Senior Systems Engineer, AI Platform & Agent Runtime

Tasklet; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Tasklet, headquartered in San Francisco, is building an AI platform where agents perform tasks across tools and systems. We seek strong systems engineers to own core infrastructure spanning agent harness, context management, databases, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure.

This hands-on IC role emphasizes deep CS fundamentals, first-principles reasoning, and the ability to debug across runtimes, storage, networking, and production systems.

Qualifications

• Strong CS fundamentals and problem-solving ability.
• Experience building and operating production systems.
• Willingness to work across stacks and roles.

Responsibilities

• Build the agent harness, including orchestration, tool execution, state, evaluation, and failure recovery.
• Develop context-management, filesystem, memory, storage, and sandboxed-execution systems.
• Work on model routing and serving, databases, Kubernetes, networking, queues, and cloud infrastructure.
• Make long-running agent workloads faster, safer, more reliable, and more cost-efficient.
• Turn fast-moving advances in models and agent systems into robust production capabilities.
• Work across the stack and across role boundaries whenever that is the best way to solve the problem.

Skills

Systems engineering

Distributed systems

First principles reasoning

CS fundamentals

Production systems

Tools

Kubernetes

Databases

Cloud infrastructure

Job description

Tasklet, headquartered in San Francisco, is building an AI platform where agents perform tasks across tools and systems. We seek strong systems engineers to own core infrastructure spanning agent harness, context management, databases, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure.

This hands-on IC role emphasizes deep CS fundamentals, first-principles reasoning, and the ability to debug across runtimes, storage, networking, and production systems.