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Sr. Lead Engineer, Applied AI (Customer Agent)

💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-30

Core

Architecting and building a production conversational AI system (Customer Agent) that enables brands to serve their own customers at scale.

Role type

Principal-caliber Senior Lead Engineer (Applied AI)

Builds

A 0-to-1 agentic platform for customer service

Domain

AI/ML, Conversational AI, Customer Support

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Production agentic system architecture, non-deterministic system reliability, system orchestration, evaluation frameworks, guardrails, memory & context management, self-healing mechanisms, failure handling, hands-on coding, technical strategy, cross-functional leadership

Preferred skills

Multi-tenant agent platform experience, 0-to-1 product building, AI observability, human-in-the-loop workflows

Technologies

LLMs, Agentic Systems

Responsibilities

Set technical and product direction for the core platform, solve hardest technical problems personally (orchestration, evals, guardrails), write and ship code, build reusable architecture and frameworks, partner with product and data science leaders, evaluate emerging AI technologies

Seniority

Senior, Principal-level Individual Contributor

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