Senior Frontier AI Engineer - Applied AI & Production

Scale AI; New York (NY); On-site; USD 252,000 - 315,000; Full time

Job summary

Scale AI is hiring a Staff Frontier Agent Engineer (Applied AI) to bridge cutting-edge AI research and production deployment across multiple industries. You will design, evaluate, and deploy intelligent systems combining frontier models with structured enterprise data and memory, enabling reliable workflows at scale.

You will work with enterprise customers to translate problems into scalable architectures, build multi-agent coordination, and lead experimentation to measure 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 that leverage the latest advances in LLMs, reasoning, retrieval, memory, and tool use.
• Architect intelligent systems that combine LLMs, traditional machine learning, structured knowledge, enterprise data, and deterministic software into reliable production workflows.
• Engineer customer intelligence layers, retrieval pipelines, memory systems, and knowledge representations that allow agents to reason over large, heterogeneous enterprise data.
• Develop multi-agent systems that coordinate reasoning, planning, tool execution, and human oversight.
• Translate frontier AI research into production systems by rapidly evaluating new models, prompting techniques, reasoning paradigms, and agent architectures.
• Own the full experimentation lifecycle, from hypothesis generation to production rollout.

Skills

8+ years experience

Python

Production AI systems

LLMs tooling

Cloud platforms

Enterprise comms

OpenAI/Claude/MCP

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Vector databases

Retrieval systems

Job description

Scale AI is hiring a Staff Frontier Agent Engineer (Applied AI) to bridge cutting-edge AI research and production deployment across multiple industries. You will design, evaluate, and deploy intelligent systems combining frontier models with structured enterprise data and memory, enabling reliable workflows at scale.

You will work with enterprise customers to translate problems into scalable architectures, build multi-agent coordination, and lead experimentation to measure business impact