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With the agility of a start-up and the wisdom of seasoned experts, Bot Auto boasts a team that has achieved numerous world-firsts and unparalleled innovations. United by a shared vision, we create miracles and propel the future of transportation. Join us and transform your dreams into reality.\nWe are seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Applied AI to architect, build, ship, and operate production-grade AI and agentic systems across Bot Auto. This is an engineering-first role for a senior software engineer with proven experience building real AI agentic products or business workflows in production. You should be comfortable owning the system end to end across backend services, full-stack applications, databases, infrastructure, integrations, and modern AI/LLM engineering, while making sound decisions about where probabilistic AI should and should not be used.\nKey Responsibilities\nOwn architecture and end-to-end implementation of production agentic products and workflows from problem definition through deployment and operation.\nDesign boundaries between deterministic software, workflow engines, databases, source systems, and probabilistic agent reasoning.\nBuild and review backend services, APIs, full-stack applications, and operator/user-facing tools supporting agentic workflows.\nDesign agent orchestration, tool contracts, workflow state, memory, context, retrieval, approvals, escalation, retries, idempotency, rollback, and failure recovery.\nDesign production data architecture, including relational schemas, state persistence, caching/search, event systems, and consistency behavior.\nIntegrate AI systems with enterprise tools, internal APIs, data platforms, and operational systems while preserving permissions, auditability, and source-of-authority boundaries.\nPartner with infrastructure teams on cloud architecture, containers, CI/CD, queues, observability, tracing, security, scaling, latency, and cost.\nEstablish reusable engineering patterns and reference implementations; work directly with users to convert high-value workflows into reliable products.\nRequired Qualifications\n6+ years of relevant professional software engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated experience building and shipping production systems.\nDemonstrated hands-on experience architecting, building, shipping, and operating production-grade AI agentic applications, products, or business workflows.\nStrong backend and full-stack engineering capability across services, APIs, databases, application state, and user-facing web applications.\nStrong programming skills in Python and at least one modern application language such as TypeScript/JavaScript, or Go.\nStrong understanding of distributed systems, databases, data modeling, transactions/consistency, event-driven architectures, and production application design.\nStrong working knowledge of cloud infrastructure, containers, CI/CD, observability, security, and production operations.\nDeep practical understanding of LLM/agent systems, including tool calling, orchestration, context, retrieval, memory, workflow state, human review, guardrails, and failure recovery.\nExperience owning real production issues such as nondeterministic failures, stale context, tool errors, duplicate actions, permission failures, model regressions, latency, and cost trade-offs.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience with MCP, LangGraph, LangChain, LlamaIndex, or equivalent agent/tool orchestration frameworks.\nExperience with Temporal or another durable workflow engine for long-running, stateful workflows.\nExperience designing RAG, hybrid retrieval, vector search, graph/knowledge systems, or context-engineering architectures.\nExperience with eval-driven development, tracing, offline/online evaluation, model/prompt versioning, guardrails, and regression testing.\nExperience leading technical initiatives across teams; experience in autonomous systems, logistics, robotics, or other mission-critical domains is a plus.\nCompensation\nFor candidates based in California, the anticipated annual base salary range for this position is $160,000-$220,000. 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