Staff Engineer, Agentic

About the Company

Inflection AI is a Public Benefit Corporation empowering people with human-centered, emotionally intelligent AI. Inflection AI created Pi, the world’s first emotionally intelligent AI, to help people work through decisions, emotions, and challenges.

Responsibilities

• Design and build backend systems that power agentic workflows in production including orchestration, memory, retrieval, and tool integrations
• Operate high-availability inference and conversation pipelines, optimizing for latency, cost, and quality
• Build internal platform pieces such as service templates, CI/CD, observability, evaluation harnesses, and rollout tooling
• 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

Requirements

• 10-15 years of backend engineering experience shipping production systems in cloud environments
• Demonstrated experience building, shipping, and operating agentic AI systems in production
• Strong production experience with Python, Postgres, Redis, and major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Experience with containers and Kubernetes
• Practical experience with LLM application patterns like RAG, tool use, and evaluation loops
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a related field

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with agent orchestration frameworks like LangGraph, LlamaIndex, or OpenAI/Anthropic Agent SDKs
• Experience with evaluation tooling such as LangSmith or Braintrust
• Background in streaming, queueing, or vector data infrastructure at scale
• Past on-call ownership of customer-facing services with strict SLOs
• Contributions to open-source agent or LLM tooling

Benefits

• Robust medical, dental and vision options
• 401k matching program
• Flexible Time Off, 10 paid holidays, and 5 days sick leave
• Parental, Medical and Family care leave
• Generous cell-phone, wellness and office set up stipends
• Support of country-specific visa needs for international employees living in the Bay Area