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Senior Software Engineer Internal AI Agent Infrastructure
Job Location:
Job Location:
Seattle, WA - USA
Yearly Salary:
USD 147000 - 178500
Yearly Salary:
Posted:
12 November 2026 (Yesterday)
Posted:
Application Deadline:
9 February 2027
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Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
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Job Summary
At Qualtrics we create software the worlds best brands use to deliver exceptional frontline experiences build high-performing teams and design products people love. But we are more than a platformwe are the creators and stewards of the Experience Management category serving over thousands of clients globally. Building a category takes grit determination and a disdain for conventionbut most of all it requires close-knit high-functioning teams with an unwavering dedication to serving our customers.
When you join one of our teams youll be part of a nimble group thats empowered to set aggressive goals and move fast to achieve them. Strategic risks are encouraged and complex problems are solved together by passing the mic and iterating until the best solution comes to light. You wont have to look to find growth opportunitiesready or not theyll find you. From retail to government to healthcare were on a mission to bring humanity connection and empathy back to business. Join over 5000 people across the globe who think thats work worth doing.
Senior Software Engineer - Internal AI Agent Infrastructure
Why We Have This Role The Internal AI Agent Infrastructure team builds an internal cloud agent platform that helps Qualtrics engineers use AI agents running on company infrastructure. This role will contribute to the platform including a near-term effort to support Press Ganey users with a different GitLab instance. The work also includes the MCP gateway which connects approved tools and services for internal use. The platform helps engineers use AI capabilities while the team manages security and governance requirements. The role works with a senior engineering team and responds to feedback from engineers across Qualtrics.
How Youll Find Success
- Take initiative be a self-starter and propose ideas to move the team forward.
- Follow the latest industry trend changes in AI tooling and research how they could be applied to the platform.
- Possessing deep knowledge of agent concepts such as MCPs skills harnesses and more.
- Advocate for changes that can improve platform usage speed or reliability.
- Use feedback from engineers to help shape platform work.
- Take responsibility for features through release and follow-up bug fixes.
How Youll Grow
- Develop experience building and maintaining an internal cloud agent platform.
- Learn about AI tools and developments by evaluating how they can be used at Qualtrics.
- Understand how to build and maintain security controls and provide AI governance to an enterprise.
- Hone your product management skills by learning the needs of our engineers to build out roadmaps boosting their productivity.
Things Youll Do
- Improve the platform by designing and implementing new features based on engineering needs and feedback.
- Expand access to the platform by supporting new GitLab instances and other repositories.
- Enable internal tool use by managing and governing our MCP Gateway which controls all MCP integrations.
- Partner with our security team to ensure all new toolings are compliant and adequate admin controls are in place.
- Proactively improve platform use and reliability by identifying bottlenecks and making changes to address them.
- Own delivered features through release and address bugs and technical debt that arise.
What Were Looking For On Your Resume
- Experience improving developer experience (DevEx) such as building buying or integrating tools for internal engineering teams.
- Hands-on expertise with modern AI tooling including MCP servers agent skills agent harnesses and using AI agents in your daily workflow.
- A track record of designing and building platforms that scale along with reliable maintainable systems and processes.
- Experience partnering directly with internal users to gather feedback measure adoption and turn pain points into product improvements.
- Strong ownership and communication skills including driving cross-team initiatives writing clear technical documentation and helping other engineers adopt new tools and practices.
- Machine learning experience is a plus not a requirement.
- 5 years of software development experience.
What You Should Know About This Team
- The team has 6 people all at senior level or above and has an on-call rotation.
- Work is mostly focused coding with a daily standup and usually about one weekly team discussion or design review.
- The team moves fast; we have at least one notable change each week that impacts all of engineering.
- The team uses feedback from engineers to guide platform improvements.
- The teams work includes reviewing new AI developments and considering how to make them usable by other engineers.
Our Teams Favorite Perks and Benefits
- Fun and collaborative office environment with in office amenities food drinks outdoor space and of course pinball!
- Quarterly team offsites giving developers a chance to interact with each other outside of the office and build camaraderie.
- Education budget you can flexibly spend on topics that interest you.
- QED (Qualtrics Engineer Development) Program encourages all engineers to invest in themselves up to 10% of their time each quarter to advance their careers.
The Qualtrics Hybrid Work Model: Our hybrid work model is elegantly simple: we all gather in the office three days a week; Mondays and Thursdays plus one day selected by your organizational leader. These purposeful in-person days in thoughtfully designed offices help us do our best work and harness the power of collaboration and innovation. For the rest of the week work where you want owning the integration of work and life.
Qualtrics is an equal opportunity employer meaning that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability status as a protected veteran or any other protected characteristic.
Applicants in the United States of America have rights under Federal Employment Laws:Family & Medical Leave ActEqual Opportunity EmploymentEmployee Polygraph Protection Act
Qualtrics is committed to the inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment Qualtrics will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process to perform essential job functions and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment please let your Qualtrics contact/recruiter know.
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For full-time positions this pay range is for base per year; however base pay offered within this range may vary depending on location job-related knowledge education skills and experience. A sign-on bonus and restricted stock units may be included in an employment offer. Full-time employees are eligible for medical dental vision life and disability 401(k) with match paid time off a wellness reimbursement and mental health benefits. For a detailed look at our benefits visitQualtrics US Benefits.
Washington State Base Annual Pay Transparency Range
$147000 - $178500 USD
Required Experience:
Senior IC
About Company
The Qualtrics Platform and our specialized AI uncovers insights, prioritizes actions, and empowers everyone to improve customer & employee experiences.
