Senior AI Platform Engineer - Hiring Sprint

The Role

Airbyte is building the runtime that powers trustworthy AI agents. We believe the future isn't simply giving LLMs access to APIs, it's building the infrastructure that allows agents to reason over enterprise context, retrieve evidence, invoke actions safely, and explain every decision they make. We're building the AI Runtime that sits between language models and enterprise systems.

The interface is becoming dramatically simpler: "Investigate this customer and tell me what changed." Behind that simple request is an intelligent runtime responsible for orchestration, routing, retrieval, evaluation, evidence generation, permissions, and action policies. You'll help build both the runtime infrastructure and the user-facing experiences that make it real.

What You’ll Do

• Build the AI Runtime
• Design and implement the orchestration layer that turns natural-language intent into reliable execution.
• Develop reusable Skills that encapsulate business workflows and domain expertise.
• Build routing systems that intelligently coordinate connectors, tools, deterministic logic, and multiple language models.
• Own features end-to-end, from runtime capability to user-facing experience.
• Develop evidence-backed reasoning with citations and traceability that users can actually see and verify.
• Implement permission models, freshness validation, and action policies that work transparently for end users.
• Ship and Iterate
• Write high-leverage code that enables entire product areas.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Design, Sales Engineering, and Customer Success to turn ambitious ideas into production systems.
• Experiment with new agent architectures while maintaining production-grade reliability.

What You’ll Need

• 7+ years of software engineering experience building production systems.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and backend architecture.
• Experience building AI applications using LLMs, agents, RAG, MCP, or modern AI frameworks.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals including APIs, concurrency, testing, and system design.
• Experience building developer platforms, orchestration systems, or workflow engines.
• Ability to rapidly prototype while maintaining production quality.
• Strong product instincts and comfort operating in ambiguous environments.
• Exceptional written communication skills.
• Bias toward ownership and shipping.

Nice To Have

• Experience building AI agents or agent frameworks, including evaluation systems.
• Familiarity with orchestration frameworks (LangGraph, Temporal, MCP, or similar).
• Experience with retrieval systems, vector search, or knowledge graphs.
• Experience building developer tools or platform infrastructure.
• Experience with data infrastructure including Kafka, Iceberg, Postgres, Spark, or modern data warehouses.

Why This Role Matters

If we succeed, every AI agent built on Airbyte will inherit those capabilities automatically, allowing developers to focus on solving business problems instead of rebuilding infrastructure.

Location

Onsite 4 days/week in San Francisco, CA

Why You'll Love Working At Airbyte

• Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
• Airbyte is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, familial status, domestic violence victim status, veteran or military status, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws.