Senior Software Engineer, Applied AI at Bot Auto

Department: Software Engineering

Compensation · Listed in posting

$160,000 – $220,000/yr

Type: Full-time
Level: senior
Posted: Sep 18, 2026

Description

Bot Auto is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Applied AI to architect, build, ship, and operate production-grade AI and agentic systems. The role owns end-to-end agentic products and workflows, including backend services, APIs, databases, infrastructure, integrations, agent orchestration, workflow state, retrieval, memory, guardrails, and failure recovery. Candidates need at least six years of relevant software engineering experience, strong Python and modern application-language skills, distributed-systems knowledge, cloud and production operations expertise, and practical experience with LLM/agent systems. The California base salary range is $160,000–$220,000 annually.

Required Skills

Python
TypeScript/JavaScript
Go
Distributed systems
LLM/agent systems
Cloud infrastructure
CI/CD
Observability
Agent orchestration
RAG

Additional Information

Required Previous Experiences: 6+ years of relevant professional software engineering experience or equivalent experience building and shipping production systems
Hands-on experience architecting, building, shipping, and operating production-grade AI agentic applications, products, or business workflows
Experience owning real production issues involving nondeterministic failures, stale context, tool errors, duplicate actions, permission failures, model regressions, latency, and cost trade-offs
Preferred Qualifications: Experience with MCP, LangGraph, LangChain, LlamaIndex, or equivalent agent/tool orchestration frameworks
Experience with Temporal or another durable workflow engine for long-running, stateful workflows
Experience designing RAG, hybrid retrieval, vector search, graph/knowledge systems, or context-engineering architectures
Experience with eval-driven development, tracing, offline/online evaluation, model/prompt versioning, guardrails, and regression testing
Experience leading technical initiatives across teams; experience in autonomous systems, logistics, robotics, or other mission-critical domains
Translation Company Name: Bot Auto