Senior Software Engineer, AI Agent Platform

The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 147,000 - 220,000; Full time

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Job summary

The Allen Institute for AI is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Agent Platform in Seattle. You will work on a platform enabling AI agents across conservation and research domains, building APIs, tooling, and deployment capabilities for production use.

You will join a team focused on delivering scalable, observable agent infrastructure, with emphasis on fast iteration and close collaboration with researchers and product partners.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Web services, distributed systems, data pipelines, and cloud tooling knowledge.
• Experience shipping products to external users and owning them in production.
• Fluency with modern AI tools in your workflow.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve platform APIs across registration, auth, secrets, deployment, runtime, events, discovery, and evaluation. Keep them stable, documented, and pleasant to use.
• Build the observability layer that shows developers what their agents are actually doing: logs, conversation history, execution traces, metrics, and failure reporting.
• Own the developer experience end to end: onboarding, quickstarts, SDKs, CLI tooling, example agents, API documentation, and a local development loop that works.
• Build and operate the services underneath all of it: identity and authorization, runtime orchestration, deployment, event routing, and the agent registry.
• Build agents yourself and run them in production, including prompt and tool design, quality and cost tuning, and keeping them healthy once real users depend on them.

Job description

The Allen Institute for AI is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Agent Platform in Seattle. You will work on a platform enabling AI agents across conservation and research domains, building APIs, tooling, and deployment capabilities for production use.

You will join a team focused on delivering scalable, observable agent infrastructure, with emphasis on fast iteration and close collaboration with researchers and product partners.