Senior Frontier AI Agent Engineer - Applied AI

Scale AI, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 216,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

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

This role emphasizes building production AI systems, memory and retrieval layers, agent architectures, and rigorous evaluation pipelines; you will ship

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 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 latest LLM advances.
• Architect intelligent systems combining LLMs, ML, knowledge, and enterprise data.
• Engineer customer intelligence layers, retrieval pipelines, memory systems, and knowledge representations.
• Develop multi-agent systems coordinating reasoning, planning, tool use, and human oversight.
• Translate frontier AI research into production systems and evaluate new models and techniques.
• Own full experimentation lifecycle from hypothesis to production rollout.
• Design evaluation frameworks using offline benchmarks, online experiments, datasets, and human evaluation.
• Measure business impact through online experimentation and real-world feedback.

Skills

5+ years experience

Python

LLMs

AI tooling

ML fundamentals

Quantitative metrics

Enterprise communication

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Observability

AWS

Azure

GCP

OpenAI

Claude

MCP

Vector databases

Retrieval systems

Job description

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

This role emphasizes building production AI systems, memory and retrieval layers, agent architectures, and rigorous evaluation pipelines; you will ship