Staff Engineer, Agentic

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Salary

$350K-$500K From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Market context

U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)

$116,543 U.S. median for this role

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+9.8% - Much faster than average

265% above the BLS role benchmark for software engineering aggregate.

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Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

Role

Role function

Engineering From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Seniority

Staff Plus From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Schedule

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Company

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Offered From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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About this role

Staff Engineer, Agentic Palo Alto, California, United States About Inflection AI Inflection AI is a Public Benefit Corporation empowering people with human-centered, emotionally intelligent AI. We're shaping the future of AI by combining emotional intelligence (EQ) and raw intelligence (IQ) to elevate people's potential. Inflection AI created Pi, the world's first emotionally intelligent AI, to help people work through decisions, emotions, and challenges. Pi is a personal AI agent powered by Inflection AI's foundation model, proving that AI can be personal, empathetic, and contextually aware. About the Role As a Staff Engineer, AGentic at Inflection, you will own the platforms, systems, and services that bring our conversational AI to life at scale. You'll collaborate across research, product, and infrastructure teams to enable rapid iteration, high reliability, and secure delivery of novel AI features to millions of users. Your work will directly impact both the pace of product development and the stability of our production systems. What you'll do - Design and build backend systems that power agentic workflows in production: orchestration, memory, retrieval, and tool integrations. - Operate high-availability inference and conversation pipelines, optimizing for latency, cost, and quality. - Build internal platform pieces service templates, CI/CD, observability, evaluation harnesses, and rollout tooling that compound engineering velocity. - Partner with applied researchers and frontend engineers to design and iterate on user-facing features - Drive features from prototype to production with measurable user impact, ensuring reliability and performance at scale Must-haves - 10-15 years of backend engineering experience shipping production systems

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