Staff Engineer, Agentic AI
About the Role
This is a senior technical leadership role at the heart of an early-stage AI software company building intelligent agents for hardware engineers. You will own the core agent intelligence layer that turns engineers' intent into reliable, cost-efficient multi-step workflows across desktop CAD, simulation, and PLM tools. Reporting directly to the CTO, the work you do here determines the product's real-world value to enterprise customers.
What You'll Do
Lead development of the agent intelligence layer that executes multi-step workflows across complex desktop engineering software.
Serve as technical lead for a small team of AI engineers, a user researcher, and domain expert contractors.
Own the full product loop: define agent capabilities from user stories, build implementations, and benchmark against real workflows.
Drive agent task success rate by defining evaluation frameworks, establishing baselines, and iterating on completion metrics.
Set and enforce per-task token budgets and track cost per completed workflow to ensure commercial viability.
Build rigorous, reproducible evaluation infrastructure grounded in validated user stories.
