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Frontier Agents Engineer (Forward Deployed Engineering)

Scale AI
Posted a month ago

LOCATION

San Francisco · Onsite

EXPERIENCE

4+ Years

TYPE

FullTime

SALARY

$180K - $225K /year

SKILLS REQUIRED

LLM ApplicationsPythondistributed systemsProduction System DesignRetrieval Augmented Generation

Job description

Overview

As a Frontier Agent Engineer (Forward Deployed Engineering), you work with strategic enterprise customers to architect, integrate, deploy, and operate production AI systems.

What you'll do

  • Architect and deploy production AI systems that integrate with enterprise cloud platforms, data warehouses, internal APIs, and proprietary software.
  • Design scalable agent architectures combining LLMs, retrieval, memory, tools, structured knowledge, and enterprise data.
  • Build integrations that let AI agents safely interact with customer systems while meeting security, governance, and compliance requirements.
  • Prototype new AI capabilities and evolve prototypes into production-ready systems.
  • Develop agent runtimes, orchestration frameworks, context pipelines, execution services, and tool integrations.
  • Operationalize AI quality using evaluation harnesses and monitoring to detect quality regressions.
  • Serve as a primary technical advisor and lead architecture discussions for strategic enterprise accounts.

What you'll need

  • 4+ years of software engineering experience with distributed systems, data structures, algorithms, and system design fundamentals.
  • Strong Python programming skills for building production software.
  • Experience building or deploying AI-powered applications using modern LLM APIs, agent frameworks, MCP, retrieval systems, or vector databases.
  • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and production infrastructure.
  • Strong problem-solving skills to navigate ambiguous technical requirements and rapidly iterate toward production solutions.
  • Excellent communication skills to work directly with enterprise engineering teams.

Details

  • Role is full-time.

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Frontier Agents Engineer (Forward Deployed Engineering)