SB Energy

SB Energy

Senior AI Engineer – LLM / Agents

California · Senior · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$160k-$190kDetected 21 days ago
PythonDatabricksAzureCloud PlatformsCI/CDPlatform EngineeringMachine LearningData EngineeringData ScienceLLMsAgentic AILeadershipCollaborationMentoringMicrosoft OfficeSharePoint

About the role

  • Do you want to work with high caliber professionals in a dynamic and growing company?
  • Are you entrepreneurial, hard-working, and collegial?
  • Join us at SB Energy, a leading company backed by SoftBank and Ares pairing cutting-edge innovation with best-in-class execution.

Responsibilities

  • Establish reusable workflow patterns for agent planning, tool calling, data retrieval, exception handling, fallback behavior, escalation, and production support.
  • Create standards for skill design, prompt structure, tool descriptions, tool schemas, API response formats, source citation behavior, structured outputs, and workflow handoffs.
  • Build evaluation frameworks for agent workflows, including gold datasets, regression tests, numerical reconciliation checks, rubric-based grading, tool-call correctness checks, and human feedback loops.
  • Lead the design of observability for agents and tools, including workflow logs, cost, latency, token usage, tool success rate, bad-answer rate, eval pass rate, user acceptance, and incident tracking.
  • Partner with domain Forward Deployed Engineers to convert high-value workflows into measurable agent systems with explicit inputs, outputs, owners, permissions, evals, runbooks, release gates, and continuous improvement loops.
  • Partner with the Enterprise Systems and Agent Platform role on MCP servers, connector reliability, RBAC, secrets, audit logging, deployment patterns, API governance, and production platform readiness.
  • Review agent workflow designs before production release and define go/no-go criteria for quality, safety, reliability, cost, latency, security, and operational support.
  • Create reusable templates for agent specifications, skill specifications, eval protocols, workflow scorecards, incident reviews, production readiness checklists, and workflow-level success metrics.
  • Mentor FDEs, analysts, engineers, and implementation partners on eval-driven development, tool-based workflow design, observable agent operations, and production-quality AI systems.
  • Experience designing, building, or governing agentic AI systems, LLM applications, tool-calling workflows, evaluation systems, observability systems, or production AI platforms.

Requirements

  • Strong understanding of modern LLM workflow design, including prompts, skills, tools, retrieval, structured outputs, APIs, orchestration, context management, token economics, and human-in-the-loop controls.
  • Experience with Python, APIs, data pipelines, cloud platforms, CI/CD, logging and monitoring systems, analytics workflows, and enterprise integrations.

Nice to have

  • Master's degree in Computer Science, AI/ML, Data Systems, Software Engineering, or a related field preferred.
  • Experience with OpenAI, ChatGPT Enterprise, Responses API-style workflows, MCP, Azure, Databricks, SharePoint, Teams, Outlook, Monday.com, or enterprise connectors preferred.
  • Energy, renewable infrastructure, power markets, asset operations, storage optimization, project development, or data center experience is a plus.

Compensation

  • The pay range mentioned above is a guideline.

Benefits

  • In addition to competitive base pay, total compensation may include a discretionary annual bonus and a market leading comprehensive health and wellness benefits package.
  • Our Health & Wellness Benefits
  • At SB Energy, we invest in our people and their families with benefits designed for flexibility, support, and peace of mind.
  • 100% Company-Paid Medical, Dental & Vision (for employees and dependents)
  • Generous Paid Time Off + 11 Paid Holidays
  • 12 Weeks Paid Parental Leave
  • Life, AD&D & Long-Term Disability Coverage
  • Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) for Medical, Dependent Care, Transit & Parking (with company contributions)
  • Monthly Reimbursement for Phone, Internet & Data
  • Flexible Work Arrangements & Hybrid Office Setup Benefits

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