Inflection AI

Inflection AI

Staff Engineer, Agentic

Palo Alto, California, United States · Staff+

Sponsorship not specified$10k-$15kDetected 19 days ago
PythonPostgreSQLRedisAWSGCPAzureCI/CDLLMsRAGAgentic AILangGraphAI OrchestrationResearch

About the role

  • Your work will directly impact both the pace of product development and the stability of our production systems.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build backend systems that power agentic workflows in production: orchestration, memory, retrieval, and tool integrations.
  • Build internal platform pieces service templates, CI/CD, observability, evaluation harnesses, and rollout tooling that compound 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
  • Demonstrated experience building, shipping, and operating agentic AI systems in production environments with real user impact not just prototypes.
  • Strong sense of ownership, with the ability to independently drive systems to production and operate them reliably
  • We are focused on building a positive, safe, inclusive and inspiring place to work.
  • Support of country-specific visa needs for international employees living in the Bay Area

Requirements

  • 10-15 years of backend engineering experience shipping production systems in cloud environments.
  • Strong production experience with Python, Postgres, Redis, and at least one major cloud (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including containers and Kubernetes.
  • Practical experience with LLM application patterns: RAG, tool use, evaluation loops, and the latency/cost/quality tradeoffs that come with them.
  • Have a bachelor's degree or equivalent in a related field to the offered position requirements
  • Experience with agent orchestration frameworks (LangGraph, LlamaIndex, OpenAI/Anthropic Agent SDKs, or equivalent in-house systems) and evaluation tooling (LangSmith, Braintrust, or similar).

Compensation

  • For this role, Inflection AI estimates a starting annual base salary to fall within the range of $350,000 to $500,000 depending on a candidate's qualifications and level of experience.

Benefits

  • Our benefits include:
  • Robust medical, dental and vision options with employer contributions for HSA, FSA and DFSA
  • Flexible Time Off, 10 paid holidays, 5 days sick leave
  • Parental, Medical and Family care leave
  • Generous cell-phone, wellness and office set up stipends

Visa & Work Authorization

  • Support of country-specific visa needs for international employees living in the Bay Area

This listing is sourced directly from Inflection AI's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.