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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