Jobs · Engineering · California

Customer Engineer, Agent Builder

Decagon · San Francisco, CA · 5 mo ago
On-siteEngineering$175k–$230k/yrFull-time

About the role

This role is ideal for someone who thrives in fast-moving environments, enjoys shipping customer-facing technical work, and can balance hands-on execution with structured thinking. As a Customer Engineer, Agent Builder, you will be responsible for end-to-end execution of AI agent builds for strategic customers. This is a highly technical delivery role where you will own the implementation work required to launch and scale enterprise-quality agents—partnering with customers and internal teams to define success, translate requirements into build plans, and deliver agents that meaningfully impact the customer's business.

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end execution of AI agent builds for enterprise customers, from initial scoping through launch and iteration.
  • Write and maintain key agent-building artifacts (e.g., AOPs), and configure agent behavior to optimize quality, reliability, and business outcomes.
  • Configure and validate guardrails to ensure safe, compliant, and predictable agent performance across real-world scenarios.
  • Set up, test, and validate customer integrations (e.g., ticketing systems), including building tools and workflows needed for successful deployments.
  • Interface with senior technical stakeholders at customers to define success criteria, gather requirements, and drive delivery against timelines.
  • Translate customer needs into clear internal documentation and run tight feedback loops with Engineering to drive platform improvements.
  • Partner closely with APMs, Engineering, Design, and Go-To-Market teams to deliver consistent, repeatable, best-in-class agent builds.

Requirements

  • Have 5+ years of relevant experience in a technical customer-facing role (e.g., solutions engineering, forward-deployed engineering, technical consulting, implementation engineering, technical product/PM, or similar).
  • Strong technical foundation: comfortable writing code, working with APIs, and building/validating integrations end-to-end.
  • Experience delivering production-grade customer solutions that require structured execution, testing/validation, and iteration.
  • Ability to communicate clearly with senior technical stakeholders, translate requirements into implementation plans, and drive delivery.
  • Comfort working in fast-moving, ambiguous environments where you shape solutions as much as you implement them.
  • Even better if you have Experience building with or around LLMs / AI agents (prompting, evaluation, guardrails, tooling, workflow design, etc.).
  • Experience with enterprise SaaS integrations (e.g., ticketing systems, CRM, data pipelines) and associated security/compliance considerations.

Qualifications

  • A Computer Science, Engineering, or Math degree, or equivalent technical experience.
  • Strong product instinct: ability to write crisp PRDs, define success metrics, and contribute customer insight back into product roadmap.

Skills

  • Technical proficiency in programming languages and frameworks relevant to AI agent development.
  • Experience with enterprise SaaS integration platforms.
  • Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Benefits

  • We proudly offer the following benefits for our full-time employees:

    • Take what you need vacation policy (subject to local requirements; UK employees receive 25 days of statutory leave)

    • Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits for you and your family

    • Life Insurance and Disability Benefits

    • Retail Plan (e.g., 401K, pension)

    • Parental Leave

    • Fertility and family building benefits through Carrot

    • Daily lunches and snacks in the office to keep you at your best

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