Senior AI Engineer for Production Agentic Systems

Engg; Houston, San Francisco (TX, CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Bot Auto is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Applied AI to architect, build, ship, and operate production-grade AI and agentic systems across Bot Auto. This is an engineering-first role for a senior software engineer with proven experience building real AI agentic products or business workflows in production.

You should be comfortable owning the system end to end across backend services, full-stack applications, databases, infrastructure, integrations, and modern AI/LLM engineering, while

Qualifications

• 6+ years of relevant professional software engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated experience building and shipping production systems.
• Strong hands-on experience architecting, building, shipping, and operating production-grade AI agentic applications, products, or business workflows.
• Strong backend and full-stack engineering capability across services, APIs, databases, application state, and user-facing web applications.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture and end-to-end implementation of production agentic products and workflows from problem definition through deployment and operation.
• Design boundaries between deterministic software, workflow engines, databases, source systems, and probabilistic agent reasoning.
• Build and review backend services, APIs, full-stack applications, and operator/user-facing tools supporting agentic workflows.
• Design agent orchestration, tool contracts, workflow state, memory, context, retrieval, approvals, escalation, retries, idempotency, rollback, and failure recovery.
• Design production data architecture, including relational schemas, state persistence, caching/search, event systems, and consistency behavior.
• Integrate AI systems with enterprise tools, internal APIs, data platforms, and operational systems while preserving permissions, auditability, and source-of-authority boundaries.
• Partner with infrastructure teams on cloud architecture, containers, CI/CD, queues, observability, tracing, security, scaling, latency, and cost.
• Establish reusable engineering patterns and reference implementations; work directly with users to convert high-value workflows into reliable products.

Skills

Production AI

Backend & Full-stack

Python

TypeScript/JavaScript

Go

Distributed systems

Cloud / CI/CD

LLM / Agent systems

Production issue handling

Tools

MCP

LangGraph

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Temporal

Job description

Bot Auto is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Applied AI to architect, build, ship, and operate production-grade AI and agentic systems across Bot Auto. This is an engineering-first role for a senior software engineer with proven experience building real AI agentic products or business workflows in production.

You should be comfortable owning the system end to end across backend services, full-stack applications, databases, infrastructure, integrations, and modern AI/LLM engineering, while