Staff Engineer, Agentic

About this role

Staff Engineer, Agentic

Inflection · Palo Alto, California, United States · Palo Alto

Frontier labonsitestaff$350k–$500k

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At a glance

Highlights

• Own platforms bringing conversational AI to life at scale for millions.
• Build agentic workflows with memory, retrieval, and tool integrations.
• Drive features from prototype to production with measurable user impact.

What they offer

• Meaningful equity component
• Robust medical, dental and vision options with employer contributions for HSA, FSA and DFSA
• 401k matching program
• Flexible Time Off, 10 paid holidays, 5 days sick leave
• Parental, Medical and Family care leave
• Generous cell-phone, wellness and office set up stipends

Ideal candidate

A seasoned backend owner who thrives operating reliable systems at scale and loves turning AI prototypes into trusted products for millions. You care deeply about velocity, quality, and emotionally intelligent AI.

Requirements

• 10-15 years of backend engineering experience shipping production systems in cloud environments
• Demonstrated experience building, shipping, and operating agentic AI systems in production with real user impact
• Strong production experience with Python, Postgres, Redis, and AWS, GCP, or Azure including containers and Kubernetes
• Practical experience with LLM patterns including RAG, tool use, evaluation loops, and latency/cost/quality tradeoffs
• Strong ownership with ability to independently drive systems to production and operate reliably
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in related field

visa sponsorship : Support of country-specific visa needs for international employees living in the Bay Area