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Lead Engineer, AI Agent Systems

PatSnap


Job Location:

Shanghai - China

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 22 August 2026 (7 days ago)
Application Deadline: 19 November 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Responsibilities
Architecture Leadership and Evolution
  • Lead the architecture and evolution of next-generation agent infrastructure designed for complex knowledge-intensive work.
  • Define clear boundaries and collaboration mechanisms across three core layers: the execution engine context and reasoning orchestration and the agent capability foundation. Ensure high availability reliability and long-term extensibility in environments with a low tolerance for hallucinations and incorrect outputs.

Agent Execution Engine

  • Design and implement the Agent Loop runtime and its middleware pipelines.
  • Lead the execution and orchestration of planning and sub-agent workflows including task decomposition dependency management concurrency control and execution scheduling.
  • Build mechanisms for checkpointing interruption and resumption failure recovery self-healing authorization and cost control to ensure the reliable execution of long-running and complex multi-step tasks.

Context and Reasoning Orchestration

  • Own the design and implementation of core context orchestration capabilities.
  • Develop strategies for input standardization dynamic capability representation and hierarchical context-budget management including structured degradation when resource or context limits are reached.
  • Build structured task workspaces that support efficient organization of dynamic context. Address challenges including long-history compression tool-output normalization evidence traceability and the management of information across different stages of a task.

Agent Capability Foundation

Lead the development of foundational agent capabilities including:

  • Secure sandboxed environments using technologies such as Docker Kubernetes and AST-based controls
  • Multi-layer memory stores
  • Retrieval and knowledge-access capabilities
  • An MCP (Model Context Protocol) Hub
  • Skill execution and management engines
  • File-processing and transfer pipelines
  • Multi-tenant isolation and security controls
  • End-to-end observability and diagnostics

Technical Leadership and Team Enablement

  • Remain hands-on and personally contribute code to critical platform modules.
  • Lead technical decomposition architecture decisions code reviews and the development of automated evaluation systems and feedback loops.
  • Guide the engineering team in translating specific business use cases into reusable platform and infrastructure capabilities.
Qualifications
Engineering and Leadership Experience
  • At least five years of professional software engineering experience.
  • Proven experience leading the design and delivery of complex software systems beyond standard CRUD applications or basic integrations with AI APIs.
  • Demonstrated experience operating as a Tech Lead Staff Engineer or equivalent technical leader.
  • Experience leading an engineering team of at least three people.

Core Engineering Capabilities

  • Strong Python software-engineering skills and the ability to independently own critical platform modules.
  • Deep experience with common engineering challenges such as streaming responses asynchronous and concurrent execution and multi-model routing and provider integration.
  • Strong judgement in balancing system reliability security cost latency and delivery speed.
  • Solid understanding of distributed systems production architecture debugging and operational reliability.

Depth in AI and Agent Systems

Candidates must have substantial hands-on engineering experience with Agent and LLM systems with deep expertise in at least two of the following three areas:

Execution Engine
  • Multi-step reasoning loops
  • Tool lifecycle management
  • Planning and sub-agent orchestration
  • Interruption and resumption
  • Failure recovery and self-healing

Context and Reasoning Orchestration

  • Input standardization
  • Context assembly
  • Context and token-budget governance
  • Provider-specific request shaping
  • Task-stage modelling
  • Long-context compression and evidence traceability

Agent Capability Foundation

  • Sandbox isolation
  • Memory and retrieval systems
  • MCP infrastructure
  • File-system and file-processing capabilities
  • Multi-tenant isolation
  • Security monitoring and observability


Required Experience:

Senior IC


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Patsnap empowers IP and R&D teams with advanced AI to get better answers and make faster decisions. Increase IP productivity by 75% while reducing R&D wastage by 25%.

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