Staff Backend Engineer, Agentic Systems (Production AI)
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Mercor is hiring a Member of Technical Staff on Talent Experience in San Francisco. You will build backend systems and agent infrastructure behind Mercor's talent network, designing services that source, screen, match, and support experts with minimal human intervention. This hands-on role involves coding end-to-end, collaborating with product, operations, and AI researchers to decide what should be an agent and what should stay deterministic, with an emphasis on observability and guardrails. #J-18808-Ljbffr AI Chopping Block
$182k - $310k
...one ideas into real products, and you “get... ...end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and... ...intelligent, autonomous systems that eliminate... ..., and expect engineers to own problems end... ...About the RoleAs a Staff Backend Engineer, you’ll design... ...) that power agentic workflows, AI copilots...SuggestedTemporary workLocal areaWorldwide- ...with a startup building AI-powered systems to modernize a legacy... ...industry. The team seeks engineers to design, build, and... ..., collaborating across product, infrastructure, and AI... ...complex workflows with agentic architectures and scalable backend design, while shipping...Suggested
- Overview We’re hiring at SkillBench: Staff Backend Engineer - Production Platform (Tech Lead) AI is rapidly transforming how software gets built. With coding assistants... ...7+ years building production backend and data systems Strong architecture leadership + mentoring track...SuggestedPermanent employmentFull timeContract workImmediate startShift work
$160k - $300k
A leading technology firm is seeking a Backend Engineer with 5+ years of experience to develop scalable systems and optimize performance. The ideal candidate will have expertise in backend development, proficiency in Python, Java, or Go, and a strong background in cloud...Suggested- ...infrastructure company. Our products are used by leading... ...to build best-in-class AI agents with flexible... ...a world-class team of engineers, designers, marketers,... ...build and maintain our backend that already handles millions... ...on distributed systems, databases, maintainable...SuggestedWork at officeVisa sponsorshipFlexible hours
$175k - $200k
Staff Platform Engineer - Agentic AI Systems, IFS The Loops Staff Platform Engineer - Agentic AI Systems, IFS The Loops 2 days ago Be among the first 25... ...performance. Collaborate closely with infrastructure, SRE, and product teams to ensure platform scalability aligns with...Full timeFor contractorsFlexible hours- Ambral is hiring to build a replayable enterprise history engine and deploy it in real workflows. You will work closely with the CTO to design production systems, process real enterprise data, and improve agent performance through reinforcement learning and context engineering...
- ...knowledge work. We build AI products for financial... ...research, product, design, engineering, and go-to-market to bring... ...Role We're looking for backend engineers to build the systems that make advanced AI useful... ...build the data systems, agentic workflows, and...Full time
- ...RL environments and robust backend services to stress-test frontier AI models. You will collaborate... ...Researchers to translate designs into production-grade software and evaluation systems. The role demands hands-on... ...or Go, plus LLM APIs, agentic loops, and tool calling in a...
$200k - $400k
Senior Software Engineer - Agentic Systems We are partnered with a highly technical AI research company building advanced AI systems capable of operating across complex... ...teams to integrate agent workflows into real production toolchains. This role offers deep technical...Full timeImmediate start- ...trusted decision-ready AI to the world's... ...on. As a Staff Machine Learning Engineer, you’ll own AI-driven products end to end, from the... ...to the production system the mission depends... ...language models, agentic systems, retrieval... ...building production backend software, with a track...Full timeContract workRemote workFlexible hours
- ...intersection of foundational AI and systems design for real-world... ...up; one that is agentic, vertically integrated... ...industries, and built products that reshaped how people... ...for a Senior Software Engineer focused on AI systems... ...engineers who have a backend/systems engineering foundation...Full time
- Enam, Inc. is seeking an AI-focused software engineer to design and deploy AI-powered solutions in a fast... ...environment. You will work with product, operations, and engineering to ship... ...turning data and workflows into scalable systems with attention to latency, cost, and...
- ...About David AI David AI is the first audio data research... ...team of former Scale AI engineers and operators. In less... ...research, engineering, product, and operations minds to... ...About this role As a Backend Engineer at David AI, you'll build the systems and infrastructure that...Full timeWork at office
- Fountain is hiring for a backend-focused engineer to help scale our workforce management platform. You will own production-grade systems, drive architectural decisions for human and agentic interfaces, and collaborate with product and design teams to deliver impact for...Worldwide
- ...create their own products. Plaid powers the... ...tooling that help engineering teams develop, deploy... ...production systems safely. Release Engineering... ...product team.As a Staff Site Reliability... ...and safe even as AI-assisted development... ...experience in backend systems, SRE, or platform...Permanent employmentWork experience placementWork at officeLocal area
$231k - $318k
...discover the best products from around the world... ...less like a search engine and more like a... ...what will sell.As a Staff Engineer on the Search... ..., and Gen-AI experiences that drive... ..., high-performance system.You’re excited about... ...in high-performance backend systems, Protocol Buffers...Work experience placementWork at officeLocal areaRemote workMonday to FridayFlexible hours3 days per week$194k - $267k
Secure Every Identity, from AI to HumanIdentity is the... ...user behavior and system data to proactively hunt... ...team of full-stack engineers, visionary data scientists... ...Protection with Okta AIThe Staff Software Engineer... ...scaling world-class security products—from concept to global...Permanent employmentLocal areaRemote workWorldwideFlexible hours$252k - $315k
About Scale AIScale AI is the data foundation... ...and deploy reliable production AI applications. We... ...through frontier AI systems that solve real... ...one of the hardest engineering challenges.As a Staff Frontier Agent Engineer... ...architectures, and agentic systems, rapidly developing...Full time$180k - $336k
...We are growing our Applied AI org and seeking talented Senior/Staff Machine Learning Engineers with expertise in LLM training, evaluation, and production-oriented ML systems. You’ll work on improving Lila... ..., multi-modal models, or agentic AI systems. Clear communication...Full timeWork at officeLocal areaFlexible hours- ...Staff AI Engineer Goodfin is an AI-native wealth platform focused on... ...We're building intelligent, agentic systems that help accredited investors... ...an AI "feature." AI is the product. As a Staff AI Engineer,... ...fundamentals in Python and backend system design ~ Proven...
- Perplexity is seeking energetic engineers to join our highly driven Agents engineering team. The Agents team develops backend, full-stack, and AI/ML systems powering delightful agentic experiences across Perplexity Computer, the Comet ecosystem, and our Agent API. You...
$150k - $200k
...platform for hardware engineering teams. We turn... ...vehicles, energy systems, and defense platforms... ...layer for the AI era of physical systems... ...comes with real product ownership and... ...users of frontier agentic products ourselves... ...etc.) and complex backend services with technologies...Permanent employmentFull timeWork at officeRelocation- ...Staff Frontend Engineer, AI Product UX Location: San Francisco - hybrid, in-office two days a week Compensation... ..., question, and approve what AI systems produce. The challenge is not just... ...read and reason about our Go/Python backend even if you don’t live there....Full timeWork at officeFlexible hours2 days per week
$160k - $250k
...leadership role at the heart of an AI-native engineering software company, owning the core agent... ...you do here will define real-world product value for enterprise customers.... ...years building and shipping real-world agentic LLM systems (tool calling, multi-step workflows,...For contractors$160k - $250k
...well-funded, early-stage AI startup in the mechanical engineering software space is looking for a Staff Engineer — Agentic AI to own the core agent... ...agentic AI, user research, and product delivery. The company... ...instincts for agentic systems — task completion, cost...For contractors$225.5k - $265k
...people in the age of AI. As bots and... ...cryptography, mobile engineering, and global operations... ...about the newest product launches from our... ...digital identity system and proof of... ...Opportunity: As a Staff Software Engineer... ...scalable and reliable backend systems. Technical...Flexible hours- ...Raindrop Monitoring Platform Raindrop is the monitoring platform for AI agents. Engineering teams at Fortune 100s and the fastest-growing AI companies use it to catch silent failures in production. When an agent misbehaves, Raindrop alerts the team, links to the trace...Temporary work
$190.2k - $345.65k
...multimedia generative AI — deep-tuned image,... ...with creative production workflows and a media... ...are hiring a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer to architect and lead... ...intelligence — the systems that turn massive volumes... ...that expose it as agentic search: retrieval designed...Full timeTemporary workLocal areaWorldwide- ...Are? We're exceptionally product-minded builders. We obsess... ...we're looking for Senior or Staff Engineers to help scale us to a $XXM+ in... ...all-time high and we love our AI tooling (e.g. Claude Code, ChatGPT... ...with ATS and HRIS systems Datadog, Sentry, LaunchDarkly...Work at office
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