You will lead the development of autonomous AI agents designed to automate complex SRE and production operations. This role involves building robust reasoning engines, evaluation frameworks, and self-improving systems. You will bridge the gap between high-scale infrastructure and machine learning to solve non-deterministic engineering challenges at scale for global technology companies.
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Staff Software Engineer, AI at well-funded AI infrastructure startup
Are you ready to move beyond basic chatbots and build truly autonomous agents? This well-funded AI startup is seeking a Staff Engineer to lead the development of a reasoning engine that automates SRE and production operations. You will design self-improving systems and evaluation frameworks for agents that remediate complex infrastructure issues in real-time. If you have deep experience with high-scale distributed systems and have built end-to-end agents before, this is a unique opportunity to join an elite team of veterans in San Francisco and shape the future of autonomous engineering operations.
Overview
Role overview
Company
About the company
Well-funded AI infrastructure startup
Responsibilities
What you will do
- Design and implement sophisticated agent evaluation frameworks to measure and improve reasoning performance and system reliability.
- Build autonomous agents capable of executing complex, multi-step tasks across distributed infrastructure environments including Kubernetes and Kafka.
- Debug agent behavior by tracing reasoning paths and tool-calling logic to resolve non-deterministic failures in production.
Candidate profile
Who this is a fit for
- Deep experience building and operating high-scale production systems with a strong foundation in ML fundamentals and evaluation metrics.
- Proven track record of building at least one autonomous agent end-to-end and a preference for using AI-augmented workflows.
- Expert-level proficiency in Python and experience with systems languages like Rust, Go, or JVM-based languages for scalable backend development.
What makes it remarkable
Why this role is remarkable
- Work at the cutting edge of autonomous agents, moving beyond simple chatbots to systems that remediate production issues independently.
- Join an elite team of AI and infrastructure veterans backed by top-tier venture capital firms and prominent Silicon Valley angels.
- Influence the foundational architecture of a product already deployed at high-scale technology companies in fintech and autonomous vehicle sectors.
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