Staff Enterprise AI Engineer – Agentic Workflows, Productivity

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About the role

  • 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)
  • Remote-based position

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Lead

Salary

$136,000 - $231,000 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

CloudPython

Location requirements

RemoteUnited States

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