AI Engineer, Agent Platform

The role

You will build the agent runtime that orchestrates context assembly, tool invocation, model routing, and workflow tracking. You will also design eval and observability harnesses and own the context engineering layer for agentic products.

What you will do

• Build the agent runtime that orchestrates context assembly, tool invocation, model routing, and workflow tracking
• Design the eval and observability harness
• Own the context engineering layer including retrieval, ranking, compression, and memory
• Integrate and benchmark new foundation models
• Build user-facing surfaces such as playgrounds, agent traces, and control panels
• Collaborate closely with product to take new agent concepts from early brief to working v1

Required qualifications

• Demonstrable experience shipping an AI product with real users
• Active, hands-on familiarity with modern AI development tooling
• Ability to work end-to-end independently across backend, frontend, deployment, instrumentation, and iteration
• Developed perspective on AI agent design
• Strong proficiency in Python (or Go / Node) with solid backend engineering experience
• Sufficient frontend capability (React or Next.js)
• Product sensibility

Nice to have

• Experience building or operating a multi-agent system in production
• Hands-on experience with eval frameworks, prompt iteration workflows, or fine-tuning
• A public artifact such as a GitHub repo, technical blog, paper, or demo
• Experience integrating LLMs with complex, real-world data at scale

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision care for you and your family (100% coverage for employee)
• Top-tier 401(K) plan with company matching
• Paid time off and paid holidays
• FSA, HSA and commuter benefits programs
• Team activity budget

About the company

NewsBreak is a local life and news platform with more than 40 million monthly users. It includes platforms like NewsBreak, Nearby AI, and NDot AI.