Staff AI Engineer — Remote Systems & Orchestration

Cobalt; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Cobalt is seeking an engineering leader to set the technical direction for production agent systems, including orchestration, memory management, and failure recovery. You will help build and operate shared foundations such as evaluation frameworks, observability, execution controls, and model access with routing and failover.

You will collaborate with security and platform teams to enforce scoped permissions, data isolation, audit trails, and safe execution of tools and code.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction for production agent systems, including orchestration, memory management, and failure recovery.
• Build and operate shared foundations: evaluation frameworks, observability, execution controls, and model access with routing and failover.
• Work with security and platform teams to ensure scoped permissions, data isolation, audit trails, and safe execution of tools and code.

Job description

Cobalt is seeking an engineering leader to set the technical direction for production agent systems, including orchestration, memory management, and failure recovery. You will help build and operate shared foundations such as evaluation frameworks, observability, execution controls, and model access with routing and failover.

You will collaborate with security and platform teams to enforce scoped permissions, data isolation, audit trails, and safe execution of tools and code.