Agentic AI Engineer
Eigen Labs5 months ago
Base Salary
$187k - $253k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build agent runtimes and orchestration systems covering planning, tool use, memory, and coordination.
- Improve agent reliability through retries, failure handling, and state management.
- Make agents observable through tracing, debugging, and evaluation systems.
- Optimize agent execution for cost and performance.
- Build production systems that people can depend on rather than demonstrations.
- Integrate LLMs, APIs, and external data into coherent working systems.
- Define how developers build, debug, and extend agent behavior.
- Own substantial parts of the system and move quickly from ideas to working products.
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience shipping real systems that people depend on.
- Experience turning ambiguous problems into working products and understanding production failure modes, tradeoffs, and reliability.
- Experience building or deeply exploring agent systems, LLM pipelines, or automation beyond simple demos.
- Strong backend or systems experience in distributed systems, APIs, or infrastructure.
- Proficiency in at least one core language such as Python, Go, TypeScript, or Rust.
- Experience with reliability patterns including state management, retries, and observability.
- Ability to work across the stack when needed.
- Experience with agent frameworks such as LangChain, AutoGen, CrewAI, or custom systems is preferred.
- Experience with multi-agent or orchestration systems is preferred.
- Familiarity with LLM evaluation, prompting, or performance tuning is preferred.
- Experience with workflow engines such as Temporal, Airflow, or Dagster is preferred.
- Experience building developer platforms, SDKs, or internal tools is preferred.
- Exposure to retrieval systems, vector databases, or memory architectures is preferred.
- Interest in crypto, distributed systems, or verifiable compute is preferred.
Benefits
- Full-time remote-friendly role with preference for U.S. time zones and collaboration with the Seattle-based team.
- Competitive salary and non-cash compensation including tokens and equity.
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
- Remote work setup stipend.
- Flexible hours and supportive remote environment.
- Flexible time off.
- 401(k) retirement plan with company match.
- Monthly wellness benefit.
- Yearly off-sites.
- Paid parental leave.
- Benefits for hires outside the U.S. through an EOR depend on country requirements and EOR offerings.
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About Eigen Labs
Eigen Labs is an AI research lab building tools for human and agent coordination that preserve and maximize individual agency in the PostAGI era. We’re a remote-friendly team with hubs in Seattle, San Francisco and NYC, founded by Sreeram Kannan, Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Washington. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, collaborative debate, ownership, integrity, and respect. Our mission: To build technologies for human-agent coordination.