Senior/Staff Applied AI Engineer

Echelon Insights · San Francisco

The role

Echelon is building an AI platform to automate business operations knowledge work. This role involves designing and shipping production agents, orchestration patterns, evaluation suites, and guardrails. The position requires 4+ years of production software experience with substantial LLM/ML work.

Location
San Francisco
Level
Senior
Experience
4+ yrs

What we know that the posting doesn’t say

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  • Posted 25 days agothe first time we saw it

About Echelon Insights

Echelon is building an AI platform for Business Operations, combining process mining with a living ontology to automate knowledge work and connect fragmented enterprise data.

What you would do

  • Design and ship production agents for multi-step work
  • Build orchestration patterns for agent swarms
  • Create evaluation suites for task success and safety
  • Improve context engineering across prompts and retrieval
  • Build guardrails for permissions and sensitive data
  • Compare models using production traces and outcomes

Must have

  • 4+ years building production software
  • Hands-on work with LLM or ML products
  • Shipped agentic system beyond prototype
  • Improved system using production feedback
  • Strong Python and/or TypeScript engineering
  • Experience with tool calling and structured generation
  • Experience with retrieval and model evaluation
  • Experience with multi-step workflows
  • Judgment on using model or deterministic code
  • Comfort debugging nondeterministic behavior
  • High agency and direct communication
  • Comfort owning outcomes under changing requirements

Nice to have

  • Multi-agent systems or long-running agents
  • Computer use or code execution experience
  • Planning and reasoning systems experience
  • Vercel AI SDK, OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral
  • AI Gateway, Braintrust or comparable platforms
  • Knowledge graphs or ontologies experience
  • Process mining or entity resolution experience
  • Temporal data experience

What you get

  • Fully covered health insurance
  • Fully covered dental insurance
  • Fully covered vision insurance
  • 401(k) plan
  • Team lunches and dinners in office
  • Unlimited PTO

Experience and education

  • 4+ years of relevant experience

Key skills

  • python
  • typescript
  • llm
  • ml
  • tool calling
  • structured generation
  • retrieval
  • model evaluation
  • multi-step workflows
  • vercel ai sdk
  • openai
  • anthropic
  • mistral
  • ai gateway
  • braintrust
  • knowledge graphs
  • ontologies
  • process mining
  • entity resolution
  • temporal data
  • enterprise security
  • sandboxed execution
  • document intelligence
  • browser automation

ABOUT ECHELON Echelon is building the AI platform for Business Operations. Our goal is to automate the knowledge work of BizOps so one exceptional operator can deliver the leverage of an entire team, as Ramp and Rippling have done for Finance and HR. Our platform combines passive process mining w…

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