Senior Frontend Engineer, AI Agents
Balyasny Asset Management L.P. · Chicago, IL · 1 mo ago
HybridEngineeringFull-time
What You'll Do
- Build the core UI for BAM's AI workspace — assistants, agentic workflows, deep research, scheduled prompts, and multi-agent collaboration
- Design experiences for streaming responses, asynchronous runs, tool execution, and long-running agent tasks including progress, intervention, and failure recovery
- Develop reusable rendering systems for tool and plugin outputs, structured results, citations, and rich AI artifacts
- Drive frontend architecture across state management, rendering strategy, performance, testing, and observability
- Partner with backend and ML engineers to translate model and agent capabilities into reliable, legible user experiences
- Mentor engineers and contribute to technical standards across the platform
- Participate in on-call rotations for production issues affecting the user experience
Minimum Qualifications
- 10+ years of professional software development with substantial modern frontend experience
- Expert-level React and TypeScript
- Strong Next.js experience and fluency with modern frontend architecture patterns
- Experience building streaming or asynchronous UIs with robust loading, retry, and error states
- Strong understanding of state management, caching, rendering tradeoffs, and performance optimization
- Experience building reusable component systems in large codebases
- Solid testing discipline across unit, integration, and end-to-end layers
- Strong product and UX judgment for complex, information-dense tools
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience shipping AI-native or agentic product features in production
- Familiarity with LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, or similar)
- Experience with human-in-the-loop design: approvals, intervention, agent supervision
- Familiarity with Node.js or Python and comfort working across the stack
- Experience with enterprise auth, permissions, and integration-aware UX
- Familiarity with observability tools such as Sentry or Grafana
- Background building tools for expert users in demanding domains — finance, devtools, security, research