Software Engineer, AI Agents
Recruiting From Scratch · San Francisco, CA
$200,000–$320,000from the description
Jul 14, 2026
San Francisco, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A backend-leaning software engineering role focused on designing and shipping production AI agents and LLM pipelines for an enterprise customer data and marketing platform. The work spans prototyping new agentic product experiences, building scalable backend services, and evaluating AI models and architectures — in close collaboration with executive leadership. Best suited to engineers with 5–12 years of experience who have shipped AI-powered products at high-growth startups.
Senior level · 5+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 36,400 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 15,300–54,500
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
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 (9)
The title 'Software Engineer, AI Agents' carries no explicit seniority level word, so the title states no level; however, the 5–12 year experience range, direct CTO collaboration, 0→1 ownership, and end-to-end production scope firmly support a Senior classification.
The experience requirement spans 5–12 years; the minimum (5) is used for the overall years minimum.
Degree is listed as 'preferred' and a top engineering university is 'strongly preferred', but no degree is hard-gated — equivalent experience is implicitly accepted, so the degree requirement is None.
The posting is placed by a recruiting firm (Recruiting from Scratch) on behalf of an unnamed Series C company; the actual employer is not identified.
Bay Area proximity is stated as a preference for occasional in-person collaboration, not a hard requirement; per caller instruction, remote=true and no metro is set.
RAG and Machine Learning appear only as contextual or 'plus' references ('beyond simple RAG implementations'; 'coursework or practical experience in AI/ML is a plus'), so they are marked preferred.
Backend development and distributed systems are named as required capabilities in the Technical Requirements section but without a single canonical tool name; they are retained as skills because the JD explicitly gates on them by name ('scalable distributed backend systems', 'backend software engineering experience').
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): backend development.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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