Sr. AI Software Engineer - Agent Harness

About the role

The role involves designing and building the agent loop, implementing tool integrations, managing context, scheduling tasks, and ensuring security. The harness is model-agnostic and supports both local and cloud models.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the agent loop: planning, tool invocation, observation handling, retries, termination
• Implement tool integrations: file I/O, terminal/shell execution, web, MCP servers, message apps
• Build context management: what goes in the window, when to summarize, how to use long/cross-session memory
• Implement scheduling and automatic/background task execution
• Design agent security mechanisms through different approaches
• Make the loop observable, debuggable: tracing, replay, and reproducible agent sessions

Requirements

• BS/MS in CS, EE, Math or related STEM field
• 8+ years software development background
• Strong command of Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, C++
• Expertise with async, concurrency, and process/subprocess management
• Experience with projects that call external tools or APIs in a loop and handle failure modes
• Experienced at reading unfamiliar codebases and someone else’s runtime

Qualifications

• Preferred qualifications include experience with agent frameworks, tool/function calling, or MCP, experience with developer tooling, CLIs, or IDE-adjacent products, familiarity with sandboxing, containerization, and safe code execution, contributions to open-source agent/LLM tooling, and experience with agent security.

Benefits

Intel offers a comprehensive benefits package including health, retirement, and vacation benefits. For more details, visit Intel Benefits | Intel Careers.

Pay

$195,200.00 - 361,200.00 USD

Schedule

Shift 1 (United States of America)