Staff AI Engineer – Agent Platform

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Europe.

📋 Description

• Design agents capable of planning, utilizing tools, managing multi-step tasks, and identifying when human intervention is necessary.

• Develop reusable components tailored for new applications.

• Integrate agents with corporate knowledge and collaborate with stakeholders to define the essential content of that knowledge.

• Enhance answer reliability, manage source citation, implement access control, and ensure safe decisions without action.

• Create evaluations and oversee quality and cost management.

• Keep model selections current and relevant.

• Deliver features seamlessly from the agent to the backend.

• Establish architectural patterns, document decisions, maintain updated specifications, and review designs in partnership with engineering, product, and design teams.

• Collaborate cohesively across design, product, engineering, and AI from the initial problem definition to production deployment.

• Work closely with the CTO as a technical collaborator.

⛳️ Requirements

• You have successfully deployed multi-step, tool-utilizing LLM agents to production (LangGraph or a comparable framework).

• You understand the scenarios where sub-agents are beneficial, how to create effective evaluations, and the reasons behind retrieval failures.

• Proficient in Python and productive in TypeScript/Node (experience with NestJS is a plus).

• Familiarity with PostgreSQL and data modeling.

• You regularly use AI coding tools such as Claude Code.

• Capable of writing clear specifications and explaining trade-offs to non-engineers.

• Fluent in English (C1–C2 level).

• Nice-to-have: Experience connecting agents to tools and data via MCP.

• Nice-to-have: Experience working with knowledge graphs or other methods of modeling relationships between people, work, and information.

• Nice-to-have: Experience running models in production on AWS Bedrock or Vertex AI.

• Nice-to-have: Experience tracing and debugging agents using LLM observability tools like Langfuse.

• Nice-to-have: Proficiency in German.

• You have set technical directions that extend beyond your individual contributions, enabling others to build on your frameworks.

• You prioritize user needs and potential issues before selecting tools.

• You care about the long-term coherence of the system.

• Willingness to engage in backend tasks when features require it.

• You seek influence through your contributions rather than through your title.

• You enjoy collaborating with designers and product teams.

• You appreciate technical discussions and are open to changing your perspective when presented with a stronger argument.

🏝️ Benefits

• Permanent employment.

• 40 hours per week.

• 30 days of annual leave.

• Flexible remote working arrangements.

• Opportunities for learning and development.

• Generous vacation and workation budget.

• Technical ownership of the platform that is central to wingmaite's product.