Senior Frontier AI Architect for Production Agents

Scale AI, Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 216,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental and vision coverage

Retirement benefits

Learning and development stipend

Generous PTO

Commuter stipend

Job summary

Scale AI in New York 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 enterprise software.

You will work across multiple industries on diverse AI challenges, build multi-agent systems, and ship production AI solutions with measurable business impact.

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 leveraging LLMs, reasoning, retrieval, memory, and tool use.
• Architect intelligent systems that combine LLMs, traditional ML, structured knowledge, enterprise data, and software.
• Engineer customer intelligence layers and knowledge representations for large enterprise data.
• Develop multi-agent systems coordinating reasoning, planning, tool execution, and oversight.
• Translate frontier AI research into production systems by evaluating models, prompts, and architectures.
• Own the full experimentation lifecycle from hypothesis to production rollout.
• Build production‑quality AI systems with reliability, observability, latency, safety, and cost.

Skills

Python

LLMs

Production AI

Agent frameworks

Vector databases

ML fundamentals

Enterprise communication

Docker

Kubernetes

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

Scale AI in New York 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 enterprise software.

You will work across multiple industries on diverse AI challenges, build multi-agent systems, and ship production AI solutions with measurable business impact.