Staff Frontier Agents Engineer

Scale AI
San Francisco, New York, Seattle2026-05-15

About the job

As a Staff Frontier Agents Engineer on our Enterprise team, you'll be the technical bridge between Scale AI's cutting-edge AI capabilities and our most strategic customers. You'll work with enterprise clients to understand their unique challenges, architect custom AI solutions, and ensure successful deployment and adoption of AI systems in production environments.

Responsibilities

Partner directly with enterprise customers to understand their technical infrastructure, data pipelines, and business requirements

Design and implement custom integrations between Scale AI's platform and customer data environments (cloud platforms, data warehouses, internal APIs)

Build robust data connectors and ETL pipelines to ingest, process, and prepare customer data for AI workflows

Deploy and configure AI models and agents within customer security and compliance boundaries

Develop production-grade AI agents tailored to customer use cases across domains like customer support, data analysis, content generation, and workflow automation

Architect multi-agent systems that orchestrate between different models, tools, and data sources

Implement evaluation frameworks to measure agent performance and iterate toward business objectives

Design human-in-the-loop workflows and feedback mechanisms for continuous agent improvement

Create sophisticated prompt engineering strategies optimized for customer-specific domains and data

Build and maintain prompt libraries, templates, and best practices for customer use cases

Conduct systematic prompt experimentation and A/B testing to improve model outputs

Implement RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) systems and fine-tuning pipelines where appropriate

Serve as the primary technical point of contact for strategic enterprise accounts

Collaborate with customer data scientists, ML engineers, and software developers to ensure smooth integration

Provide technical training and knowledge transfer to customer teams

Work closely with Scale's product and engineering teams to translate customer needs into product improvements

Document technical architectures, integration patterns, and best practices

Debug complex technical issues across the entire stack, from data pipelines to model outputs

Rapidly prototype solutions to unblock customers and prove out new use cases

Stay current on the latest AI/ML research and tools, bringing innovative approaches to customer problems

Identify opportunities for productization based on common customer patterns

Qualifications

Minimum

8+ years of software engineering experience with strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and system design

Production Python expertise with experience in modern ML/AI frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex, HuggingFace, OpenAI API)

Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and modern data infrastructure

Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to navigate ambiguous requirements and rapidly iterate toward solutions

Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences

Preferred

Deep understanding of LLMs including prompting techniques, embeddings, and RAG architectures

Experience building and deploying AI agents or autonomous systems in production

Knowledge of vector databases and semantic search systems

Contributions to open-source AI/ML projects

Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and CI/CD pipelines

Experience using Terraform, Bicep, or other Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools

Previous work in a devops, platform, or infra role

Familiarity with enterprise security, compliance, and governance requirements (SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA)

Proven ability to work with customers in a technical consulting, solutions engineering, or product engineering role

Domain expertise in verticals like finance, healthcare, government, or manufacturing

Experience with technical enablement or teaching programs