Senior Frontier AI Agent Engineer (Applied AI)

United States Digital Space LLC; New York, San Francisco (NY, CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Scale AI in New York is seeking a Staff Frontier Agent Engineer (Applied AI) to bridge cutting-edge research and production deployment, designing intelligent systems that blend frontier models with structured knowledge, retrieval, and enterprise software.

You will work directly with enterprise customers to evaluate, design, and deploy multi‑agent AI platforms, translate complex problems into scalable production workflows, and ship systems that deliver measurable business impact.

Qualifications

• 8+ 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 with LLMs, retrieval, memory, and tools.
• Architect intelligent systems that combine LLMs, traditional ML, structured knowledge, enterprise data, and deterministic software.
• Engineer customer intelligence layers, retrieval pipelines, memory systems, and knowledge representations for enterprise data.
• Develop multi-agent systems coordinating reasoning, planning, tool execution, and human oversight.
• Translate frontier AI research into production systems by evaluating models, prompting techniques, and architectures.
• Own the full experimentation lifecycle from hypothesis generation to production rollout.

Skills

Python programming

Production AI

Communication skills

Tools

OpenAI

Claude

MCP

Agent frameworks

Vector databases

Retrieval systems

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Production observability

Job description

Scale AI in New York is seeking a Staff Frontier Agent Engineer (Applied AI) to bridge cutting-edge research and production deployment, designing intelligent systems that blend frontier models with structured knowledge, retrieval, and enterprise software.

You will work directly with enterprise customers to evaluate, design, and deploy multi‑agent AI platforms, translate complex problems into scalable production workflows, and ship systems that deliver measurable business impact.