Senior Frontier AI Agent Engineer

Fdetimes; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 216,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

Learning & development stipend

Generous PTO

Commuter stipend

Job summary

Scale AI is seeking a Senior Frontier Agent Engineer (Applied AI) to bridge cutting-edge research and production deployment for enterprise customers. You will design, evaluate, and deploy intelligent systems that combine frontier models with structured knowledge, retrieval, memory, and traditional ML.

In this role, you will work across diverse AI challenges, building multi-agent systems, evaluating new models, and shaping customer-facing AI platforms in collaboration with enterprise teams for

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering, machine learning, 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 machine learning fundamentals and modern language models.
• Experience designing or evaluating AI systems using quantitative metrics.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work directly with enterprise customers.

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy production AI agents using LLMs and retrieval.
• Architect intelligent systems combining LLMs, knowledge bases, and deterministic software.
• Collaborate with enterprise customers to translate problems into AI architectures.
• Run experiments and evaluations to measure business impact.
• Ensure reliability, observability, and security in production deployments.

Skills

Python

Production AI

LLMs & tooling

Communication

Cloud & distributed systems

Tools

OpenAI

Claude

MCP

Agent frameworks

Vector databases

Retrieval systems

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

Scale AI is seeking a Senior Frontier Agent Engineer (Applied AI) to bridge cutting-edge research and production deployment for enterprise customers. You will design, evaluate, and deploy intelligent systems that combine frontier models with structured knowledge, retrieval, memory, and traditional ML.

In this role, you will work across diverse AI challenges, building multi-agent systems, evaluating new models, and shaping customer-facing AI platforms in collaboration with enterprise teams for