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Senior Agentic AI Engineer

194k – 239kSan Francisco, CANew York, NYML EngineeringHybrid5+ YOE
Summary

Build and scale production multi-agent AI systems for autonomous property inspections, damage assessment, and estimation workflows. Requires 5+ years building production AI systems with LLMs, agents, and orchestration.

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and improve multi-agent workflows, orchestration systems, evaluation frameworks, and reliability mechanisms that power autonomous inspections, damage assessments, and estimation workflows.
  • Develop confidence scoring, observability, testing, and human-in-the-loop systems that improve accuracy, trust, and production performance.
  • Investigate issues, monitor system behavior, and continuously improve reliability at scale.
  • Partner closely with Product, Design, Platform Engineering, and Data Engineering to deliver high-quality AI experiences.
  • Contribute to technical design discussions, translate customer needs into solutions, and help raise the engineering bar through strong execution and collaboration.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience building production software systems.
  • Experience building and shipping AI-powered products or systems used by real customers.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals, including distributed systems, APIs, observability, testing, and debugging.
  • Experience working with LLMs, AI agents, workflow orchestration, retrieval systems, or related AI infrastructure.
  • Ability to reason about reliability, failure modes, and operational tradeoffs in production environments.
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills with both technical and non-technical partners.
  • Curiosity, ownership, and a desire to solve complex problems in ambiguous environments.

Nice-to-Haves

  • Experience building production agentic systems or autonomous workflows.
  • Experience with evaluation frameworks, confidence scoring, or human-in-the-loop systems.
  • Experience in regulated or high-trust domains such as insurance, fintech, healthcare, or legal.
  • Familiarity with AI observability, experimentation platforms, or production ML infrastructure.
  • Experience at a startup or high-growth technology company.

Compensation & Benefits

  • Competitive salary and meaningful equity in a fast-growing company.
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and dependents.
  • Unlimited and flexible vacation policy.
  • Generous paid parental and new child bonding leave.
  • Mandatory self-care days each month.
  • Remote wellbeing resources including fitness classes, meditation/mindfulness tools, virtual therapy, and family planning assistance.
  • Support for continued education including management training, conferences, workshops, or certifications.
Skills
LLMsAI agentsWorkflow orchestrationRetrieval systemsDistributed systemsAPIsObservabilityTestingDebuggingMulti-agent systems
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