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inflectionai

Aug 06

Principal Engineer, Agentic AI Systems

Onsite · Palo Alto, California, United States Palo Alto, California, United States

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You will lead the architecture and technical direction of AI systems in Palo Alto. This role involves building production AI agents and collaborating with various teams to create effective AI-native features.

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Job description

You will lead the architecture and technical direction of AI systems in Palo Alto. This role involves building production AI agents and collaborating with various teams to create effective AI-native features.

Details

  • Palo Alto, California, United States, work from office
  • $400,000.00 to $550,000.00 annual salary
  • 10+ years of engineering experience, including 3+ years at staff/principal level
  • Strong Python or TypeScript experience

The work

  • Build production AI agents that can plan, retrieve context, and execute complex workflows.
  • Design agent architectures for task decomposition and safe execution.
  • Create evaluation and observability systems for multi-step task success.
  • Integrate agents with APIs, databases, and user-facing workflows.