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Clera

Staff Engineer - Agentic AI

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$160K - $250K/yr

About the Role A well-funded, early-stage AI startup in the mechanical engineering software space is looking for a Staff Engineer - Agentic AI to own the core agent intelligence layer that turns ...

Spark Tek Inc

Agentic AI Engineer

San Jose, CA · On-site

Spark Tek Inc is seeking a highly skilled AI Engineer with expertise in Agentic AI models and cloud-based microservices architecture. The role involves designing, implementing, and optimizing AI ...

RocketRide Inc.

AI Developer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

About RocketRide.ai RocketRide is an SF-based AI startup pushing the boundaries of open source agentic workflows - helping developers build smarter systems that work for them. Our platform connects ...

Ingrammicro

Senior Agentic AI Engineer

Irvine, CA · On-site

$112K - $154K/yr

We are seeking a talented and motivated Agentic AI Engineer to join our AI CoE. In this hands-on role, you will be responsible for the design, development, testing, and deployment of AI agents that ...

Ingram Micro

Senior Agentic AI Engineer

Irvine, CA · On-site

$112K - $154K/yr

We are seeking a talented and motivated Agentic AI Engineer to join our AI CoE. In this hands-on role, you will be responsible for the design, development, testing, and deployment of AI agents that ...

Adobe, Inc.

Senior Agentic AI Engineer

San Jose, CA · On-site

$122K - $168K/yr

You'll work hands-on with modern AI innovations, apply industry-leading engineering practices, and ... Proven industry experience building intelligent platforms, agentic systems, or developer-facing ...

Tranzeal

Agentic AI & Claude

Santa Clara, CA · On-site

Agentic Ai & Claude Engineer Location: Santa Clara, CA We currently have an immediate requirement for engineers with expertise in developing ServiceNow Agentic AI Skills and Claude Skills. The ideal ...

Adobe

Senior Agentic AI Engineer

San Jose, CA · On-site

$122K - $168K/yr

You'llwork hands-on with modern AI innovations, apply industry-leading engineering practices, and ... Proven industry experience building intelligent platforms, agentic systems, or developer-facing ...

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Staff Engineer - Agentic AI

Clera

San Francisco, CA • On-site

$160K - $250K/yr

Full-time

Re-posted 12 days ago

Job description

About the Role
A well-funded, early-stage AI startup in the mechanical engineering software space is looking for a Staff Engineer - Agentic AI to own the core agent intelligence layer that turns engineers' intent into reliable, cost-efficient multi-step workflows across complex desktop engineering tools. This is a high-impact, senior technical leadership role reporting directly to the CTO, sitting at the intersection of applied agentic AI, user research, and product delivery.
The company serves Fortune 100 hardware engineering customers and is backed by notable investors. You'll join a small, senior team and have a direct line to executive leadership. The role is on-site in San Francisco, CA.
What You'll Do
  • Lead development of the core agent intelligence layer executing multi-step workflows across complex desktop engineering software (CAD, CAE, PLM).
  • Report to the CTO and serve as technical lead for a small team of AI engineers, a user researcher, and domain expert contractors.
  • Own the full product loop: define agent capabilities from user stories, build implementations, and benchmark against real workflows.
  • Drive agent task success rate - define the eval framework, establish baselines, and systematically improve completion metrics.
  • Set and enforce per-task token budgets; track cost per completed workflow to ensure commercial viability.
  • Build rigorous, reproducible evaluation infrastructure grounded in validated user stories (SWE-bench-level rigor applied to engineering workflows).
  • Lead user story mapping and validation through direct interviews and collaboration with domain experts.
  • Translate validated user stories into testable evals, closing the loop between research and benchmarking.
  • Own agent architecture decisions: tool-calling strategies, state management, error recovery, model routing, and context management.
  • Act as a player-coach: write production code, review designs, unblock the team, and raise engineering standards.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with integrations, product, and customers during POCs to align agent behavior with real-world usage.
What We're Looking For
Required (Dealbreakers):
  • 7+ years in software engineering, including at least 2 years building agentic LLM-based agents that act in the real world (tool-calling, multi-step workflows, failure handling, cost constraints).
  • Deep experience designing LLM application architectures: model selection, context/window management, retrieval strategies, tool-calling frameworks, and orchestration patterns.
  • Strong evaluation and benchmarking instincts for agentic systems - task completion, cost efficiency, failure mode analysis; familiarity with SWE-bench, GAIA, or τ-bench.
  • Proven track record shipping AI systems with measurable outcomes (e.g., agent task success rate, cost efficiency) - not just demos.
  • Strong Python skills and hands-on experience with LLM tooling (function calling, tool use APIs, tracing/observability tools such as Logfire or LangSmith, evaluation frameworks).
  • Experience leading a small technical team (3-6 engineers): setting direction, performing code reviews, driving architecture decisions.

Strongly Preferred:
  • Experience with desktop automation, COM, or programmatic control of applications (beyond web APIs).
  • Background in mechanical engineering, CAD/CAE, PLM, or adjacent industries.
  • Familiarity with enterprise deployment constraints - agent behavior on locked-down corporate workstations.
  • Published work or open-source contributions in agentic AI systems.
  • Experience building or contributing to public benchmarks for AI agents.
Compensation & Benefits
  • Salary: $160,000 - $250,000 USD annually, depending on experience.
  • Equity participation in an early-stage, Series A company.
  • Note: Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.
Location
  • On-site in San Francisco, CA, United States.
  • This is not a remote role.

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