Senior AI Workflow Engineer (On-Site San Francisco)

AHU Technologies; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

AHU Technologies in San Francisco, CA is seeking an experienced Agent Engineer to build and scale the agent and workflow layer behind a cloud-based creative platform. The role requires hands-on experience shipping production AI or backend systems and designing reliable model orchestration.

You will develop intelligent workflow systems that integrate AI models, tools, and services across image, video, audio, text, and other creative workflows, ensuring scalable, reliable operations.

Qualifications

• 3+ years shipping AI, agent-based, backend, or production software systems.
• Strong Python and/or TypeScript skills.
• Experience with backend development, databases, queues, and production reliability practices.
• Hands-on experience with agent architectures (planning, tool use, memory, retrieval, context management, workflow execution).
• Experience orchestrating multiple AI models and providers (routing, retries, fallbacks, latency, cost management).
• Experience with evaluation frameworks and A/B testing environments.
• Ability to work on-site in San Francisco.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain agent runtimes supporting planning, tool usage, memory, retrieval, context management, and workflow execution.
• Orchestrate multiple AI models and providers across generation workflows.
• Design routing, retry mechanisms, fallbacks, latency optimization, cost controls, and failure recovery systems.
• Develop workflow memory systems preserving project context, assets, templates, style preferences, and previous outputs.
• Implement evaluation frameworks, regression testing, benchmarking, human review workflows, and quality metrics.
• Improve production reliability through queue management, monitoring, cancellation handling, progress tracking, and graceful recovery mechanisms.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable and user-friendly AI workflow solutions.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

Backend development

Observability

Production reliability

Agent architectures

AI workflow orchestration

Tools

Databases

Queue systems

Observability tooling

Job description

AHU Technologies in San Francisco, CA is seeking an experienced Agent Engineer to build and scale the agent and workflow layer behind a cloud-based creative platform. The role requires hands-on experience shipping production AI or backend systems and designing reliable model orchestration.

You will develop intelligent workflow systems that integrate AI models, tools, and services across image, video, audio, text, and other creative workflows, ensuring scalable, reliable operations.