Senior Frontier AI Agent Engineer — Equity & Production

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

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, and traditional ML.

You may build multi-agent research systems and contribute to customer intelligence platforms, healthcare copilots, or autonomous workflows for Fortune 100 companies.

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 that leverage the latest advances in large language models, reasoning, retrieval, memory, and tool use.
• Architect intelligent systems that combine LLMs, traditional ML, structured knowledge, enterprise data, and deterministic software into reliable production workflows.
• Engineer customer intelligence layers, retrieval pipelines, memory systems, and knowledge representations for 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 models, prompting techniques, reasoning paradigms, and agent architectures.
• Own the full experimentation lifecycle, from hypothesis generation to production rollout.
• Design rigorous evaluation frameworks using offline benchmarks, online experiments, and human evaluation.
• Run controlled experiments and ablation studies to understand model contributions.

Skills

Python

LLM experience

Enterprise customer work

ML fundamentals

Evaluation metrics

Communication

Tools

OpenAI tooling

Vector databases

Retrieval systems

Agent frameworks

Kubernetes

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, and traditional ML.

You may build multi-agent research systems and contribute to customer intelligence platforms, healthcare copilots, or autonomous workflows for Fortune 100 companies.