Staff Software Engineer, AI Platform
Technical leader building agent infrastructure, observability, evals, and guardrails for production AI systems at Watershed. Requires 6+ years backend/platform/AI engineering experience and production TypeScript systems.
Responsibilities
- Design and build the agent infrastructure that powers Watershed's products
- Develop the observability and tracing layer for agent decisions, making it possible to debug, evaluate, and improve agent behavior at scale
- Build evals, harnesses, and guardrails that turn agent capabilities into production-grade, dependable systems
- Collaborate with product and other AI engineering teams to set product and technical strategy, and define the boundaries between autonomous agent behavior, deterministic code, and human oversight
- Keep up with developments and state-of-the-art in AI and agent infrastructure to determine what is relevant to Watershed
- Work closely with Watershed product teams to contribute your expertise to build agent experiences across the product
- Write performant, well-crafted, tested, and maintainable code across our technical stack
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in backend, platform, or AI/ML engineering
- Experience building products and infrastructure that leverage LLMs, embeddings, and other ML technologies
- Full lifecycle experience building, deploying, and monitoring production systems that depend on LLMs or other ML technologies
- Experience with model evaluation, agent observability, and making non-deterministic systems reliable
- Experience building and operating production Typescript systems
- Must be willing to work from an office 4 days per week
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