Staff Engineer, Agentic

Inflection AI
Palo Alto
Workplace: OnsiteFull time350,000 - 500,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 10-15 yearsSkills: ["Python","PostgreSQL","Redis","AWS","GCP","Azure","Kubernetes","Containers","LLM","RAG","CI/CD","Observability"]

Senior backend engineer responsible for designing and maintaining scalable systems powering agentic workflows and conversation pipelines. Collaborates with research, product, and infrastructure teams to deliver reliable AI features at scale, focusing on low latency, cost efficiency, and production readiness across orchestration, memory, retrieval, and tool integrations.

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Inflection AI
Inflection AI
4 months ago

Staff Engineer, Agentic

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Job Summary

Senior backend engineer responsible for designing and maintaining scalable systems powering agentic workflows and conversation pipelines. Collaborates with research, product, and infrastructure teams to deliver reliable AI features at scale, focusing on low latency, cost efficiency, and production readiness across orchestration, memory, retrieval, and tool integrations.
Location: Palo Alto
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design and build backend systems that power agentic workflows in production: orchestration, memory, retrieval, and tool integrations.
  • •Operate high-availability inference and conversation pipelines, optimizing for latency, cost, and quality.
  • •Build internal platform pieces: service templates, CI/CD, observability, evaluation harnesses, and rollout tooling to accelerate engineering velocity.
  • •Partner with applied researchers and frontend engineers to design and iterate on user-facing features.
  • •Drive features from prototype to production with measurable user impact, ensuring reliability and performance at scale.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: 350,000 - 500,000 annually
Perks:Health Insurance401kPaid LeaveParental LeaveVisa Support

Key Requirements

  • •10-15 years of backend engineering experience shipping production systems in cloud environments.
Experience:10-15 yearsArtificial intelligenceAIConversational AI
Skills:PythonPostgreSQLRedisAWSGCPAzureKubernetesContainersLLMRAGCI/CDObservability
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PythonPostgreSQLRedisAWSGCPAzureKubernetesDockerCI/CDObservabilityRAGOpenAI

Company Brief

Inflection AI
Develops conversational AI and personal-assistant technologies, including the Pi chatbot, to enable more natural human–computer interaction and simplify access to information and productivity tools.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Early Stage Startup
Headquarters: Palo Alto, United States
Founded: 2022
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