Liberate

Liberate

Principal AI Agent Engineer

San Francisco and Boston · Principal

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 89 days ago
Data ScienceLLMsAgentic AILeadership

About the role

  • As a Principal AI Agent Engineer, you define what "great" looks like for agent engineering at Liberate.
  • You operate across customers, teams, and initiatives.
  • You are trusted with the hardest problems, the messiest launches, and the highest-risk decisions.

Responsibilities

  • Own the most complex and high-risk customer launches and recoveries
  • Define standards for agent design, prompts, evals, monitoring, and launch readiness
  • Identify systemic gaps and drive solutions that reduce repeat incidents and toil
  • Partner closely with Platform, Data Science, and Product to shape agent strategy
  • Design reusable frameworks that turn customer work into durable platform leverage
  • Lead by example in reviews, incidents, retros, and hard tradeoff decisions
  • Deep understanding of system design, failure modes, and operational excellence
  • Liberate builds AI agents to automate manual tasks for the $2.7T insurance industry.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience, including senior technical leadership
  • Proven track record of owning large, ambiguous systems in production
  • Ability to set standards and influence without formal authority

Nice to have

  • Experience designing or scaling agentic or LLM-powered platforms
  • Experience in regulated, high-stakes, or customer-facing systems
  • Prior Staff/Principal/Distinguished-level experience at a strong engineering org

Benefits

  • Our long-term vision is to build reasoning agents capable of handling the entire spectrum of insurance carrier and broker operations.

Company info

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