Inflection AI
Staff Engineer, Agentic
Palo Alto, California, United States · Staff+
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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
- 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
Company info
- Employee Pay Disclosures At Inflection AI, we aim to attract and retain the best employees and compensate them in a way that appropriately and fairly values their individual contributions to the company.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Support of country-specific visa needs for international employees living in the Bay Area
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