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Agentic Native Software Engineer
Earlier-career or category-specialist who has spent the last 18 months in agentic systems and thinks natively in tools, plans, and reflection loops. Brings agent-first instincts to product surfaces.
Indicative comp$150K – $220K base (US, mid–senior)
Ranges are indicative US base salary at senior level. Actual offers depend on company stage, equity, and candidate strength.
What this role actually owns
- Design product surfaces around what the agent can do, not what an existing UI looks like.
- Implement the loop — planning, tool use, reflection, escalation.
- Make tool calls feel like first-class UI, not debug output.
- Iterate fast on prompt and tool design with eval feedback.
- Push back when the team is bolting an agent onto a workflow that doesn't need one.
What we screen for
- 3+ years engineering, with the last year focused on agentic systems.
- Has shipped an app where the agent is the primary interaction model.
- Strong product instincts — can explain why a particular UI choice helped or hurt.
- Comfortable iterating prompts, tools, and UX in tandem.
- Bonus: has open-sourced an agent or tool that other engineers use.
Sample job description
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Agentic Native Software Engineer
Builds applications where the agent is the product, not a feature — the kind of software that doesn't make sense in a pre-agent world.
You'll own:
- Design product surfaces around what the agent can do, not what an existing UI looks like.
- Implement the loop — planning, tool use, reflection, escalation.
- Make tool calls feel like first-class UI, not debug output.
- Iterate fast on prompt and tool design with eval feedback.
We're looking for:
- 3+ years engineering, with the last year focused on agentic systems.
- Has shipped an app where the agent is the primary interaction model.
- Strong product instincts — can explain why a particular UI choice helped or hurt.
- Comfortable iterating prompts, tools, and UX in tandem.
- Bonus: has open-sourced an agent or tool that other engineers use.