Staff Engineer, Agentic
Posted by employer 4 months ago
First seen on Joblaze 4 months ago
Last verified on the company career page 13 hours ago
Skills & Technologies
Requirements
- Experience
- 10–15 years
- Visa
- Sponsorship available
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In the role of Senior Backend Engineer at Inflection AI, the individual will be responsible for designing and maintaining the backend systems that support the company's conversational AI platform. Key skills include extensive experience with Python, cloud environments, and agentic AI systems, alongside a strong grasp of performance optimization and system reliability. This position is ideal for seasoned engineers with a decade or more of experience who have a proven track record in delivering impactful production systems. Inflection AI is focused on creating emotionally intelligent AI, making this role pivotal in shaping user interactions.
Joblaze insights
- Listed about 4 months ago — first seen on Joblaze May 13, 2026. Last confirmed on Inflection AI's careers page October 9, 2026.
- Salary band is above the typical range for Backend roles (median ~$180,000).
- Starts above 100% of 149 comparable senior backend roles in United States that list Python we track (median $175,000 across 61 companies). See Python salary trends
- Python appears in 40.2% of 505 comparable senior backend roles in United States; Anthropic appears in 0.2% of 505 comparable senior backend roles in United States.
Quick facts
- Is the Staff Engineer, Agentic role remote?
- It's hybrid — Inflection AI expects some on-site time in Palo Alto, California, United States.
- What's the salary range?
- Inflection AI lists $350,000–$500,000 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- 10–15 years of relevant experience for this Staff Engineer, Agentic role.
- Where is the role based?
- Inflection AI is hiring for this position in Palo Alto, California, United States.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AWS, Anthropic, Azure, Braintrust, GCP, Kubernetes.
- Does Inflection AI sponsor work visas for this role?
- Yes — the posting indicates visa sponsorship is available for the right candidate.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Inflection AI targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Staff Engineer, Agentic role at Inflection AI.
From the original posting
About Inflection AI
About the Role
As a Staff Engineer, Agentic at Inflection, you will own the platforms, systems, and services that bring our conversational AI to life at scale. You’ll collaborate across research, product, and infrastructure teams to enable rapid iteration, high reliability, and secure delivery of novel AI features to millions of users. Your work will directly impact both the pace of product development and the stability of our production systems.
What you’ll do
- Design and build backend systems that power agentic workflows in production: orchestration, memory, retrieval, and tool integrations.
- Operate high-availability inference and conversation pipelines, optimizing for latency, cost, and quality.
- Build internal platform pieces service templates, CI/CD, observability, evaluation harnesses, and rollout tooling that compound engineering velocity.
- Partner with applied researchers and frontend engineers to design and iterate on user-facing features
- Drive features from prototype to production with measurable user impact, ensuring reliability and performance at scale
Must-haves
- 10-15 years of backend engineering experience shipping production systems in cloud environments.
- Demonstrated experience building, shipping, and operating agentic AI systems in production environments with real user impact not just prototypes.
- Strong production experience with Python, Postgres, Redis, and at least one major cloud (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including containers and Kubernetes.
- Practical experience with LLM application patterns: RAG, tool use, evaluation loops, and the latency/cost/quality tradeoffs that come with them.
- Strong sense of ownership, with the ability to independently drive systems to production and operate them reliably
- Have a bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a related field to the offered position requirements
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with agent orchestration frameworks (LangGraph, LlamaIndex, OpenAI/Anthropic Agent SDKs, or equivalent in-house systems) and evaluation tooling (LangSmith, Braintrust, or similar).
- Background in streaming, queueing, or vector data infrastructure at scale.
- Past on-call ownership of customer-facing services with strict SLOs.
- Contributions to open-source agent or LLM tooling.
Employee Pay Disclosures
At Inflection AI, we aim to attract and retain the best employees and compensate them in a way that appropriately and fairly values their individual contributions to the company. For this role, Inflection AI estimates a starting annual base salary to fall within the range of $350,000 to $500,000 depending on a candidate’s qualifications and level of experience. This role also includes a meaningful equity component, allowing employees to share in the long-term success of the company.
Benefits
Inflection AI values and supports our team’s mental, emotional, financial and physical health. We are focused on building a positive, safe, inclusive and inspiring place to work. Our benefits include:
- 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
- Support of country-specific visa needs for international employees living in the Bay Area
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