Staff Engineer, Open-Source AI Platform & Agent Systems

Prime Intellect, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

In-person SF office

Visa sponsorship

Relocation support

Development budget

Team off-sites

Job summary

Prime Intellect is building an open frontier AI platform and Prime Agent, a generalist software engineering role spanning product development and agent systems. You will own features end-to-end, from design through deployment and monitoring, shipping at the pace of an early-stage company tackling frontier AI challenges.

This role is based in our San Francisco office. Candidates must be based in San Francisco and work in person.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering skills in TypeScript and Python.
• Experience building developer tools, dashboards, platform products, and working with agent harnesses.
• Strong product judgment and attention to user experience, with the ability to turn complex capabilities into intuitive workflows.
• Experience building reliable systems with asynchronous execution and real-time interactions.
• Awareness of what's happening at the frontier - new models, agent capabilities, and tooling - and the ability to translate that into product decisions.
• A bias toward shipping, ownership of production code, and pragmatic engineering judgment.

Responsibilities

• Build intuitive interfaces for working with agents and managing their tasks.
• Own features end-to-end, from design through deployment and operation.
• Work with users to understand their needs and turn feedback into product improvements.
• Work closely with teams across the Prime ecosystem to build cloud agents, self-improving loops, and integrations for traces and post-training.
• Work closely with researchers to turn new agent capabilities into reliable product features.
• Contribute to internal tooling, automation, and developer experience improvements.

Skills

TypeScript

Python

Developer tools

User experience

Product mindset

Tools

Agent harnesses

Dashboards

Real-time systems

WebSocket

Job description

Prime Intellect is building an open frontier AI platform and Prime Agent, a generalist software engineering role spanning product development and agent systems. You will own features end-to-end, from design through deployment and monitoring, shipping at the pace of an early-stage company tackling frontier AI challenges.

This role is based in our San Francisco office. Candidates must be based in San Francisco and work in person.