Senior Frontier AI Agent Engineer

Scale AI; New York (NY); On-site; USD 216,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental and vision coverage

Retirement benefits

Learning & development stipend

Generous PTO

Commuter stipend

Job summary

Scale AI in New York is seeking a Senior Frontier Agent Engineer (Applied AI) to bridge cutting‑edge research and production deployment for enterprise customers. You will design and evaluate intelligent systems that combine frontier models with structured knowledge, retrieval, and traditional ML, build production workflows, and ship multi‑agent solutions that deliver measurable business impact at scale.

You will collaborate with customers to translate business problems into technical

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering, ML or applied AI experience.
• Strong Python programming skills.
• Experience building production AI systems using LLMs.
• Experience with modern AI tooling including OpenAI, Claude, MCP, agent frameworks, vector databases or retrieval systems.
• Strong understanding of ML fundamentals and modern language models.
• Experience designing/evaluating AI systems using quantitative metrics.
• Excellent communication with enterprise customers.

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy production AI agents leveraging LLMs, retrieval, memory and tool use.
• Architect intelligent systems combining LLMs, ML, structured knowledge and enterprise data.
• Develop multi‑agent systems coordinating reasoning, planning and human oversight.
• Translate frontier AI research into production systems and evaluate new models and prompts.
• Own the experimentation lifecycle and measure business impact through online experiments.

Skills

Software engineering

Machine learning

Python

Production AI

LLMs

Enterprise customers

Quantitative metrics

Communication

Tools

OpenAI tools

Claude

MCP

Agent frameworks

Vector databases

Retrieval systems

Job description

Scale AI in New York is seeking a Senior Frontier Agent Engineer (Applied AI) to bridge cutting‑edge research and production deployment for enterprise customers. You will design and evaluate intelligent systems that combine frontier models with structured knowledge, retrieval, and traditional ML, build production workflows, and ship multi‑agent solutions that deliver measurable business impact at scale.

You will collaborate with customers to translate business problems into technical