[Hiring] Senior AI Agent Engineer @Relay (Uneven Labs, Inc.)

Role Description

We're hiring a Senior AI Agent Engineer on the Developer Experience team. You'll own Relay's internal AI agent — a Slack-native agent that works across our tools to investigate issues, answer questions, and complete operational work. This is a hands-on builder role. You're measured by what the agent gets done, accurately and safely.

• Cover US business hours
• This role is remote within the United States, with dependable overlap with the teams whose workflows you're automating.
• Own and improve the agent
• Own the agent backlog; prioritize by impact, frequency, and risk
• Review real misses each week and turn them into regression evals, fixed tools, or better guidance
• Turn expert workflows into agent skills, decision logic, and escalation paths
• Build knowledge systems that help agents find, connect, and reason over Relay's structured and unstructured information, with clear provenance and freshness
• Improve retrieval, orchestration, and verification; own regressions through resolution
• Measure task success, correction rate, latency, and cost, and report them
• Connect agents to Relay's systems safely
• Integrate agents with internal systems through APIs and MCP tools
• Choose deterministic code, simple automation, or agent behavior on the merits
• Treat permissions, side effects, human approval, and failure recovery as product features

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software engineering, developer tooling, or platform engineering
• Production experience with LLM agents: tool use, retrieval, structured outputs, orchestration
• Experience building search, retrieval, or knowledge systems across structured and unstructured information
• Strong TypeScript or Python and experience building API integrations
• Experience designing evals or automated tests for nondeterministic software
• Familiarity with permissions, secrets, auditability, and safe handling of side effects
• Strong written communication; you can turn an expert's workflow into a precise spec

Requirements

• You're a product-minded engineer who ships AI systems into real workflows
• You care about correctness, permissions, and failure handling as much as model capability
• You read traces before you change prompts
• You'd often rather add a linter, a type, or a test than tune a prompt
• You know when conventional software beats an agent
• You can sit with a domain expert, extract how they decide, and encode it into testable behavior
• You're comfortable being the first dedicated hire for a new function

Benefits

• Competitive base salary
• Equity package
• Comprehensive health benefits
• Unlimited PTO policy with encouraged minimum
• Remote-first culture with emphasis on collaboration, communication, and flexibility