2 months ago
Base Salary
$180k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build agent architectures covering tool orchestration, planning, memory, multi-step reasoning, and error recovery.
- Ship production-quality agent features with ownership from design through deployment.
- Handle partial schemas, inconsistent metadata, mixed data formats, and unreliable source systems in production workflows.
- Implement reliability patterns such as structured error handling, fallback chains, observability, and guardrails.
- Build evaluation suites to identify hallucinations, regressions, and grounding gaps before release.
- Collaborate with AI Research Engineering to integrate grounding and retrieval into agent workflows.
- Drive technical standards for agent development through implementation and improve task completion, accuracy, and time-to-value.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building AI/ML systems, including at least 1 year shipping agentic or LLM-powered systems in production.
- Direct experience working at an AI startup or AI-focused product team; consulting, integration, and agency experience does not satisfy this preference.
- Hands-on experience with agent frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, Semantic Kernel, or custom frameworks.
- Production experience with RAG pipelines, including chunking strategies, vector databases, embedding models, and reranking.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals in testing, observability, code review discipline, and frequent iterative delivery.
- Experience with enterprise data systems such as SQL engines, data catalogs, or schema metadata is preferred.
- Experience building evaluation and observability pipelines for agentic systems is preferred.
- Familiarity with JVM-based systems or polyglot development environments is preferred.
- Contributions to open-source agent frameworks or tooling are preferred.
- Experience with function calling, tool-use patterns, and context-window management is preferred.
- Ability to travel approximately 25% in person for onboarding, offsites, customer engagements, and company events.
Benefits
- Salary range of $180,000—$225,000 USD, potentially inclusive of variable compensation.
- Equity packages in the form of ISOs.
- Flexible paid time off.
- Comprehensive benefits and a competitive Total Rewards program.
- Approximately 25% in-person travel, with actual expectations varying by role and business needs.
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About Starburst
Starburst builds an enterprise data platform that lets teams query and govern distributed data across clouds and on‑prem systems without copying it, powered by Trino and Apache Iceberg. It sells commercial Trino-based software and a managed cloud service for federated SQL, data lakehouse analytics, and governance. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Boston, the privately held company serves global enterprises; customers include Comcast and Citigroup.