Staff Frontier AI Engineer (Applied AI)

Scale AI, Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 252,000 - 315,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental and vision coverage

Retirement benefits

Learning and development stipend

Generous PTO

Commuter stipend

Job summary

Scale AI, Inc. is seeking a Staff Frontier Agent Engineer (Applied AI) to bridge cutting-edge research and production systems for enterprise customers.

You will design and deploy intelligent agents that combine frontier models with structured data, retrieval, and traditional ML across industries, while maintaining reliability, observability, and cost.

Expect to evaluate models, run experiments, and own end-to-end lifecycle from hypothesis to production rollout.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering, machine learning, or applied AI experience.
• Experience building production AI systems using LLMs.
• Experience with modern AI tooling including OpenAI, Claude, MCP, agent frameworks, vector databases, or retrieval systems.
• Strong understanding of machine learning fundamentals and modern language models.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work directly with enterprise customers.

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy production AI agents that leverage the latest advances in LLMs, reasoning, retrieval, memory, and tool use.
• Architect intelligent systems that combine LLMs, traditional ML, structured knowledge, enterprise data, and deterministic software into reliable production workflows.
• Engineer customer intelligence layers, retrieval pipelines, memory systems, and knowledge representations that allow agents to reason over large, heterogeneous enterprise data.
• Develop multi-agent systems that coordinate reasoning, planning, tool execution, and human oversight.
• Translate frontier AI research into production systems by evaluating new models, prompting techniques, reasoning paradigms, and agent architectures.
• Own the full experimentation lifecycle, from hypothesis generation to production rollout.

Skills

Production AI systems

Agent frameworks

Vector databases

Retrieval systems

OpenAI/ Claude / MCP

Enterprise communication

Job description

Scale AI, Inc. is seeking a Staff Frontier Agent Engineer (Applied AI) to bridge cutting-edge research and production systems for enterprise customers.

You will design and deploy intelligent agents that combine frontier models with structured data, retrieval, and traditional ML across industries, while maintaining reliability, observability, and cost.

Expect to evaluate models, run experiments, and own end-to-end lifecycle from hypothesis to production rollout.