Senior Software Engineer, Agent Foundry

The Role

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll help shape the future of AI-powered workflows across Ridgeline's platform. You'll build foundational services, frameworks, and integrations that enable intelligent agents to automate work, assist users, and unlock new capabilities across our products.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable full-stack services that power AI agents across the Ridgeline platform
• Develop integrations with leading AI providers, including OpenAI and Anthropic
• Design and develop agent orchestration frameworks, tool execution systems, and context management services
• Improve evaluation frameworks that measure agent quality, reliability, safety, and performance
• Create observability, monitoring, and debugging tools for AI-powered workflows and autonomous systems
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to identify high-impact opportunities for intelligent automation
• Optimize platform performance, scalability, cost efficiency, security, and operational excellence for production AI workloads
• Prototype and evaluate emerging AI technologies, frameworks, and architectural patterns
• Contribute to technical design discussions and establish best practices for agent development across the company
• Think creatively, own problems, seek solutions, and communicate clearly along the way
• Contribute to a collaborative environment rooted in learning, teaching, and transparency

Requirements

You must be work authorized in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building distributed systems, backend services, or platform infrastructure
• Experience working with AI/ML technologies, large language models, or generative AI applications
• Familiarity with prompt engineering, agent frameworks, retrieval systems, and AI evaluation techniques
• Strong proficiency in Java, Kotlin, or similar backend programming languages
• Experience designing and operating scalable, cost-efficient cloud-native applications
• Experience or strong interest in full-stack development, including frontend technologies such as React and TypeScript
• Deep understanding of APIs, service-oriented architectures, event-driven systems, and distributed computing
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, including testing, observability, performance optimization, and system design
• Aptitude for problem solving
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Curiosity and enthusiasm for rapidly evolving AI technologies and their practical applications
• Willingness to learn about cutting-edge technologies while cultivating expertise in a business domain and problem space

Skills

• Experience building production applications using OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, or other foundation models
• Experience with MCP (Model Context Protocol), tool calling, function execution, or agent orchestration frameworks
• Familiarity with AI evaluation methodologies, benchmarking, and observability platforms
• Experience working within fintech, enterprise SaaS, or highly regulated environments
• Contributions to open-source AI or developer tooling projects

Benefits

• Company Stock Plan
• Unlimited vacation
• Educational and wellness reimbursements
• $0 cost employee insurance plans

Pay

Compensation details will be provided during the interview process.

Schedule

Full-time position.