Frontier Agent Engineer

Position:
Frontier Agents Engineer (Applied AI)

Company:
Scale AI

Compensation:
$180,000—$225,000 USD

Location:
United States, San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA; New York, NY

Employment type:
Full-time

Work Arrangement:
Not specified

Short Summary:
Join Scale AI to shape the future of AI by bridging cutting-edge research and production deployment as a Frontier Agent Engineer. Work with enterprise customers to design and deploy intelligent systems that solve real business problems across various industries.

Responsibilities:
- Design and deploy production AI agents leveraging advances in AI.
- Architect intelligent systems combining LLMs, traditional ML, and enterprise data.
- Engineer customer intelligence layers and retrieval pipelines.
- Own the full experimentation lifecycle from hypothesis to production rollout.
- Build production-quality AI systems with a focus on reliability and safety.
- Partner with enterprise customers to translate business challenges into AI solutions.

Requirement:
- 4+ years of software engineering, machine learning, or applied AI experience.
- Strong Python programming skills.
- Experience building production AI systems using LLMs.
- Familiarity with modern AI tooling and machine learning fundamentals.
- Excellent communication skills for direct customer interaction.

Benefits:
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage.
- Retirement benefits.
- Learning and development stipend.
- Generous PTO.
- Potential commuter stipend.