C3 AI
Senior Software Engineer, Agentic AI Platform
Redwood City, California, United States · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$160k-$219kDetected 5 days ago
PythonJavaData StructuresAlgorithmsPlatform EngineeringMachine LearningLLMsAgentic AI5G/LTE
About the role
- C3 AI (NYSE: AI), is the Enterprise AI application software company.
Responsibilities
- Architect and build the systems, tools, and frameworks that let data scientists and developers create, deploy, and operate agentic AI applications on the C3 Agentic AI Platform - applying sound design principles to ground agents in governed enterprise data and run them on reliable, scalable runtimes and end-to-end pipelines in a distributed system.
- Advance agent accuracy: build the evaluations, grounding, and feedback loops that measure and improve correctness, reduce hallucination, and track override rates in production.
- Drive agent performance: optimize latency, throughput, scalability, and inference cost across the platform.
- Strengthen agent safety: implement inherited permissions, guardrails, human-approval and escalation paths, auditability, and rollback so that autonomy stays bounded and is earned one workflow at a time.
- Collaborate with and support data scientists to understand the utility of the C3 Agentic AI Platform and define new requirements.
- Work with product owners to define and lead the development of longer-term platform capabilities.
- build the evaluations, grounding, and feedback loops that measure and improve correctness, reduce hallucination, and track override rates in production.
- optimize latency, throughput, scalability, and inference cost across the platform.
Requirements
- Advanced degree in computer science, math, or a similar field.
- Thorough knowledge of data structures, algorithms, profiling/optimization, and Object-Oriented and Functional Programming.
- High proficiency with agentic coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor) - going beyond individual tool use to orchestrate engineering workflows across multiple agents working in parallel.
- A minimum of 5 years of work experience in a fast-paced software company.
- Agent accuracy, performance, and safety are the product itself - not compliance cleanup - and everything you build must be measurable, explainable, and reliable in production.
- This is production AI where wrong actions have real consequences, so the bar is accuracy, performance, and safety you can measure.
- The ideal candidate has a strong computer science and mathematics background and has built scalable software systems that ran in production.
- Strong command of software architecture and design principles, with a track record of designing scalable, reliable, and maintainable systems and making architectural trade-offs deliberately.
- Strong programming skills in Java, Python, and JavaScript.
- High proficiency with agentic coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor) - going beyond individual tool use to orchestrate engineering workflows across multiple agents working in parallel. You decompose work, delegate to and coordinate several coding agents at once, and review their output with the judgment to catch subtle bugs, security issues, and architectural drift, all while collaborating closely with teammates and keeping code correct, secure, and maintainable.
- In-depth understanding of machine learning algorithms
- Proven track record of applying machine learning or AI in a production system.
- Demonstrated end-to-end ownership of projects, including making key design decisions and understanding the tradeoffs.
- C3 AI provides excellent benefits, a competitive compensation package and generous equity plan.
- California Base Pay Range
- $160,000 - $219,000 USD
- C3 AI is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of any legally protected characteristics, including disabled and veteran status.
Nice to have
- familiarity with LLMs and AI agent architectures is a strong plus.
Compensation
- C3 AI provides excellent benefits, a competitive compensation package and generous equity plan.
Benefits
- In-depth understanding of machine learning algorithms; familiarity with LLMs and AI agent architectures is a strong plus.
Company info
- AI), is the Enterprise AI application software company.
- C3 AI delivers a family of fully integrated products including the C3 Agentic AI Platform, an end-to-end platform for developing, deploying, and operating enterprise AI applications, C3 AI applications, a portfolio of industry-specific SaaS enterprise AI applications that enable the digital transformation of organizations globally, and C3 Generative AI, a suite of domain-specific generative AI offerings for the enterprise.
- C3 AI is building the platform that makes autonomous intelligence reliable in the real world.
This listing is sourced directly from C3 AI's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.