
Staff Full-Stack Engineer, AI Engineering
TWG Global AI14 days ago
Santa Monica, CA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$290k - $300k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate agent-based software with tools, memory, and stateful workflows using LangGraph or equivalent frameworks.
- Build evaluation pipelines for LLM and agent quality, including offline evaluations, regression tests, tool-call and trajectory scoring, dashboards, and supporting tooling.
- Lead React frontend development with component architecture, state management, and performance optimization.
- Design and maintain backend services, REST APIs, and data models using Java, Spring Boot, and Python.
- Contribute to system design for multi-tenant infrastructure, authentication, and asynchronous messaging.
- Support iOS features involving UI, networking, push notifications, and release management.
- Drive code quality, testing discipline, engineering standards, code reviews, and design feedback.
- Mentor junior engineers and collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience building production software at scale.
- Hands-on experience building and shipping real LLM and agent applications, including tool interfaces, multi-step workflows, agent-loop failure handling, and production systems.
- Direct experience building agent evaluation systems with golden datasets, offline evaluations, tool-call and trajectory scoring, and evaluation-driven prompt, model, and architecture improvements.
- Strong React skills, including state management, component design, and performance optimization.
- Strong Java and Spring Boot skills with working proficiency in Python.
- Experience with relational database design, preferably PostgreSQL.
- Familiarity with distributed systems, asynchronous messaging, and modern service architecture.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure on AWS, GCP, or Azure and CI/CD.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- Preferred: LangGraph or comparable orchestration experience; iOS development with Swift, SwiftUI, App Store releases, and APNs; multi-provider LLM work with Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, or xAI; MCP servers or clients; Redis Streams or similar messaging; multi-tenant SaaS, RBAC, and authentication; on-device ML or audio pipelines; and Palantir Foundry experience.
Benefits
- Onsite position preferred in Santa Monica, California.
- Relocation support may be provided to the right candidate.
- Work on real-world AI applications with high-impact clients.
- Collaborate with data scientists, engineers, and product leaders in a flat, high-trust organization with high autonomy.
- Performance-based incentives and medical, financial, and other benefits are provided.