Senior Engineering Manager/Principal Engineer, Smart Agents & Agentic Systems

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of smart agent platforms, including orchestration and deployment.
• Define and implement systems for agent skill creation, composition, and lifecycle management.
• Build and evolve low-level agent infrastructure, including planning, reasoning, memory, and tool-use capabilities.
• Architect frameworks for embedding models into applications and enabling agents to interact with business logic.
• Manage and mentor a team of engineers while contributing directly to critical system design and implementation.
• Establish best practices for agent reliability, observability, evaluation, and performance optimization.
• Partner with senior leadership to shape agentic platform strategy and roadmap.

Requirements

• Extensive experience building production-grade agentic systems or AI platforms with autonomous capabilities.
• Strong hands-on expertise in low-level agent design, including planning, memory, and reasoning systems.
• Strong programming skills in Python with experience building scalable backend systems for AI applications.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, APIs, and real-time execution environments.
• Experience designing and operating systems on cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Proven experience managing and mentoring engineers while remaining deeply hands-on in technical development.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working at companies building agentic infrastructure, autonomous systems, or AI-native products.
• Deep knowledge of LLMs, NLP, generative AI, or multi-agent system design.
• Experience building agent frameworks, tool ecosystems, or skill-based architectures.
• Experience designing systems for agent memory, retrieval, and contextual reasoning.
• Experience operating systems on Kubernetes or similar orchestration platforms.
• Experience building AI systems in enterprise SaaS or large-scale product environments.

About the Company

Wand turns AI into labor. We have built the world’s first Agentic Labor Infrastructure, enabling governments and global enterprises to create, manage, and scale digital workforces. Our mission is to integrate agent ecosystems into the core of work and business, unlocking a generational leap in the global economy.