Staff Frontier AI Engineer for Production Agents

Fdetimes; San Francisco (CA); Sur place; USD 265 000 - 331 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Comprehensive health

Dental and vision coverage

Retirement benefits

Learning and development stipend

Generous PTO

Commuter stipend

Résumé du poste

Scale AI is hiring a Staff Frontier Agent Engineer (Applied AI) to bridge cutting-edge AI research with production deployment for enterprise customers. You will design, evaluate, and deploy intelligent systems that combine frontier models with structured knowledge, retrieval, and traditional ML to solve real business problems.

You will work across diverse industries, build multi-agent systems, and help translate frontier AI research into scalable production solutions while maintaining a focus on

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering, machine learning, or applied AI experience.
• Strong Python programming skills.
• 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.
• Experience designing or evaluating AI systems using quantitative metrics.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work directly with enterprise customers.

Responsabilités

• Own the full experimentation lifecycle, from hypothesis generation to production rollout.
• Design rigorous evaluation frameworks using offline benchmarks, online A/B experiments, golden datasets, regression suites, LLM-as-a-Judge, and human evaluation.
• Run controlled experiments and ablation studies to understand the contribution of different models, prompts, retrieval strategies, reasoning techniques, memory systems, and agent architectures.
• Continuously evaluate newly released frontier models and determine where they meaningfully improve quality, latency, reliability, or cost.
• Develop confidence estimation, reflection, and continuous learning systems that improve agents over time using real-world feedback.
• Measure success through business outcomes, not benchmark scores.

Connaissances

Python

Production AI systems

AI tooling

Cloud platforms

Docker

Kubernetes

Communication

Experimentation & evaluation

Outils

OpenAI tooling

Claude

MCP

vector databases

retrieval systems

agent frameworks

Description du poste

Scale AI is hiring a Staff Frontier Agent Engineer (Applied AI) to bridge cutting-edge AI research with production deployment for enterprise customers. You will design, evaluate, and deploy intelligent systems that combine frontier models with structured knowledge, retrieval, and traditional ML to solve real business problems.

You will work across diverse industries, build multi-agent systems, and help translate frontier AI research into scalable production solutions while maintaining a focus on