Frontier Agents Engineer (Applied AI)

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

As a Frontier Agent Engineer (Applied AI) , you'll bridge the gap between cutting-edge AI research and production deployment. You'll work directly with enterprise customers to design, evaluate, and deploy intelligent systems that combine frontier models with structured knowledge, retrieval, traditional machine learning, and enterprise software.

What it asks for · 7

• 4+ years of software engineering, machine learning, or applied AI experience.
• Strong Python programming skills.
• Experience building production AI systems using LLMs.
• Experience with modern AI tooling, including OpenAI, Claude, MCP, agent frameworks, vector databases, or retrieval systems.
• Strong understanding of machine learning fundamentals and modern language models.
• Experience designing or evaluating AI systems using quantitative metrics.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work directly with enterprise customers.

Tools and skills named

Words the posting leans on

• systems30×
• production17×
• experience15×
• agent14×
• customer14×
• models14×
• enterprise12×
• architectures8×
• frontier8×
• engineering7×
• production systems7×
• reasoning7×
• retrieval7×
• applied6×
• engineer6×
• business5×

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