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Nooks

Agent Engineer, Agent Studio

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$215K - $300K/yr

As an Agent Engineer, you'll implement those agents with customers and iterate until they see impact on their bottom line. What you'll do * Own the deployment outcome. GM-level responsibility for ...

Wisq, Inc.

Agent Engineer

Redwood City, CA · On-site

$90 - $120/hr

We're seeking an Agent Engineer to work directly with our customers to implement, configure, and optimize Wisq for their unique HR environments. This role combines deep technical expertise with ...

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Duckie

AI Agent Engineer

Santa Rosa, CA · On-site

$16.50 - $21.75/hr

The Role As our AI Agent Engineer, you'll be the technical owner of getting Duckie live and performing inside our customers' businesses. You'll embed with customers, understand their support ...

Apple

ML Agent Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

We're seeking research engineers to build systems for breakthrough innovations in AI agents, reinforcement learning, and simulation environments. You will design and implement high-quality agent ...

Duckie

AI Agent Engineer

Fremont, CA · On-site

$16.50 - $22/hr

The Role As our AI Agent Engineer, you'll be the technical owner of getting Duckie live and performing inside our customers' businesses. You'll embed with customers, understand their support ...

Duckie

AI Agent Engineer

Sonoma, CA · On-site

$16.75 - $22.50/hr

The Role As our AI Agent Engineer, you'll be the technical owner of getting Duckie live and performing inside our customers' businesses. You'll embed with customers, understand their support ...

Duckie

AI Agent Engineer

San Mateo, CA · On-site

$17 - $22.75/hr

The Role As our AI Agent Engineer, you'll be the technical owner of getting Duckie live and performing inside our customers' businesses. You'll embed with customers, understand their support ...

Duckie

AI Agent Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$17.75 - $23.50/hr

The Role As our AI Agent Engineer, you'll be the technical owner of getting Duckie live and performing inside our customers' businesses. You'll embed with customers, understand their support ...

Duckie

AI Agent Engineer

Alameda, CA · On-site

$17.50 - $23.25/hr

The Role As our AI Agent Engineer, you'll be the technical owner of getting Duckie live and performing inside our customers' businesses. You'll embed with customers, understand their support ...

Apple

ML Agent Engineer

Bodega Bay, CA · On-site

$142K - $263K/yr

We're seeking research engineers to build systems for breakthrough innovations in AI agents, reinforcement learning, and simulation environments. You will design and implement high-quality agent ...

Duckie

AI Agent Engineer

Santa Clara, CA · On-site

$17.50 - $23.25/hr

The Role As our AI Agent Engineer, you'll be the technical owner of getting Duckie live and performing inside our customers' businesses. You'll embed with customers, understand their support ...

Duckie

AI Agent Engineer

San Jose, CA · On-site

$17.50 - $23.50/hr

The Role As our AI Agent Engineer, you'll be the technical owner of getting Duckie live and performing inside our customers' businesses. You'll embed with customers, understand their support ...

Duckie

AI Agent Engineer

Hayward, CA · On-site

$17.25 - $23/hr

The Role As our AI Agent Engineer, you'll be the technical owner of getting Duckie live and performing inside our customers' businesses. You'll embed with customers, understand their support ...

Nvidia

Autonomous Agent Engineer

Santa Clara, CA · On-site

The team designs and ships SDKs, CLIs, and developer tooling that turn complex sandboxing into a straightforward experience for agent builders and users across the company. Today "sandbox" means ...

Nvidia

Autonomous Agent Engineer

Santa Clara, CA · On-site

The team designs and ships SDKs, CLIs, and developer tooling that turn complex sandboxing into a straightforward experience for agent builders and users across the company. Today "sandbox" means ...

Jobzhr

AI Agent Engineer

Cupertino, CA · On-site

$180 - $240/hr

Optimize prompts, memory systems, retrieval pipelines, and agent architectures * Collaborate with product, engineering, and design teams to translate real-world problems into AI-driven solutions

Jobzhr

AI Software Engineer

Palo Alto, CA · On-site

$140 - $190/hr

Agent Engineer AI Software Engineer Location: Palo Alto CA- Locals only Years of Experience (Total/Relevant): Job Summary: We are seeking an Agent Engineer to help build the next generation of AI ...

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As of Sep 4, 2026, the average hourly pay for agent engineer in California is $16.92, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $14.23 and $18.99 per hour, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What is the difference between Agent Engineer vs Network Engineer?

AspectAgent EngineerNetwork Engineer
Required CredentialsBachelor's in Computer Science or related, certifications like CCNA, CompTIA Network+Bachelor's in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related, certifications like CCNA, CCNP
Work EnvironmentDeveloping, testing, and maintaining agent software, often in software development teamsDesigning, implementing, and managing network infrastructure, often in IT or telecom environments
Employer & Industry UsageTech companies, software firms, cloud service providersTelecom, IT services, large enterprises with complex networks

Agent Engineers focus on developing and maintaining software agents that facilitate automation and communication within systems, while Network Engineers design and manage network infrastructure. Both roles require technical certifications and often work in tech-driven environments, but their core responsibilities differ significantly.

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Agent Engineer, Agent Studio

Nooks

San Francisco, CA • On-site

$215K - $300K/yr

Full-time

Re-posted 20 days ago

Job description

About Nooks.ai:
Nooks is an applied AI lab building the Agent Workspace for GTM. We design AI agents that operate across the full sales action set, from account strategy to prospect research and outreach. Building 0→1 has never been easier, but selling at the speed of the market remains the last frontier for AI. Our mission is to 10x every seller by automating the busywork so they can focus on what humans do best: closing deals.
Today, over 1,500 customers run on Nooks, including Notion, HubSpot, Cursor, and Rippling. We've raised $70M+ from top VCs like Kleiner Perkins, which made its first sales-tech investment in over a decade with us. Since then, we've tripled ARR each year for 3 years running and grown a high-caliber team turning the art of sales into a scalable science.
About the Role
Sales software was built for humans. But we believe most sales work will be done by agents within the next two years. Agent Studio is our bet to enable this: AI that does 90% of the non-calling, non-creative work an SDR team does today fully autonomously. We're piloting with a small set of design partners. As an Agent Engineer, you'll implement those agents with customers and iterate until they see impact on their bottom line.
What you'll do
  • Own the deployment outcome. GM-level responsibility for your customers' revenue numbers. We're aiming to 5x their meetings booked within a 1 month trial.
  • Build agents across the breadth of a sales rep's workday. Account strategy, prospecting, outbound emails, LinkedIn DMs, gifting, call prep, followups. Each one requires going deep on how the rep actually works.
  • Fully automate nuanced work on the SDR's behalf. These agents should learn over time, calibrate trust with the user, and have clear evals that prove they work.
  • Embed into customers. Our customers have shared Slack channels with our engineers; you'll be on calls with users one day and shipping agent improvements back to them the next.
You might be a strong fit if:
  • 3+ years of engineering experience, ideally including time as a technical founder, founding engineer, or forward-deployed engineer at a place with a high bar.
  • Production experience with AI agents. For example, you've shipped a prompt or tool change in response to a specific user complaint that same week.
  • Strong opinions, held loosely, about which insights from the field belong in the platform vs as customer-facing modifiers.
  • High agency. Comfortable owning an outcome without a clear playbook.
  • Strong communication. You can explain the agent to a sales team, the team's needs to engineering, and the deployment status to leadership.
  • Based in San Francisco, excited to be in-office 3+ days per week.
At Nooks You'll Enjoy
  • A world-class team. Around 40 engineers, mostly former founders or founding engineers and veteran builders from places like Applied Intuition, Scale, Airtable, Citadel, and Jane Street. Thirteen Olympiad medals across the team.
  • A founder seat in shape. GM-level ownership of a 0-to-1 product line. The skills you build here are the ones you need to start a company next.
  • Top-of-market compensation.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Nooks is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workforce. We believe in providing equal employment opportunities to all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Nooks does not discriminate in hiring, promotion, compensation, or any other employment practices, and we are committed to ensuring a workplace that is free from discrimination, harassment, and retaliation. We encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply and join our team.

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