Staff Software Engineer, Agentic AI Systems - Moveworks

ServiceNow; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

ServiceNow is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for its Agentic AI Systems team in Mountain View, California. In this role, you will drive impactful engineering solutions and help advance our AI capabilities. Applicants should have over 8 years of experience in software engineering, especially in building production systems.

The position offers the chance to work in a collaborative environment focused on AI advancements, with an emphasis on high ownership and delivery at a startup pace. Come join a dedicated team committed to improving user experiences through innovative technology.

Qualifications

• 8+ years experience designing and improving production systems.
• Clear communication on complex engineering problems.
• Comfort in feedback and accountability.

Responsibilities

• Solve engineering challenges to build reliable AI systems.
• Implement AI algorithms at scale.
• Collaborate with cross-functional experts.

Skills

Production system design

Python

Golang

Java

Team mentoring

Machine learning

Mentorship

Job description

Staff Software Engineer, Agentic AI Systems - Moveworks

• Full-time
• Employee Type: Regular
• Region: AMS - North America and Canada
• Work Persona: Required in Office

The Role

Are you a software engineer who has honed your craft, partnership, and execution over years building and improving production systems, and are looking to apply your skills at the cutting edge of AI agents? This may be the role for you.

As a senior software engineer on our “agent lab” Natural Language Understanding team, you will play an important part in our mission: to advance the frontier of work that can be entrusted to agents to perform reliably at scale. You will have the opportunity to contribute to the evolution of the Moveworks AI Assistant platform in several of the following areas: agent orchestration, sandboxed file systems and code execution, latency optimization, agent memory, LLM self-reflection and improvement, execution environment simulation, enterprise knowledge graphs, and multimodal I/O.

You will have all the tools of modern enterprise AI at your disposal, including best-in-class LLMs from providers like OpenAI. Our team indexes on moving fast on scalable infrastructure, solving challenging product and engineering problems, and pushing the envelope of value provided to customers. If you are looking to do impactful work with a bright, dedicated, and impact-driven team alongside you, we’d love to have a conversation.

What you get to do in this role

• Take on exciting and difficult engineering challenges (see areas listed above) to build and evolve capable AI agent systems that are reliable in every sense of the word
• Implement frontier AI algorithms and architectures and help productionize them at scale
• Use the latest advances in machine learning, LLMs, and AI agents to enhance our products and create delightful user experiences
• Contribute to roadmap and help drive the evolution of engineering areas of growing scope and impact to create lasting value for all our customers
• Hone your craft in writing robust, extensible, readable, and performant code
• Partner with subject matter experts across the company including in machine learning, security, product, user experience, and customer success, to learn from each other and build the best enterprise AI product the world has ever seen
• Mentor other engineers on the team in how to build, maintain, and evolve great software
• Collaborate with machine learning engineers, learn from each other, and build world-class AI systems

To be successful in this role you have

• 8+ years experience designing, building, and improving production systems, ideally at scale
• Ability to think and communicate clearly about complex engineering problems and systems
• Comfort giving and receiving feedback, and in holding yourself and your coworkers accountable to a high standard of operational excellence
• Readiness to hit the ground running in a Mac development environment, programming in Python, Golang, and/or Java
• Desire to ship at a startup pace with a high degree of ownership
• Drive to ship product improvements with production-grade code
• Strong appetite for continuous incremental wins and completing challenging projects fast
• High level of curiosity about engineering outside of immediate discipline and ongoing desire to learn and stay at the cutting edge of applied AI

Equal Opportunity Employer

ServiceNow is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin or nationality, ancestry, age, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, veteran status, or any other category protected by law. In addition, all qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with legal requirements.

Accommodations

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