Senior Production AI Agent Engineer

People in AI; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

People In AI is a high-growth applied AI company building production agents to automate enterprise workflows. The team connects fragmented data and enables agents to execute high-value processes at scale, with a lean engineering culture and strong commercial traction.

As a backend-focused engineer, you will build and deploy AI agents, own customer problems from discovery to production, and design robust data-aware systems while improving reliability with leadership and customers.

Qualifications

• Experience building and owning AI agents in production.
• Strong backend and software engineering fundamentals.
• Experience with production LLM systems and their failure modes.
• Ability to work across AI, backend, data, and product.
• Strong ownership and comfort operating in ambiguous environments.
• Startup experience strongly preferred.
• LLMs and agentic systems
• Backend and distributed systems
• Context and ontology systems

Responsibilities

• Build and deploy production AI agents.
• Own customer problems from discovery through production.
• Design systems around complex, fragmented enterprise data.
• Improve agent reliability, performance, and failure handling.
• Build reusable agent and platform infrastructure.
• Work directly with customers and technical leadership.

Skills

AI agents

Backend engineering

Production LLMs

Customer interaction

Ownership

Job description

People In AI is a high-growth applied AI company building production agents to automate enterprise workflows. The team connects fragmented data and enables agents to execute high-value processes at scale, with a lean engineering culture and strong commercial traction.

As a backend-focused engineer, you will build and deploy AI agents, own customer problems from discovery to production, and design robust data-aware systems while improving reliability with leadership and customers.