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We are building the next generation of enterprise AI: systems capable of understanding complex knowledge, reasoning across information, executing multi-step workflows, and taking action with the verifiability and reliability required for mission-critical environments.\nOur Enterprise Agent Platform provides the foundation for building, deploying, and operating AI systems in production - from data connectivity and knowledge management to workflow orchestration, observability, evaluation, and governance. We partner with organizations in semiconductor manufacturing, life sciences, and other data-intensive industries to solve complex challenges that require trusted AI systems capable of operating in real-world environments.\nOur team brings experience from leading AI research labs and technology companies, including IBM Research, The Allen Institute for AI, Amazon, and Broadcom. With headquarters in New York and offices across California, Spain, and India, we bring together diverse expertise and perspectives to tackle some of the most challenging problems in enterprise AI.\nAbout the Role\nAs an AI Engineer at Emergence AI you'll build customer-facing platform capabilities and AI-powered solutions that solve real business problems. You'll work directly with Product Management, Customer Success, and enterprise customers to rapidly understand problems, ship production-quality software, and evolve customer-specific solutions into reusable platform capabilities.\nWe're looking for engineers who are AI-native, curious, and passionate about building. AI isn't a novelty, it's how you build. You use AI to accelerate implementation while remaining accountable for architecture, engineering quality, and customer outcomes. We care far more about engineering judgment, ownership, and the ability to learn than expertise in any specific programming language or framework.\nYou'll\nBring software engineering excellence, product thinking, and an AI-native builder mindset to solve challenging problems at the intersection of enterprise software and AI, including:\nBuilding customer-facing capabilities across our Enterprise Agent Platform, including agent orchestration, workflow execution, enterprise integrations, knowledge management, and administration.\nDeveloping production-ready AI workflows and reusable platform services that power enterprise solutions across multiple industries.\nDesigning trusted AI capabilities including evaluation, verification, observability, provenance, and human-in-the-loop workflows that enable customers to confidently deploy AI in production.\nBuilding intuitive developer and user experiences that simplify how enterprise customers create, configure, and operate AI agents.\nWorking directly with enterprise customers to understand their business problems, rapidly prototype solutions, and turn successful implementations into reusable platform capabilities.\nEnterprise Agent Platform\nBuild the core platform that enables customers to create, configure, deploy, and operate AI agents securely at enterprise scale. Develop capabilities including agent orchestration, workflow execution, context management, memory, governance, authentication, and enterprise integrations.\nIndustry AI Solutions\nPartner with customers in semiconductor manufacturing, life sciences, and other industries to build production-ready AI workflows that automate complex business processes. Transform customer-specific solutions into reusable platform capabilities that benefit every customer.\nTrusted AI Platform\nDesign and implement the systems that make enterprise AI trustworthy, including evaluation frameworks, verification pipelines, policy enforcement, audit trails, observability, provenance, and human-in-the-loop workflows.\nData & Knowledge Platform\nBuild the capabilities that connect to enterprise data sources, discover schemas and semantic relationships, manage enterprise knowledge, and provide AI agents with the context needed to reason accurately over complex business data.\nAgent Runtime & Workflow Engine\nDevelop the runtime that powers long-running AI workflows, managing execution state, retries, approvals, checkpoints, memory, and multi-agent coordination while ensuring reliability and transparency.\nBuild Enterprise AI Products\nDesign, build, and ship customer-facing capabilities across the Enterprise Agent Platform.\nOwn features from concept through production, balancing customer needs with long-term platform architecture.\nBuild high-quality software across the full stack, leveraging AI development tools to dramatically accelerate delivery while maintaining engineering excellence.\nMake thoughtful engineering decisions around APIs, architecture, scalability, security, performance, and maintainability.\nPartner with Customers\nWork directly with Product Management, Customer Success, and enterprise customers to understand business problems and translate them into software.\nParticipate in customer workshops, technical discussions, solution design, and production deployments.\nRapidly iterate on customer feedback and evolve successful implementations into reusable platform capabilities.\nBalance speed of delivery with building a platform that scales across customers and industries.\nBuild Trusted AI Systems\nDesign production-grade AI workflows with robust error handling, retry mechanisms, observability, auditability, and human-in-the-loop execution.\nBuild systems that are measurable, testable, debuggable, and reliable in production.\nContinuously improve platform quality through evaluation, monitoring, automation, and customer feedback.\nRaise the Engineering Bar\nEstablish engineering best practices, reusable patterns, testing standards, and high-quality software engineering practices.\nContinuously evaluate emerging AI technologies and adopt those that meaningfully improve engineering productivity and customer value.\nChallenge assumptions, simplify complexity, and continuously improve how software is designed and built.\nYou'll Have\n3+ years of professional software engineering experience building production software.\nAI-native engineer who uses Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or similar AI development tools as part of your daily engineering workflow. AI is how you build not simply a tool you occasionally use.\nStrong software engineering fundamentals with experience building production backend services, APIs, distributed systems, cloud applications, or developer platforms.\nComfortable working across the stack, whether frontend, backend, infrastructure, or cloud services. You learn new languages and frameworks quickly and choose the right technology for the problem.\nExperience building and shipping software used by real customers in production environments.\nStrong problem-solving skills, sound engineering judgment, and the ability to navigate ambiguity.\nExcellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with customers, product managers, designers, and engineers.\nSelf-driven, curious, and comfortable taking ownership in a fast-moving startup environment.\nBonus Points\nExperience building AI agents, agentic workflows, or enterprise AI applications.\nExperience with LLMs, tool calling, RAG, context engineering, memory systems, or multi-agent orchestration.\nExperience designing workflow engines, orchestration platforms, or distributed systems.\nExperience integrating enterprise data sources such as databases, data warehouses, SaaS applications, APIs, or document repositories.\nExperience building developer tools, internal platforms, or engineering productivity systems.\nFamiliarity with Rust, Go, TypeScript, Python, or other modern programming languages.\nExperience with cloud-native platforms, Kubernetes, observability, distributed tracing, or production operations.\nDemonstrated curiosity, rapid learning, and a passion for solving difficult engineering problems.\nEmergence AI offers competitive compensation.\nComprehensive health benefits including medical, dental and vision.\n401(k) with company match.\nFlexible PTO and company holidays.\nFlexible hybrid/remote work environment.\nThe opportunity to work at the forefront of technological advancement.\nCompensation Range: $180K - $250K\nEmergence AI is an equal opportunity employer committed to building an inclusive workplace where people with diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives can do their best work. We believe building trustworthy AI requires diverse ways of thinking, and we're committed to creating an environment where everyone can thrive.\nIf you're excited about this opportunity but don't meet every qualification, we encourage you to apply. 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