Senior Staff AI-Native Software Engineer – Agentic Systems

About the Team

AI Engineering and Delivery is the customer-obsessed engineering group building the agentic AI and enterprise-scale search systems that power Now Assist AI Agents and the AI-driven experiences our customers rely on every day. We build AI as foundational platform infrastructure prioritizing robustness performance safety and real-world customer impact at scale.

Types of problems youll get to work on

You will design build and operate production-grade agentic AI systems embedded across ServiceNows platform autonomous agents that reason over real enterprise data take action across workflows and run safely at Fortune 500 scale.

Your core focus areas:

• Agentic architecture. Design and ship multi-agent systems orchestration tool use planning loops memory and failure recovery that operate reliably in production not in notebooks.
• Enterprise-grounded reasoning. Build agents that leverage ServiceNows data layer CMDB Workflow Data Fabric and Knowledge Graph to make decisions with context no frontier model has on its own.
• Trust safety and governance. Own the guardrails: observability human-in-the-loop controls and compliance infrastructure that make autonomous systems safe to deploy at scale.
• Retrieval and grounding. Work closely with our search team to ensure agents are grounded in accurate low-latency retrieval RAG pipelines hybrid search re-ranking and evaluation as a critical dependency of agentic quality.
• Model integration and evaluation. Integrate frontier models (Anthropic Google OpenAI) into the Sense Decide Act Govern architecture; evaluate trade-offs across cost latency and capability for production use cases.

Engineering leadership. Raise the technical bar through architecture decisions code reviews and coaching particularly on agentic design patterns and production AI discipline.

Why join us

Intelligence is commoditizing. Context and execution are not. With 100B workflows 6.5T transactions a year and 85% of the Fortune 500 on our platform we are building the system that makes AI actually work inside the enterprise Sense Decide Act Govern.

Whats shipping as we speak: AI Specialists autonomously resolving cases across IT CRM HR and Security. Action Fabric opening our full system of action to any external agent via MCP Anthropics Claude Cowork is the first design partner. Project Arc with NVIDIA bringing governed autonomous desktop agents into production. Build Agent live inside Cursor Claude Code and GitHub Copilot. AI Control Tower with kill-switch capabilities and cross-vendor agent governance. These are production systems at Fortune 500 scale not roadmap slides.

Youd work across three problem spaces at the frontier of what we do:

Autonomous Enterprise: Self-driving business processes grounded in CMDB Workflow Data Fabric and Knowledge Graph context no frontier lab can replicate)

Omni-channel AI Resolution: Production voice chat and computer-use agents with generative UI live with customers today

AI Control Tower: Identity entitlements and audit-grade compliance for every agentic system in the enterprise nobody else has this layer.

You will build the substrate that connects all four: SENSE (any data) DECIDE (any AI model) ACT (any workflow) GOVERN (identity governance). The architectural inflection point is now.

Qualifications :

To Be Successful in This Role

• 8 years of software engineering with strong fundamentals in data structures algorithms and distributed systems.
• Hands-on depth designing shipping and operating agentic systems in production multi-agent orchestration tool calling planning loops memory and failure recovery. Not prototypes.
• Production-grade Python. Systems language (Go Java or C) is a plus.
• Working experience with frontier AI SDKs (Anthropic Google or OpenAI) prompt engineering structured outputs and model evaluation in production settings.
• Familiarity with RAG and retrieval patterns in production vector stores hybrid search and retrieval evaluation metrics.
• Track record of technical leadership: architecture ownership code quality bar-raising and mentoring engineers on production AI practices.

Nice to Have

• Deeper specialization in search and retrieval at scale or MLOps/model observability.
• Published work or open-source contributions in agentic systems or retrieval.
• Exposure to LLM fine-tuning or inference optimization in production.

Additional Information :

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time