Staff Engineer, Agentic AI
Airwallex· Engineering
Hybrid (US - San Francisco)$182k - $310kFull-timePosted 6mo ago
About the role
Role focused on designing and deploying intelligent systems to automate complex financial workflows, leveraging agentic AI frameworks, orchestration layers, and scalable production deployments. Hybrid US (San Francisco) with in-office presence three days per week.
Responsibilities
- Architect intelligent systems that automate complex, multi-step financial workflows
- Apply prompting, retrieval-augmented generation, fine-tuning, or training models from scratch as appropriate to the problem
- Design and optimize agent architectures for reasoning, tool use, and workflow automation
- Build systems that improve with usage and create compounding AI flywheels
- Partner with backend and frontend engineers to integrate AI reasoning into secure, production systems
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in applied AI/ML engineering, including production deployments
- Strong Python skills and experience with ML frameworks such as PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow
- A track record of building and deploying AI agents, orchestration frameworks, or multi-step reasoning systems
- Experience designing monitoring, evaluation, and iteration practices for production AI systems
- Ability to balance innovation with reliability, scalability, and compliance
Skills
Required:AI/ML engineeringPythonML frameworksAI agents / orchestration
Benefits
- Benefits vary by country and employment type in accordance with local statutory requirements. All employees receive at least the statutory minimum for paid annual leave and public holidays, with many locations offering additional company-provided vacation days.
- US-based example: medical, dental, and vision insurance; a 401(k) plan; short-term and long-term disability; basic life insurance; wellbeing benefits; 20 paid vacation days; 12 paid holidays per year
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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