Senior AI Systems Engineer: Backend & Orchestration

Remote; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 215,000 - 250,000; Full time

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Job summary

Federato is seeking an Software Engineer, AI Systems to help build the backend architecture behind our agent systems. This role sits at the intersection of software engineering, data infrastructure, and applied AI.

You’ll design and implement systems that power LLM-driven product capabilities—from orchestration to production deployment. You’ll collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams to translate underwriting workflows into AI-enabled features and ship high-impact capabilities in

Qualifications

• 10+ years of backend engineering, data engineering or related roles.
• Strong experience building production backend systems and APIs.
• Professional experience with LLMs, agent systems, or generative AI applications.
• Hands-on experience with prompt design, tool-based agent architectures, or LLM workflows.
• Proficiency in Python or similar backend languages.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and distributed systems.
• Comfort working across layers of the stack from infra to product integration.
• Strong curiosity about emerging AI architectures and agent patterns.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement agent workflows and orchestration systems for AI-powered product features.
• Build backend services that integrate LLMs with structured insurance data and platform APIs.
• Develop infrastructure for tooling, context management, and agent execution.
• Contribute to internal frameworks supporting prompt iteration, evaluation, and observability.
• Partner with product and design to translate underwriting workflows into AI-enabled product experiences.
• Help define architectural patterns for building reliable AI-native features in production.
• Work across backend systems, data infrastructure, and product integrations to ship user-facing capabilities.

Skills

Backend engineering

LLMs experience

Prompt design

Python

Cloud infrastructure

Distributed systems

API development

Production-grade systems

Agent systems

Observability

Job description

Federato is seeking an Software Engineer, AI Systems to help build the backend architecture behind our agent systems. This role sits at the intersection of software engineering, data infrastructure, and applied AI.

You’ll design and implement systems that power LLM-driven product capabilities—from orchestration to production deployment. You’ll collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams to translate underwriting workflows into AI-enabled features and ship high-impact capabilities in