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Staff Engineer, Agentic

Inflection AI· Engineering
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Palo Alto, CA$350k - $500kfull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Staff Engineer role owning platforms, systems, and services that enable scalable, reliable conversational AI features at Inflection AI.

Responsibilities

  • 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 to increase 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

Qualifications

  • 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 beyond 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 latency/cost/quality tradeoffs.
  • Strong sense of ownership, with the ability to independently drive systems to production and operate them reliably.
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a related field to the offered position requirements

Skills

Required:Backend engineeringPythonPostgreSQLRedisCloud platformsContainers & KubernetesLLM application patternsOwner-ship & initiative

Benefits

  • 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
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Inflection AI

Pi, your personal AI

Inflection AI is pioneering the future with human-centered, emotionally intelligent AI that transforms interactions from transactional to reltational, creating enduring value for individuals and enterprises alike.

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