Lead AI Native Engineer

The role

The Lead AI Native Engineer will build vertical agents and a shared agent foundation. You will turn frontier models into systems for strategy and engineering through hands-on technical leadership.

What you will do

• Build vertical agents for high-value workflows from problem definition through production use.
• Establish the agent foundation including primitives for models, tools, orchestration, and memory.
• Create the context layer by connecting agents to data through APIs, pipelines, and integrations.
• Own evaluation and reliability through benchmarks, regression tests, and monitoring.
• Advance frontier agent usage by turning model capabilities into maintainable systems.
• Support strategic initiatives by applying agents to market and customer intelligence.
• Provide technical leadership by setting architecture and engineering standards.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years in software engineering, applied AI, ML systems, or a related field
• Experience at a frontier AI lab, leading AI company, or comparable team
• Track record shipping production agentic systems
• Deep experience with frontier model APIs, tool use, orchestration, context engineering, retrieval, memory, and multi-step workflows
• Experience building evaluations, regression tests, observability, and production failure-analysis loops for AI systems
• Exceptional fluency with AI-native development workflows using Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, agent SDKs, or equivalent systems
• Strong product judgment

Nice to have

• Experience with post-training, model evaluation, inference, or research infrastructure at a frontier lab or model company
• Experience with MCP infrastructure, developer platforms, knowledge graphs, RAG, or secure enterprise integrations
• Background in robotics, autonomous systems, industrial automation, or another technically complex physical-world domain

Benefits

• Competitive stock options/equity programs
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) plan
• Visa sponsorship and green card support for qualified candidates
• Lunches and dinners
• A fully stocked kitchen
• Regular team-building events

About the company

RoboForce is an AI robotics company developing Physical AI–powered Robo-Labor for dull, dirty, and dangerous work. The company's robots are engineered for demanding industrial environments.