Staff Engineer · Agentic AI Runtime

Innovent; Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base + equity

Healthcare and retirement plans

4 weeks vacation + sabbatical at year

Hybrid, with Tu e/Thu in-office

Job summary

Innovent is seeking a Staff Engineer to advance the agentic AI runtime on the Innfini platform. You will help shape the planner, policy engine, and decision ledger powering national-scale deployments.

You’ll join a small team focused on production distributed systems, shipping to customers in regulated or mission-critical environments, across edge and cloud runtimes, with hybrid in-office collaboration.

Qualifications

• 7+ years building production distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with agentic frameworks, planners, or LLM-tool-use systems.
• Strong distributed-systems fundamentals.
• Comfort working across edge and cloud runtimes.
• Track record of shipping into regulated or mission-critical environments.

Responsibilities

• Build the planner, policy engine, and decision ledger that runs national-scale deployments.
• Collaborate with a small team focused on the agentic AI runtime surface of the Innfini platform.
• Ship to customers operating national-scale operations, including in war rooms or mission-critical facilities.

Skills

Distributed systems

Agentic frameworks/Planners/LLM-tools

Edge and cloud runtimes

Regulated environments shipping

Production systems

Job description

// Engineering Los Angeles · Hybrid · Full-time

Staff Engineer · Agentic AI Runtime

Build the planner, policy engine, and decision ledger that runs national-scale C&C deployments.

// What you'll own

The role

You’ll join a small team focused on the agentic AI runtime surface of the Innfini platform. The work is product, customer, and consequence — in equal measure. You’ll ship to customers running national-scale operations, sometimes from a war room, sometimes from a chemical plant.

Typed policy enforcement

// What we look for

You

• 01 7+ years building production distributed systems
• 02 Hands-on experience with agentic frameworks, planners, or LLM-tool-use systems
• 03 Strong distributed-systems fundamentals
• 04 Comfort working across edge and cloud runtimes
• 05 Track record of shipping into regulated or mission-critical environments

// What we offer

The deal.

• Competitive base + meaningful equity. Salary bands published internally. Equity that vests over four years with a one-year cliff.
• Healthcare and retirement that don't make you read the fine print. Comprehensive medical, dental, vision. 401(k) match (US) and equivalent country plans elsewhere.
• 4 weeks vacation. Sabbatical at year five. We're a 10-year company on a 30-year problem.
• Hybrid, with intent. Tuesday + Thursday in-office at your hub. Heads-down days are protected. Async-by-default for documents, sync for decisions.