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Senior AI Engineer, Agentic Systems

Rubrik · Palo Alto, CA · On-site

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About Rubrik

Backed by Greylock, Khosla and Lightspeed.

About the role

We want senior engineers who have already shipped agents that real people rely on, and who are ready to do it again at higher stakes. You will drop into the real work, redesign it around agents that carry it end to end, and ship it as the new way that part of Rubrik operates.You’ll own your agent systems end to end: understanding the workflow, designing the architecture, writing the code, deploying, and running it in production. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • System design: break down complex problems, design APIs and data models, reason about latency, throughput, and failure modes, and choose simple, robust architectures
  • Algorithms, data structures, access control permissions, and data provenance
  • Execution discipline: use version control, code review, automated tests, CI or CD, staged rollouts and rollbacks, logging, metrics, and tracing, and improve systems based on issues and signals from production
  • Build agents in code using LLM APIs, SDKs, and libraries, not just no code or low code tools, and have shipped agentic systems that real users rely on
  • Design robust agent harnesses and multi agent orchestrations: model tools and resources, manage context and state, and keep runs reliable under real world data and load
  • Establish continuous evaluation and safety mechanisms: turn production failures into test cases, gate changes on eval suite results, and enforce guardrails across agent workflows
More about this role

Rubrik secures and accelerates the world’s AI transformation. As AI agents reshape the enterprise, Rubrik’s Enterprise AI Incubation team proves it on Rubrik itself.

We are building a thinking enterprise: applications that don't just record the business but help run it. They learn from our data, act through our own agents, and improve with every decision.

Fully backed by executive leadership, this team drives meaningful, large-scale enterprise transformation.

We want senior engineers who have already shipped agents that real people rely on, and who are ready to do it again at higher stakes. You will drop into the real work, redesign it around agents that carry it end to end, and ship it as the new way that part of Rubrik operates.You’ll own your agent systems end to end: understanding the workflow, designing the architecture, writing the code, deploying, and running it in production. Rather than simply querying an API, you engineer robust, production-grade infrastructure around model endpoints, integrating custom tooling, context pipelines, automated evaluations, and defensive guardrails to ensure resilience against unstructured real-world data.

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