Engineering Lead, Agents

Poesis AI

Engineering Lead guiding AI-driven investment agent development. Leading technical teams at Poesis to shape innovative investment strategies with advanced technology.

Posted 6/24/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $180,000 - $280,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

GoPythonRustSQLTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Provide technical leadership across the agent platform
Design and build agent-driven workflows and internal systems
Build eval, observability, and feedback systems that improve agent reliability, performance, and learning over time
Establish patterns and infrastructure for reliable agent deployment

Requirements

What you’ll need

3+ years building software at a frontier AI lab, agentic startup, leading hedge fund, big tech company, or similar
Strong familiarity with the modern AI stack (LLMs, tool use, orchestration, evaluation)
Proficiency in Python and SQL, with bonus for TypeScript, Go, or Rust
Basic understanding of financial markets and a personal or professional interest in investing
Demonstrated experience designing, building, and deploying multi-agent systems in production environments; expertise in agent orchestration, tool calling, context window management, and agent grounding
Proven ability to anticipate and address failure modes, with hands-on experience in observability and evaluation of agent systems
BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience

Benefits

Comp & perks

excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
catered lunches in our Menlo Park office
commuter benefits
relocation allowance available

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Hard Skills & Tools

PythonSQLTypeScriptGoRustagent orchestrationtool callingcontext window managementagent groundingobservability

Soft Skills

technical leadershipproblem-solvinganticipation of failure modes

Certifications

BS in Computer ScienceMS in Computer SciencePhD in Computer Science