Senior Software Engineer, Agentic AI Platform

C3 Ai • Redwood City, CA

11h

About The Position

C3 AI is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the C3 Agentic AI Platform team. This role involves building the system that enables AI agents to observe, reason, decide, and act on live operational data across critical industries. The focus is on production AI where accuracy, performance, and safety are paramount. 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 the rapidly evolving AI field. This position requires close collaboration with product owners and data scientists, with responsibility for the entire software engineering lifecycle. The agents developed operate in high-consequence environments, making accuracy, performance, and safety the core product.

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) — orchestrating engineering workflows across multiple agents working in parallel, decomposing work, delegating, coordinating, and reviewing output with the judgment to catch subtle bugs, security issues, and architectural drift.
• In-depth understanding of machine learning algorithms.
• 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 is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build the systems, tools, and frameworks that enable data scientists and developers to create, deploy, and operate agentic AI applications on the C3 Agentic AI Platform.
• Apply 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 by building evaluations, grounding, and feedback loops to measure and improve correctness, reduce hallucination, and track override rates in production.
• Drive agent performance by optimizing latency, throughput, scalability, and inference cost across the platform.
• Strengthen agent safety by implementing inherited permissions, guardrails, human-approval and escalation paths, auditability, and rollback mechanisms.
• 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