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title: "Agent Systems Engineer"
company: "Adaption Labs"
company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/adaption-labs"
url: "https://www.remjobs.works/job/adaption-labs-agent-systems-engineer-2e279d21-4760-48c1-87f1-facf968d4997"
apply_url: "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/adaption/23ae2f19-4917-4e6a-8e0d-0e928c531019"
workplace: hybrid
location: "San Francisco"
employment_type: full-time
seniority: mid
role: devops-infrastructure
region: united-states
skills: ["llm"]
date_posted: 2026-08-21T12:16:15.634Z
first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-09-05T08:29:14.998Z
---

# Agent Systems Engineer

**Adaption Labs** · San Francisco

Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/adaption/23ae2f19-4917-4e6a-8e0d-0e928c531019

## About the role

#### The Role

You'll build the agent systems at the core of our product. These systems turn customer goals into reliable, multi-step execution across real tools and services.

This is not about building demos. You'll work on agents that operate under real constraints: incomplete information, external failures, limited budgets, and unpredictable traffic. You'll own how they plan, use tools, recover from errors, and improve over time.

#### Responsibilities

- Design agent architectures for planning, reasoning, tool use, memory, and integration with external systems and data.

- Improve reliability on long-running, multi-step tasks, including failure recovery.

- Build the loops that let agents improve with real use, so performance compounds instead of staying frozen.

- Develop evaluations that measure agent performance and resist being gamed.

- Make practical tradeoffs between quality, latency, cost, and complexity.

#### Qualifications

- 5+ years building production ML or backend systems, including taking LLM or agent applications from prototype to production.

- Strong understanding of agent design: planning, reasoning, tool use, orchestration, and memory.

- Experience building rigorous evaluation systems, plus execution tracing and observability for agents, with a focus on reproducibility.

- Familiarity with the OpenAI Responses API, MCP, and server- versus client-side execution.Above all, we're looking for great teammates who make work feel lighter and aren't afraid to go out on a limb with bold ideas. You don't need to be perfect, but you do need to be adaptable. We encourage you to apply, even if you don't check every box.

#### About us

Most AI is frozen in place - it doesn't adapt to the world. We think that's backwards. Our mandate is to build efficient intelligence that evolves in real-time. Our vision is AI systems that are flexible, personalized, and accessible to everyone. We believe efficiency is what makes this possible - it's how we expand access and ensure innovation benefits the many, not the few. We believe in talent density: bringing together the best and most driven individuals to push the boundaries of continual adaptation. We're looking for builders and creative thinkers ready to shape the next era of intelligence.

#### Benefits

- Flexible work: In-person collaboration in the Bay Area, a distributed global-first team, and team offsites.

- Adaption Passport: Annual travel stipend to explore a country you've never visited. We're building intelligence that evolves alongside you, so we encourage you to keep expanding your horizons.

- Lunch Stipend: Weekly meal allowance for take-out or grocery delivery.

- Well-Being: Comprehensive medical benefits and generous paid time off.

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