Applied AI Engineer, Agentic Systems & Identity
Skylo Technologies16 hours ago
Base Salary
$170k - $185k/yr
Responsibilities
- Explore applications of agentic AI across telecommunications, identity, service discovery, and network services.
- Translate ambiguous business opportunities into technical experiments, proof-of-concepts, and working prototypes.
- Design and build agentic AI systems using LLM orchestration, tool integrations, and emerging agent communication protocols.
- Apply authentication, authorization, OAuth, SSO, and zero-trust architecture concepts to agent ecosystems.
- Develop APIs, services, and demonstrations to validate technical approaches.
- Evaluate trade-offs across AI agents, identity infrastructure, cloud services, and network systems.
- Collaborate with product and engineering leaders on feasibility, commercial relevance, and product opportunities.
- Establish architectural patterns and technical foundations for promising prototypes.
Requirements
- Strong hands-on software engineering experience with the ability to independently design and build working systems.
- Experience building applications with LLMs, agentic frameworks, tool calling, or multi-agent architectures.
- Familiarity with identity, authentication, authorization, service discovery, or distributed systems.
- Ability to learn and apply emerging protocols such as MCP and A2A.
- Experience rapidly developing prototypes, proof-of-concepts, or early-stage products.
- Solid backend development skills in Python, Go, Java, or TypeScript.
- Understanding of APIs, cloud infrastructure, and modern software architectures.
- Strong technical judgment, communication skills, and comfort working with ambiguous problems and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Preferred experience with agent identity, verifiable credentials, decentralized identifiers, agent registries, enterprise identity, IAM, SSO, OAuth, or zero-trust security.
- Preferred background in telecom, 5G core, NTN, network APIs, IoT, network equipment, early-stage startups, research labs, or advanced technology teams.
- Preferred contributions to open-source projects involving AI agents, identity, or agent protocols.
- Preferred experience taking experimental projects from concept through customer or partner validation.
- An advanced degree in AI, computer science, networking, or a related field is preferred.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation package with a stock option-based equity program.
- Medical, dental, vision, retirement, wellness, and education reimbursement benefits.
- Generous paid time off, holidays, and the opportunity to temporarily work abroad.
- Hybrid role requiring regular in-office presence in Mountain View, California.
- Opportunity to work on the world's first commercial live direct-to-device satellite network with a global software, hardware, telecom, satellite, and network virtualization team.
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About Skylo Technologies
Skylo Technologies provides a Non-Terrestrial Network service that enables smartphones and IoT devices to connect directly over existing satellites, managed by its 3GPP standards-based, cloud-native NTN vRAN and core. It partners with satellite operators, mobile carriers, and device makers to deliver subscription connectivity and platform services for outdoor users and industrial workflows. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Mountain View, it targets agriculture, maritime, logistics, mining, automotive, and consumer markets.