Klaviyo

Staff Engineer, Applied AI (Customer Agent)

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Boston, MA, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$176k - $264k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Set technical and product direction for a core area of Customer Agent from architecture through production.
  • Build and solve complex problems involving orchestration, evaluation, guardrails, memory and context, and non-deterministic failure handling.
  • Write and ship code, review designs, make technical decisions, and debug production issues.
  • Define reusable patterns, mentor engineers through design reviews, and unblock other teams’ projects.
  • Partner with product, design, data science, and go-to-market leaders to shape the product.
  • Evaluate emerging AI technologies and bring appropriate technologies into production.

Requirements

  • Experience building, scaling, and supporting production agentic systems with orchestration, evaluations, guardrails, and non-deterministic failure handling.
  • Experience securing production agents against misuse and abuse and maintaining their reliability as usage grows.
  • Experience owning technical and product direction for a significant area and delivering systems adopted by other engineers.
  • Strong hands-on coding, architecture review, production debugging, and technical decision-making experience.
  • Experience creating reusable engineering patterns and influencing or unblocking other engineers’ work.
  • Ability to communicate complex technical trade-offs and turn ambiguous problems into actionable plans.
  • Preferred experience with multi-tenant agent platforms, 0-to-1 products or startup environments, production evaluation systems, AI observability, or human-in-the-loop workflows for LLM-powered products.

Benefits

  • Boston, Massachusetts in-office role with up to 10% coordinated travel for onboarding, client or partner work, meetings, and industry events.
  • Comprehensive health, welfare, and wellbeing benefits based on eligibility.
  • Potential annual cash bonus, equity, and sign-on payments in addition to base salary.

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About Klaviyo

1,001-5,000 employees

Klaviyo builds a subscription SaaS platform that lets e-commerce and consumer brands use first-party data to run targeted email, SMS, and push campaigns, with built-in automation and analytics. The product also includes B2C CRM features for segmentation, A/B testing, and customer lifecycle workflows. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Boston, it is a public company (NYSE: KVYO) used by brands such as Mattel and Glossier.

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