1 day ago
Base Salary
$177k - $329k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect, build, and deploy intelligent AI agents, orchestration workflows, decision logic, and collaboration patterns for complex enterprise applications.
- Design tool schemas, APIs, permissions, error handling, asynchronous workflows, and human-in-the-loop escalation paths for agentic systems.
- Optimize agents for accuracy, task-completion reliability, latency, cost efficiency, and end-user experience.
- Design memory, context retention, retrieval-augmented generation, and summarization strategies.
- Establish evaluation frameworks, observability metrics, synthetic test scenarios, and trace analyses to diagnose failures and prevent hallucinations.
- Partner with application engineers, platform teams, and business product managers to integrate agentic systems into secure production environments.
- Standardize agent development patterns, guardrails, and best practices across the organization.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional experience in software engineering, machine learning, or GenAI application development.
- Hands-on experience designing, building, and deploying LLM-powered agents or agentic workflows in production.
- Strong knowledge of prompting, tool calling, structured outputs, planning mechanisms, retrieval-augmented generation, and context management.
- Proficiency in Python, TypeScript, or a comparable production language, plus experience with agent orchestration frameworks such as LangGraph or LangChain.
- Expertise designing APIs, tool contracts, asynchronous workflows, and scalable integration patterns.
- Preferred experience with multi-agent architectures, inter-agent communication protocols such as A2A or MCP, and enterprise platforms or regulated industries.
- Preferred familiarity with model routing, prompt versioning, fine-tuning, guardrails, human-in-the-loop workflows, AWS, AWS AgentCore, identity and access management, data privacy, and secure tool execution.
Benefits
- Hybrid schedule based in South San Francisco with three days per week on campus.
- No relocation benefits are available.
- A discretionary annual bonus may be available based on individual and company performance.
- The position qualifies for Genentech benefits.
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About Genentech
Genentech discovers, develops, and commercializes biologic therapies for serious diseases across oncology, immunology, neuroscience, ophthalmology, infectious disease, and metabolism. Founded in 1976 and headquartered in South San Francisco, it operates as a member of the Roche Group, with research centered in its gRED organization and revenue driven by prescription drug sales and collaborations.