Staff Engineer, Agentic
Inflection · Palo Alto, California, United States
CHECKED 5H AGO
Frontier labonsitestaff$350k–$500k
At a glance
Highlights
- Own platforms bringing conversational AI to life at scale for millions.
- Build agentic workflows with memory, retrieval, and tool integrations.
- Drive features from prototype to production with measurable user impact.
What they offer
- Meaningful equity component
- Robust medical, dental and vision options with employer contributions for HSA, FSA and DFSA
- 401k matching program
- Flexible Time Off, 10 paid holidays, 5 days sick leave
- Parental, Medical and Family care leave
- Generous cell-phone, wellness and office set up stipends
Ideal candidate
A seasoned backend owner who thrives operating reliable systems at scale and loves turning AI prototypes into trusted products for millions. You care deeply about velocity, quality, and emotionally intelligent AI.
Requirements
- 10-15 years of backend engineering experience shipping production systems in cloud environments
- Demonstrated experience building, shipping, and operating agentic AI systems in production with real user impact
- Strong production experience with Python, Postgres, Redis, and AWS, GCP, or Azure including containers and Kubernetes
- Practical experience with LLM patterns including RAG, tool use, evaluation loops, and latency/cost/quality tradeoffs
- Strong ownership with ability to independently drive systems to production and operate reliably
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in related field
- visa sponsorship
- Support of country-specific visa needs for international employees living in the Bay Area
Lab profile
About Inflection
Builds human-centered, emotionally intelligent AI combining EQ and IQ via Pi.
What they build
- Pi
- Inflection foundation model
Known for
- Emotionally intelligent AI
- Human-centered AI
- Agentic AI systems
- Realtime voice AI