Senior Software Engineer, Agent Platform (AI for the Planet)
The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence4 days ago
Base Salary
$147k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and evolve stable, documented platform APIs for agent registration, authentication, secrets, deployment, runtime, events, discovery, and evaluation.
- Build observability capabilities including logs, conversation history, execution traces, metrics, and failure reporting.
- Develop evaluation tools for defining and running evaluations, comparing versions, tracking quality, and identifying regressions.
- Build and operate identity, authorization, runtime orchestration, deployment, event-routing, and agent-registry services.
- Build and operate production AI agents, including prompt and tool design, quality and cost tuning, and ongoing reliability.
- Turn recurring customer-work patterns into platform features and own the end-to-end developer experience through SDKs, CLI tools, documentation, examples, and local development workflows.
- Collaborate with front-end, product, research, partnerships, and customers, including regular user engagement and occasional travel.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Experience spanning web services, distributed systems, data pipelines, and cloud tooling.
- Track record of shipping products to external users and owning them in production.
- Strong opinions about API design with a preference for simple designs over clever ones.
- Willingness to write and maintain documentation as part of the engineering work.
- Fluency with modern AI tools and ability to adapt to evolving LLMs and agent architectures.
- Clear technical communication with engineers and non-engineers.
- Preferred experience includes developer platforms, SDKs, public APIs, production LLM agents, tool use, orchestration, sandboxing, cost and latency tuning, evaluation or experimentation systems, growth-stage companies, and public technical work.
Benefits
- Seattle office-based work with on-site requirements varying by team; the team works in the office most days.
- Medical, dental, vision, employee assistance, health savings, healthcare reimbursement, and flexible spending account plans.
- 401(k) plan, annual bonuses, and participation in a long-term incentive plan.
- $125 per month for commuting or internet expenses and $200 per month for fitness and wellbeing expenses.
- Up to 10 sick days, 7 personal days, 20 vacation days, 12 paid holidays, and family leave.
- Learning opportunities including weekly Ai2 Academy lectures and guest talks, along with a stated commitment to work-life balance.
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