Calix

Staff/Principal Agentic AI Engineer

Calix
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4 days ago
Remote, United States or Remote, CanadaStaff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$136k - $266k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and build AI agents capable of perception, reasoning, and autonomous action.
  • Deploy and integrate agents with external enterprise systems through APIs, microservices, and cloud platforms.
  • Optimize performance, scalability, and security for multi-agent environments.
  • Collaborate with product managers and data scientists to align agent capabilities with business needs.
  • Explore generative AI, LLM orchestration, and multi-agent frameworks.
  • Build custom AI agents for enterprise workflows and support agent lifecycle management, model selection, and orchestration.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of software development experience with exposure to AI/ML projects.
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, AI/ML, or a related field.
  • Hands-on experience developing AI agents with frameworks such as Google ADK, LangChain, CrewAI, AutoGen, or similar.
  • Strong programming skills in Go, Rust, or Python; PL/SQL or Java experience is a plus.
  • Familiarity with LLM integration, prompt engineering, and multi-agent workflow orchestration.
  • Knowledge of vector databases, embeddings, and retrieval-augmented generation.
  • Understanding of generative AI, NLP, and reinforcement learning concepts.
  • Experience with LLM inference optimization and adapting small language models using LoRA, QLoRA, PEFT, adapters, prefix tuning, or DoRA.
  • Understanding of instruction tuning, supervised fine-tuning, and preference alignment methods including DPO and RLHF.
  • Preferred experience building enterprise AI agents, working with AI profiles and agent lifecycle management, and developing multi-agent collaboration or autonomous decision-making systems.

Benefits

  • Remote work anywhere in the US or Canada.
  • Competitive benefits and vacation package.
  • Opportunity to work on AI projects impacting millions of users in telecom and cloud solutions.
  • Collaborative culture with continuous learning and growth.
Calix

About Calix

1,001-5,000 employees

Calix is an AI platform company that enables service providers to transform their operations and accelerate delivery of differentiated experiences—so they can compete and win in the markets and communities they serve. Through the AI-native Calix One platform, service providers can securely and privately activate agentic-AI alongside their human teams to acquire new subscribers, grow existing subscriber revenue, and build loyalty across residential, business, municipal, and MDU markets. More than 1,200 customers of all sizes leverage the Calix One platform, which has evolved over 15 years at an investment of more than $2 billion. Calix innovation cycles are underpinned by a strong financial balance sheet and a people‑first culture that routinely earns broad industry recognition—winning 81 culture and innovation awards since 2025 alone, as well as Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For® in 2026.

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