Staff Frontier AI Engineer — Production-Grade AI Agents

Scale AI; New York (NY); On-site; USD 265,000 - 331,000; Full time

Job summary

Scale AI is seeking a Staff Frontier Agent Engineer (Applied AI) to bridge cutting-edge research and production deployment. You will work directly with enterprise customers to design, evaluate, and deploy intelligent systems that combine frontier models with structured knowledge, retrieval, and enterprise software.

This role spans multiple industries and use cases, from healthcare copilot to autonomous workflows.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering, ML, or applied AI experience.
• Strong Python programming skills.
• Experience building production AI systems using LLMs.
• Experience with modern AI tooling (OpenAI, Claude, MCP, etc.).
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work directly with enterprise customers.

Skills

Python programming

Production AI systems

Enterprise customer work

Communication skills

Machine learning fundamentals

Tools

OpenAI tools

Claude

MCP

Agent frameworks

Vector databases

Retrieval systems

Job description

Scale AI is seeking a Staff Frontier Agent Engineer (Applied AI) to bridge cutting-edge research and production deployment. You will work directly with enterprise customers to design, evaluate, and deploy intelligent systems that combine frontier models with structured knowledge, retrieval, and enterprise software.

This role spans multiple industries and use cases, from healthcare copilot to autonomous workflows.