# Software Engineer, Agent Harness & Evaluation

Software Engineer, Agent Harness & Evaluation - San Jose, CA $180k to $325k We are hiring Software Engineers to improve the performance, reliability, and efficiency of AI agents for hardware applications. You'll identify failure modes, design and run evaluations, develop new agent capabilities, and turn successful experiments into production software. You'll join a sizable, rapidly growing team of software engineers, researchers, hardware experts, customers, and founding and field teams, working across customer discovery, evaluation design, applied research, product development, and deployment for a broad range of hardware-engineering problems. Responsibilities Finding where AI agents fail, then designing and running evaluations to improve their performance, reliability, and efficiency Building new agent capabilities, including tool interfaces, context management, memory, and multi-step or multi-agent orchestration Digging into traces and experiment results to find bottlenecks, and telling real improvements apart from benchmark noise Working with customers and domain experts to understand what they need, then shipping and maintaining fixes from start to finish (within about 3 month

- **Id**: 3794603
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/sivad-consulting-software-engineer-agent-harness-evaluation>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Jose, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: closed
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T08:36:48Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T05:01:38Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Closed at**: 2026-11-09T05:01:38Z
- **Days open**: 3
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2417
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Recruiting & Staffing

## Company

- **Id**: 3832647
- **Name**: SIVAD Consulting
- **Domain**: sivadconsulting.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/sivad-consulting>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Manatal

## Salary

- **Min**: 180000
- **Max**: 325000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 325000

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Multi-Agent Systems** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 3

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T08:36:48Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-11-09T05:01:38Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 325000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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