Staff AI Agent Engineer
Liberate · Boston, MA · 2 mo ago
Engineering$72/hrFull-time
About the role
This role is hands-on, customer-facing, and deeply technical. You are not a solutions engineer. You are an engineer who ships.
Responsibilities
- Own complex, high-impact agent deployments from design through production
- Design, build, and iterate on agent workflows, prompts, evals, and integrations
- Turn customer-specific learnings into reusable templates, playbooks, and patterns
- Partner with Product and Platform to influence roadmap based on real-world usage
- Debug and improve agent behavior using structured evals, monitoring, and analysis
- Lead technical reviews for agent design, launch readiness, and post-launch quality
- Mentor other Agent Engineers through example and direct coaching
- Raise the bar on engineering quality, operational rigor, and reuse in deployments
Requirements
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Strong hands-on experience building and operating production systems
- Fluency in Python and modern backend systems (APIs, services, cloud)
- Experience working with LLM-based systems, prompts, tools, or agent frameworks
- Able to reason about quality, failure modes, and operational risk
- Comfort working directly with customers on technically complex problems
- High ownership, good judgment, and the ability to operate under pressure
Qualifications
- Nice to have: Experience with agentic systems, eval frameworks, or AI observability
- Nice to have: Prior work in B2B SaaS, enterprise software, or regulated environments
- Nice to have: Experience turning bespoke solutions into reusable systems