Member of Technical Staff - AI Agent Systems
South San FranciscoFull-timePosted 4d ago
About the role
Role focused on building and advancing a fleet of AI agents, agent harnesses, and coordination infrastructure to create a self-improving software factory that links cloud, edge, and robotics systems.
Responsibilities
- Develop, customize, and operate agents and agent harnesses that can take on substantial software engineering work, from implementation and testing to debugging, maintenance, and integration.
- Build the infrastructure for coordinating teams of agents, including task decomposition, shared context, tool access, communication, review, and handoffs.
- Develop and empirically evaluate communication and coordination policies—determine when agents should work independently, share information, ask for help, or escalate to a human.
- Connect agent workflows to our development infrastructure, including repositories, CI, simulation, deployment systems, telemetry, and robotics tools.
- Work across the product stack, from cloud services and data infrastructure to edge software and robot execution, helping integrate critical components into a coherent system.
- Close the loop between agent execution, evaluation, and improvement—understand failures, identify the right intervention, and make the software factory increasingly capable and reliable.
Qualifications
- Strong software engineering foundations and experience building, debugging, and maintaining substantial software systems.
- An AI-native approach to engineering with deep expertise using frontier AI tools and orchestrating swarms of agents to tackle difficult agent-driven software development and production tasks.
- Experience building or customizing agents, agent harnesses, communications protocols, or other systems that combine models, tools, context, and execution.
- Strong systems thinking—the ability to understand dependencies across components, identify where interfaces break down, and make sound architectural decisions.
- Strong experimental instincts and the ability to evaluate whether an agent, workflow, or coordination strategy actually improves outcomes.
- Experience working closely with other engineers to ship and operate a shared software product.
- Good judgment about verification, permissions, deployment, and when a system needs human oversight.
- High ownership and excitement about problems where the right approach isn't obvious yet.
Skills
Required:Software engineeringAI-native agent orchestrationAgent and harness developmentSystems thinkingExperimentation and evaluationCollaboration with engineersVerification and deployment judgementOwnership and problem-framing
Benefits
- Equal Employment Opportunity statement provided in the job description.
- Reasonable Accommodations for applicants with disabilities. Contact recruiting@warp.xyz for accommodations.
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Warp Sciences
Warp Sciences | AI and robotics for faster drug discovery
Warp is the U.S. chemistry CRO helping scientists discover new medicines faster. We bring expert chemists, AI, and robotics together to make the molecules research teams need—and build automated labs that learn from every experiment.
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