Staff AI Engineer leading Calix’s enterprise agent platform for broadband providers. Building agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, integrations, and governance across product development.
Responsibilities
Own the architecture and rollout of the enterprise AI platform across the product organization
Build and operate cost-effective AI infrastructure, including model garden setup, budget controls, cost monitoring, model tiering, and fallback open-source models
Establish platform foundations including identity federation/SSO, IAM, tenant isolation, security and compliance guardrails, and observability
Enable adoption of enterprise AI capabilities through training and ongoing support
Design and deliver a self-service agent factory with patterns, templates, and in-IDE guardrails
Lead the design and build of agent workflows across ideation, development, deployment, CI/CD, and monitoring
Partner with product, engineering, and business teams to develop use cases and drive measurable productivity gains
Establish evaluation, quality, and monitoring practices for agent workflows from sandbox to production
Build interoperable agents using cross-platform contracts, schema/intent mapping, and cross-perimeter authentication
Represent the product organization in cross-platform agent design discussions
Own technical strategy, standards, patterns, and guardrails for agentic workflows, RAG, security, and governance
Lead and mentor teams across cloud and enterprise AI tracks through code reviews, pairing, and design reviews
Scope, review, and manage external delivery partners’ work
Build reference agents, RAG pipelines, integrations, and MCP connectors, and debug complex retrieval and generation behavior
Requirements
10+ years of software engineering experience
4+ years in a technical lead or staff-level role
Strong, current hands-on coding ability
Proficiency in Python and comfort with at least one other modern language
Experience designing and operating production AI/ML or LLM-based systems, including agents, RAG, or prompt/evaluation pipelines
Deep familiarity with Google Vertex AI, Gemini, IAM, networking, observability, and cost management
Experience building developer-facing platforms or internal tooling and driving adoption through training and support
Experience integrating systems via APIs and connectors
Comfort with authentication and identity federation, including OAuth, SSO, and workload identity
Track record of leading technical initiatives across teams and influencing without authority
Strong communication skills with engineers and non-technical business stakeholders
Preferred: hands-on experience with Gemini Enterprise, Vertex AI, NotebookLM, or comparable enterprise AI tooling
Preferred: experience with agentic systems and orchestration, including agent development kits, A2A protocols, MCP, and tool/function calling
Preferred: experience with LLM gateways and routing, model cost optimization, and multi-model fallback strategies
Preferred: experience managing or working alongside systems integrators or delivery partners
Preferred: familiarity with Jira/Confluence, Figma, GitHub, CI/CD, and AI coding assistants
Preferred: familiarity with AI governance, guardrails, data privacy, and enterprise compliance
Benefits
Potential eligibility for a bonus as part of the total compensation package
Employee benefits package (specific benefits linked in the posting)
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