Staff Core Engineer (Platform Team)- US

About the Role

As a Staff Core Engineer on the Platform team at Lyzr, you will own entire complex systems end-to-end, setting the technical direction for our core agent architecture. This hands-on technical leadership role involves leading design reviews, setting quality standards, mentoring engineers, and making architectural decisions to ensure our AI workforce runs reliably in production at scale.

Responsibilities

• Design and own entire complex systems end-to-end, from architecture through production operation
• Own the core agent architecture: orchestration, tool execution, agent memory, RAG, Text2SQL, and guardrails
• Drive scalability and reliability across distributed systems serving enterprise agent workloads
• Establish robust cloud, CI/CD, monitoring, logging, and tracing practices for the platform
• Bring a research-driven mindset—evaluate emerging techniques and turn promising ideas into shipped capabilities
• Lead design reviews, set engineering quality standards, and mentor senior and junior engineers
• Partner with product and other teams to translate ambiguous problems into durable technical strategy

Requirements

• Demonstrated track record of building impactful, large-scale systems end-to-end
• Deep expertise in distributed systems and scalable architectures
• Strong, current Python expertise and excellent system design instincts
• Hands-on experience operating production systems on the cloud with mature CI/CD, monitoring, logging, and tracing
• Experience with one or more core agent components: orchestration, tool execution, memory, RAG, Text2SQL, or guardrails
• Proven ability to mentor engineers, lead design reviews, and raise the bar for quality across a team

Qualifications

• Nice to Have: Go for performance-critical components
• Published research or open-source contributions in LLM/agent infrastructure
• Experience building guardrails, safety, or responsible-AI systems
• Prior experience in an enterprise or regulated environment (e.g., banking, insurance)