance software that performs at scale in demanding environments.

This role offers ownership, mentoring opportunities, and a chance to influence architecture across product, research, and customer teams.

Qualifikationen

• 5+ years of software engineering experience shipping and operating complex, large-scale production services.
• Strong backend engineering ownership of architecture, scalability, reliability, performance, and cost.
• Hands-on experience building production agent harnesses including tool execution, context management, orchestration, durable state, and failure recovery.
• Ability to diagnose agent failures and turn experimental capabilities into reliable, customer-ready services.
• Strong programming skills in Python and/or TypeScript, with high standards for code quality, testing, and maintainability.
• Clear communication and strong ownership across engineering, research, product, and customer-facing teams.
• Ability to set architectural direction, lead cross-team initiatives, and mentor engineers while remaining hands-on.

Aufgaben

• Identify failure modes in AI agents and design and run evaluations to measure and improve their performance, reliability, and efficiency.
• Develop new agent capabilities and turn successful experiments into production software.
• Design effective evaluations based on interactions with customers and domain specialists.
• Analyze traces and experimental results to identify bottlenecks.
• Develop tool interfaces, context-management systems, memory, and multi-step or multi-agent orchestration.
• Form clear hypotheses, test ideas quickly, and distinguish meaningful improvements from benchmark noise.
• Move between experimental work and pragmatic product engineering as needed.
• Write well-architected, maintainable production code.

Kenntnisse

Backend engineering

Python

TypeScript

System architecture

Mentoring

Cross-team collaboration

Production services

Tools

Agent harnesses

Context management

Orchestration

Failure recovery

Jobbeschreibung

ChipAgents in San Jose, CA seeks a Software Engineer to scale AI agents for hardware applications, shaping production-grade capabilities and rigorous evaluations.

You will collaborate with researchers, hardware experts and customers to ship reliable, high-performance software that performs at scale in demanding environments.

This role offers ownership, mentoring opportunities, and a chance to influence architecture across product, research, and customer teams.