Senior AI Agent Harness Engineer (Hybrid: Local + Cloud)

Intel; Folsom (CA); Hybrid; USD 195,200 - 361,200; Full time

Job summary

Intel is hiring for a core product engineering role focused on building an agent harness that operates in a hybrid (local + cloud) environment with efficient context management and tool integration. You will design the agent loop, enable tool calls, and ensure security and observability.

The role requires strong programming skills (Python, TS, Go, Rust, C++) and experience with async/concurrency, plus the ability to read unfamiliar codebases and runtime environments.

Qualifications

• BS/MS in CS, EE, Math or related STEM field.
• 8+ years software development background.
• Strong command of Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, C++.
• Expertise with async, concurrency, and process / subprocess management.
• Experience with projects that calls external tools or APIs in a loop and handled the failure modes.
• Experienced at reading unfamiliar codebases and someone else’s runtime.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the agent loop: planning, tool invocation, observation handling, retries, termination.
• Implement tool integrations — file I/O, terminal / shell execution, web, MCP servers, message apps.
• Build context management: what goes in the window, when to summarize, how to use long / cross-session memory.
• Implement scheduling and automatic / background task execution.
• Keep the harness model-agnostic so local and cloud models are swappable behind one abstraction.
• Design agent security mechanisms through different approaches.
• Make the loop observable, debuggable: tracing, replay, and reproducible agent sessions.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

Go

Rust

C++

Async / Concurrency

Code reading

Education

BS/MS in CS, EE, Math or related STEM field

Job description

Intel is hiring for a core product engineering role focused on building an agent harness that operates in a hybrid (local + cloud) environment with efficient context management and tool integration. You will design the agent loop, enable tool calls, and ensure security and observability.

The role requires strong programming skills (Python, TS, Go, Rust, C++) and experience with async/concurrency, plus the ability to read unfamiliar codebases and runtime environments.