AI Engineer - Agent Runtime
Aurora · Philadelphia, PA
$150,000–$250,000from the description
Jun 29, 2026
Philadelphia, PA
Jul 20, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
Senior level · Remote · Full-time
Posted 2 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
No specific technologies, languages, or frameworks are named anywhere in the posting — the JD is written entirely in terms of system capabilities and engineering judgment rather than a named stack. Skills are extracted from the hard requirements described in the 'Who this is for' section.
The posting names no minimum years of overall experience; seniority is inferred from the scope (end-to-end ownership of a production agent runtime at consumer scale) and the 'Senior' title.
Timezone is constrained to Pacific or Central (US), and there is a Sunday evening standup aligned to China Monday — worth flagging for candidates who value work-life boundaries.
Visa support (H1B transfers and some new H1Bs) is mentioned as case-by-case, not guaranteed.
The recruiter (Aurora) is a third-party placement firm; the actual employer is an unnamed a16z/Mayfield/Khosla-backed consumer social startup with ByteDance lineage.
Distributed tracing and regression testing appear as supporting capabilities described in context/narrative sections rather than as explicit gates, so they are marked preferred.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): agent orchestration.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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