Member of Technical Staff, Agentic Systems

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and own backend services powering agentic workflows, including orchestration, tool calling, retries, fallbacks, and human-in-the-loop review.
• Ship agents to production and iterate on prompts, tools, guardrails, cost, and latency using real usage.
• Build evaluation infrastructure, including offline evaluations, online metrics, and regression detection.
• Design scalable core services, data models, and APIs for the talent network.
• Make agent decisions observable, auditable, and reversible.
• Partner with product, operations, and AI researchers to determine what should be agent-driven, deterministic, or human-reviewed.
• Establish backend engineering standards and patterns and raise the technical bar of other engineers.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional backend engineering experience.
• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems, service architecture, data modeling, and API design at scale.
• Hands-on experience building production systems with large language models, including agents, tool use, retrieval, or evaluation systems; or a demonstrated ability to learn new systems quickly and ship them.
• Experience owning systems end to end, from design through production operation.
• Fluency with modern AI development tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, or GitHub Copilot.
• Comfort working with ambiguity and making technical tradeoffs.
• Strong technical judgment, clear writing, and excellent communication skills.
• High ownership, pragmatism, and a bias toward shipping.

Compensation and Benefits

• Salary range: $130,000–$500,000 per year.
• Generous equity grant vesting over four years.
• $20,000 relocation bonus for moving to the Bay Area.
• $10,000 housing bonus for living within 0.5 miles of the office.
• $1,500 monthly meal stipend.
• Free Equinox membership.
• Health insurance.