Senior Software Engineer, Agentic AI Platform

C3 AI • Redwood City, CA

1d • $160,000 - $219,000

About The Position

C3 AI is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the team building the C3 Agentic AI Platform. This platform is designed to enable AI agents to observe, reason, decide, and act on live operational data across critical industries. The role emphasizes accuracy, performance, and safety in production AI systems where mistakes have significant consequences. The ideal candidate will have a strong computer science and mathematics background, experience building scalable production software systems, and a passion for continuous learning in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. As part of the engineering team, you will collaborate with product owners and data scientists, taking ownership of the entire software engineering lifecycle. The focus is on building reliable, measurable, and explainable AI agents that operate effectively in real-world, high-stakes environments.

Requirements

• Advanced degree in computer science, math, or a similar field.
• Strong command of software architecture and design principles, with a track record of designing scalable, reliable, and maintainable systems and making architectural trade-offs deliberately.
• Thorough knowledge of data structures, algorithms, profiling/optimization, and Object-Oriented and Functional Programming.
• Strong programming skills in Java, Python, and JavaScript.
• High proficiency with agentic coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor) — going beyond individual tool use to orchestrate engineering workflows across multiple agents working in parallel. You decompose work, delegate to and coordinate several coding agents at once, and review their output with the judgment to catch subtle bugs, security issues, and architectural drift, all while collaborating closely with teammates and keeping code correct, secure, and maintainable.
• In-depth understanding of machine learning algorithms; familiarity with LLMs and AI agent architectures is a strong plus.
• Proven track record of applying machine learning or AI in a production system.
• Demonstrated end-to-end ownership of projects, including making key design decisions and understanding the tradeoffs.
• A minimum of 5 years of work experience in a fast-paced software company.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with LLMs and AI agent architectures.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build the systems, tools, and frameworks that let data scientists and developers create, deploy, and operate agentic AI applications on the C3 Agentic AI Platform — applying sound design principles to ground agents in governed enterprise data and run them on reliable, scalable runtimes and end-to-end pipelines in a distributed system.
• Advance agent accuracy: build the evaluations, grounding, and feedback loops that measure and improve correctness, reduce hallucination, and track override rates in production.
• Drive agent performance: optimize latency, throughput, scalability, and inference cost across the platform.
• Strengthen agent safety: implement inherited permissions, guardrails, human-approval and escalation paths, auditability, and rollback so that autonomy stays bounded and is earned one workflow at a time.
• Collaborate with and support data scientists to understand the utility of the C3 Agentic AI Platform and define new requirements.
• Work with product owners to define and lead the development of longer-term platform capabilities.
• Mentor junior members of the team.

Benefits

• Excellent benefits
• Competitive compensation package
• Generous equity plan
• Funding for a fully-online master’s degree in computer science (with a cash bonus, raise, and stock grant on completion)
• Ongoing training and bonuses for completing select courses.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior