Senior Frontier AI Agent Engineer (Applied AI)

Scale AI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 265,000 - 331,000; Full time

Job summary

Scale AI is seeking a Staff Frontier Agent Engineer (Applied AI) to bridge cutting-edge AI research with enterprise deployments in multiple industries. You will design, evaluate, and deploy intelligent systems that combine frontier models with structured knowledge and traditional ML, working closely with enterprise customers to translate problems into scalable production solutions.

You will build and evaluate multi-agent systems, retrieval pipelines, and memory representations while embracing

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 that leverage the latest advances in LLMs, reasoning, retrieval, memory, and tool use.
• Architect intelligent systems that combine LLMs, traditional ML, structured knowledge, and enterprise data into reliable production workflows.
• Engineer customer intelligence layers, retrieval pipelines, memory systems, and knowledge representations that allow agents to reason over large enterprise data.
• Develop multi-agent systems that coordinate reasoning, planning, tool execution, and human oversight.
• Translate frontier AI research into production systems by evaluating new models, prompts, reasoning paradigms, and architectures.
• Own the full experimentation lifecycle from hypothesis to production rollout.

Skills

Python programming

Production AI systems

LLMs

Enterprise customer communication

Tools

AWS/Azure/GCP

Docker

Kubernetes

Vector databases

Retrieval systems

Job description

Scale AI is seeking a Staff Frontier Agent Engineer (Applied AI) to bridge cutting-edge AI research with enterprise deployments in multiple industries. You will design, evaluate, and deploy intelligent systems that combine frontier models with structured knowledge and traditional ML, working closely with enterprise customers to translate problems into scalable production solutions.

You will build and evaluate multi-agent systems, retrieval pipelines, and memory representations while embracing