Staff Engineer - AI Systems & Simulation Platform

Patronus AI; United States; Remote; USD 160,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary + equity packages

Paid vacation 15 days/year

Parental & sick leave

Health, dental, vision insurance

401(k) plan + matching

In-office lunch & dinner

Whoop band

Meal stipend

Wellness stipend

Offsites & events

Job summary

Patronus AI is seeking a versatile Engineer to join the San Francisco team as a Member of Technical Staff – Engineering. You will craft the systems, infrastructure, and products that power our simulation research and agent training efforts, spanning frontend, backend, and ML components.

You will own end-to-end initiatives, collaborate with researchers, and leverage AI tooling to automate workflows. A strong preference for independence, ownership, and a track record of shipping high-quality

Qualifications

• Hands-on generalist who ships, with strong product instincts and curiosity about agents and the frontier of AI.
• Able to operate independently in ambiguity and learn unfamiliar areas quickly; AI tooling is heavily used.
• Ship non-trivial software end-to-end as an individual contributor, ideally in a startup or high-velocity team.
• Strong fundamentals with depth in backend/infrastructure, frontend/product engineering, or ML systems.
• BS/MS/PhD in CS, ML, Software Engineering, or related quantitative field, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Build agent environments and simulations end-to-end, including UI, services, data models, and workflows for training AI agents.
• Develop infrastructure powering the agent gym: orchestration, sandboxing, packaging, benchmarking, and cross-target environments.
• Create internal platforms and dev tools for researchers and engineers, from backends to dashboards and CLIs.
• Build and operate ML infra: model deployment, evaluation systems, GPU workloads, and accessible compute for the team.
• Own systems from idea to production: define problems, design architectures, implement, instrument, and iterate.

Skills

Shipping software

Backend engineering

Frontend engineering

ML systems

Python

Go

TypeScript

LLMs/agents

Education

CS/ML/SE degree or equivalent

Tools

React

TypeScript

Next.js

Python

Databases

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Playwright

Selenium

Job description

Patronus AI is seeking a versatile Engineer to join the San Francisco team as a Member of Technical Staff – Engineering. You will craft the systems, infrastructure, and products that power our simulation research and agent training efforts, spanning frontend, backend, and ML components.

You will own end-to-end initiatives, collaborate with researchers, and leverage AI tooling to automate workflows. A strong preference for independence, ownership, and a track record of shipping high-quality