Staff Engineer - AI Agents

About the role

7-Eleven is looking for a Staff Engineer - Agents to join the Enterprise AI Team!

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and implementation of advanced agentic systems and algorithms.
• Architect, design, develop, and deploy AI models across traditional and agentic solutions.
• Build and deploy high-impact, robust AI pipelines, including data extraction, feature development, model training, testing, and deployment.
• Conduct deep dives into algorithmic components and systems, ensuring models are optimized for both performance and scalability across multiple regions and product areas.
• Ability to conduct thorough exploratory data analysis, identify patterns and trends, and draw meaningful insights.
• Learn and partner with peers across multiple disciplines, such as Data Engineering, Product and Platform.
• Monitor and maintain production models, ensuring their continued performance and reliability.
• Evaluate and grow technical talent throughout the AI team, with a focus on subject matter expertise.
• Represent the Enterprise AI teams in cross-functional meetings with other technical teams.
• Stay up to date with emerging technologies and learn new technologies/libraries/frameworks.
• Deliver on time with a high bar on quality of research, innovation and engineering.

Basic Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience working in a technical AI role, with 2 to 3 years in a senior technical AI role.
• 4+ years of experience building AI models and solutions from research to production, using common ML frameworks like scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch, LangChain/LangGraph etc.
• 2+ years of experience building LLM based Chat and Agentic Assistants, and building scalable products for 1000+ users.
• 2+ years of experience reviewing and refining AI architecture and conducting code reviews.
• 2+ years of experience leading a team of engineers in a technical lead capacity.
• Experience with major cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), building and deploying scalable AI systems.
• Strong understanding of LLM models, LLM Engineering architecture and ecosystem, including context, tools, skills, harness etc, with demonstrated delivery.
• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Computer Science/Engineering/Math, or relevant experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• MSc or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related field.
• Experience with Databricks.
• Experience building and scaling custom Chatbots and Multi-Agent systems successfully.
• Experience training and evaluating AI models.
• Experience delivering production quality systems leveraging emerging technologies.