Staff Engineer, Agentic AI

About the Role

Lead the development of agent intelligence that helps engineers complete complex workflows across desktop engineering software. You will be a hands-on technical lead for a small AI team, partnering with user research and domain experts to deliver reliable, cost-efficient capabilities grounded in real engineering workflows.

What You'll Do

• Own agent architecture for tool calling, state management, error recovery, model routing, and context management.
• Define and improve task success metrics, establishing baselines and tracking workflow completion, cost, and failure modes.
• Build rigorous, reproducible evaluation infrastructure that translates validated user stories into test cases.
• Work with researchers, domain experts, and engineers to map user workflows and prioritize valuable agent capabilities.
• Set per-task token budgets and measure cost per completed workflow.
• Lead a small team through technical direction, design reviews, code reviews, and hands-on implementation.
• Collaborate with product, integrations, and customers to align agent behavior with real-world use.

What We're Looking For

• At least 7 years of software engineering experience, including 2 or more years building LLM agents that take real-world actions.
• Deep knowledge of LLM application architecture, including model selection, context management, retrieval, tool calling, and orchestration.
• Experience creating agent evaluation and benchmarking frameworks for task completion, cost efficiency, and failure analysis.
• Strong Python skills and familiarity with function calling, tool APIs, observability or tracing, and evaluation tools.
• Hands-on technical leadership experience guiding a small engineering team while continuing to write production code.
• Experience shipping AI or LLM tools over proprietary engineering data or desktop engineering software.
• Experience with desktop automation or application APIs, such as COM, and familiarity with enterprise workstation constraints.
• Background in mechanical engineering software, CAD/CAE, PLM, or a related engineering domain.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: $160,000 to $250,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

On-site in San Francisco, California, United States.