Senior AI Engineer - Agentic AI & LLM Systems

Jobot; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 225,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k with 3% company match

Medical, dental and vision benefits

Annual team offsites

Fitness stipend

High impact, mission driven work

Job summary

Jobot is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to join a startup building AI-powered systems that automate complex workflows. The role offers 4+ years of production software experience, strong Python skills, and hands-on work with agentic AI, LLM workflows, and scalable backend design.

You will help design orchestration layers, tool calling frameworks, and production pipelines while collaborating with a small, high-caliber team.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience building and shipping production software systems.
• At least 2 years of AI engineering experience.
• Strong backend engineering fundamentals with Python.
• Proven experience building AI-native products and agentic systems.

Responsibilities

• Building and scaling agentic AI systems that autonomously execute complex workflows end-to-end.
• Designing AI orchestration layers, agent harnesses, tool calling frameworks, and execution pipelines for production LLM systems.
• Developing and deploying LLM-powered infrastructure including retrieval pipelines and memory/context systems.
• Building scalable backend services, APIs, and distributed event-driven architectures for high-throughput AI workloads.
• Creating production-grade AI systems focused on reliability, latency, observability, and iteration speed.
• Designing integrations with external platforms, APIs, and third-party services to expand agent capabilities.
• Improving AI system quality through evaluation frameworks, prompt iteration, retrieval optimization, and human-in-the-loop workflows.
• Collaborating with product and engineering teams to rapidly prototype and ship new AI-native product experiences.

Skills

Python

Distributed systems

Async processing

APIs

AI engineering

Tools

LangGraph

LangChain

Vector databases

Workflow engines

Model serving

Job description

Jobot is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to join a startup building AI-powered systems that automate complex workflows. The role offers 4+ years of production software experience, strong Python skills, and hands-on work with agentic AI, LLM workflows, and scalable backend design.

You will help design orchestration layers, tool calling frameworks, and production pipelines while collaborating with a small, high-caliber team.