Software Engineer, AI Engineer (Applied​/Software), Backend Developer

Location: New York City or Minneapolis, USA

Working Model: Hybrid – 3 days in-office

Salary: Competitive

About the Role

We’re looking for a hands-on Staff Software Engineer to build and scale the infrastructure behind enterprise AI agents. You’ll work across AI agent runtimes, memory systems, orchestration and secure execution, ensuring complex AI workflows operate reliably in production.

This is an opportunity to solve challenging problems across applied AI, distributed systems and platform engineering.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop AI agent runtimes, reasoning loops and orchestration systems.
• Build agent memory, retrieval and context-management capabilities.
• Develop secure, isolated execution environments for AI agents.
• Implement tool integrations using MCP and related interfaces.
• Improve AI evaluation, observability, reliability and performance.
• Lead architectural decisions, mentor engineers and remain hands-on.

Requirements

• Strong Python skills and experience with Type Script, Java, Go, Kotlin or Rust.
• Extensive backend, distributed systems and platform engineering experience.
• Experience building production LLM applications, AI agents or multi-step AI workflows.
• Knowledge of containers, cloud infrastructure, security and asynchronous systems.
• Proven technical leadership and strong architectural judgment.

Nice to have: Docker, Kubernetes, MCP, multi-agent systems, agent memory architectures and enterprise SaaS experience.