Senior Software Engineer: AI Agents for Hardware Telemetry

Sift Stack, Inc.; California (MO); On-site; USD 170,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Sift is seeking a product engineering leader to own Sift Agents, AI-backed assistants for hardware teams. You’ll translate customer workflows into agent capabilities, from MVP to full-scale delivery.

You’ll work across the stack—from frontend interactions to API design and scalable backend code—while collaborating with customers and product to drive the roadmap. Location is Marina Del Rey, CA; relocation to LA is possible. Salary range is $170,000–$220,000 per year, plus equity and benefits.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Own a product area: talk to customers, decide what to build, and ship it.
• Frontend web applications with technologies like React, NextJS, or similar.
• APIs (REST, gRPC, etc.) or backend services with technologies like Go, Python, Rust, or similar.
• Curious about new AI products: you try new agents, models, and features as they ship, and have opinions about what makes them good

Responsibilities

• Talk directly to customers and partner with product to turn real review workflows into agent capabilities: generating dashboards, writing analysis scripts, and surfacing insights buried in their telemetry
• Design, ship, and operate agentic systems that reason over large-scale time-series data and hardware domain context
• Build everything around the model that makes agents dependable: tool interfaces, sandboxed execution for agent-generated code, context and memory management, custom compaction algorithms, opinionated skills, and guardrails
• Develop and maintain Sift’s MCP server, the tool surface that lets both our agents and our customers’ AI tools query telemetry directly
• Work across the whole stack: build frontend surfaces, design and implement APIs, run agents reliably at scale (cloud and on-prem)
• Build evaluation suites that measure whether agents actually help engineers, and instrument quality, latency, cost, and failure modes in production
• Integrate and assess frontier models across providers

Skills

8+ years experience

Product ownership

Frontend React/NextJS

APIs REST/gRPC

AI product curiosity

Tools

React

NextJS

Go

Python

Rust

REST

gRPC

Kubernetes

TypeScript

Job description

Sift is seeking a product engineering leader to own Sift Agents, AI-backed assistants for hardware teams. You’ll translate customer workflows into agent capabilities, from MVP to full-scale delivery.

You’ll work across the stack—from frontend interactions to API design and scalable backend code—while collaborating with customers and product to drive the roadmap. Location is Marina Del Rey, CA; relocation to LA is possible. Salary range is $170,000–$220,000 per year, plus equity and benefits.