Software Engineer, AI Agents

NxT Level

$180K — $320K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Strong backend and systems fundamentals
  • Product intuition and customer empathy
  • Creativity in applying LLMs/agents to practical problems
  • Comfort operating in ambiguity and iterating quickly
  • Strong communication skills and ownership mindset

Responsibilities

  • Rapidly iterate on proofs of concept (POCs) for AI in data and marketing workflows
  • Make key decisions on LLM architecture and frameworks
  • Build production data agents answering analytics and data science questions
  • Develop understanding of user workflows for AI-assisted experiences
  • Productionize LLM pipelines focusing on observability and performance

Benefits

  • Equity included as part of compensation
  • Remote work opportunity within North America
  • Focus on product-minded development
  • No prior LLM experience required for applicants
  • Emphasis on a collaborative and innovative team environment
Full Job Description
Software Engineer, AI Agents (Product-Minded LLM / Agentic Systems)

Location: Remote (North America)
Compensation: $180,000-$320,000 base (location-independent) + equity
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The Role

Our client is hiring a Software Engineer, AI Agents to build and productionize agentic systems that help customers act on their data. This is a product-minded role for someone who can move quickly from prototype production, is creative with LLM applications, and can architect reliable backend pipelines.

Youll work on AI features that directly power customer workflows-especially around analytics and data questions-and youll partner closely with product to translate ambiguity into elegant systems.

What Youll Work On
  • Rapidly iterate on proofs of concept (POCs) to explore the ceiling of AI in data + marketing workflows
  • Make key decisions on LLM architecture and frameworks, balancing speed, reliability, and maintainability
  • Build production data agents that use a companys warehouse data to answer analytics and data science questions about users and marketing performance
  • Develop a deep understanding of user workflows and design seamless AI-assisted experiences (not just chatbots)
  • Productionize LLM pipelines with strong engineering fundamentals: observability, evaluations, safety/guardrails, cost control, and performance

What Our Client Is Looking For
  • Strong backend and systems fundamentals (you can architect and ship end-to-end systems)
  • Product intuition and customer empathy-you build for real workflows, not demos
  • Creativity in applying LLMs/agents to practical problems
  • Comfort operating in ambiguity and iterating quickly
  • Strong communication skills and ownership mindset

Note: Prior LLM experience is not required. The team values strong technical skills and product thinking most; youll learn fast on the AI side if you have the fundamentals.

Compensation
  • Base salary: $180,000-$320,000 USD (location-independent within North America)
  • Equity included (details shared in process)

Interview Process

This process emphasizes product sense, system architecture, and values alignment-without programming interviews.
  1. Recruiter Screen (30 min): Intro + mutual fit
  2. System Design Screen (60 min): Design a data processing feature end-to-end
  3. Hiring Manager Interview (30 min): Past experience + operating preferences + values alignment
  4. Agent Building Systems Interview (75 min): Architect an agentic system conceptually, incorporating product/customer requirements and technical constraints

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