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We’re seeking an Agent Engineer to design and build agentic features in our platform, including document understanding, advanced RAG, and customer support automation.
In this role, you will develop not only the agent components themselves, but also the Friendli Agent API, which serves as the core developer interface for building and extending agent applications.
You will also build agent applications as production-ready examples of how agents can solve real-world problems.
These applications will be primarily written in Python and will serve as reference implementations for our customers and community.
We are looking for a hands-on engineer who is passionate about building agent systems and making AI easy for developers to adopt.
The ideal candidate is comfortable creating agent applications that showcase what is possible, is curious about and experienced with open-source models, and enjoys turning them into reliable, high-impact features.
We’re seeking an Agent Engineer to design and build agentic features in our platform, including document understanding, advanced RAG, and customer support automation. In this role, you will develop not only the agent components themselves, but also the Friendli Agent API, which serves as the core developer interface for building and extending agent applications. You will also build agent applications as production-ready examples of how agents can solve real-world problems.
These applications will be primarily written in Python and will serve as reference implementations for our customers and community. We are looking for a hands-on engineer who is passionate about building agent systems and making AI easy for developers to adopt. The ideal candidate is comfortable creating agent applications that showcase what is possible, is curious about and experienced with open-source models, and enjoys turning them into reliable, high-impact features.
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Experience with document understanding pipelines (e.g., OCR, RAG, summarization, structured extraction)
Familiarity with Kubernetes or container orchestration in production
Built or contributed to agent frameworks, SDKs, or CLIs
Have worked in a startup or fast-paced environments with ownership and ambiguity
Passion for developer experience and enabling AI adoption
FriendliAI is building the world’s best AI inference platform that makes large language and multi-modal models fast, efficient, and deployable at scale. We power high-throughput, low-latency AI workloads for organizations worldwide and integrate directly with Hugging Face, giving developers instant access to over 500,000 open-source models.
We are a small, fast-moving team doing work that matters at one of the most exciting moments in the history of technology. With our world-class inference engine, we are building a platform that the AI industry can actually rely on.
FriendliAI is a private AI inference platform for enterprises deploying, scaling, and monitoring large language and multimodal models.
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