# Senior Software Engineer, Agent Platform (AI for the Planet)

**Company**: Allen Institute for AI (AI2)
**Location**: Seattle, WA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $146,880 - $220,320
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our team at the Allen Institute for AI, part of AI for the Planet. As a Senior Software Engineer, Agent Platform, you will work on building a platform for conservation groups, government agencies, and research organizations that want to run AI agents against their own systems.

Responsibilities:

- Build and evolve the platform's core capabilities and interfaces.

- Own the experience of authoring agents on the platform, from the first build all the way through production deployment.

- Build the UI, CLI, and SDK that authors use to deploy agents, run evals, and understand what happened.

- Develop our own internal agents on the platform and operate them in production.

- Write the docs, quickstarts, and example agents that get an outside developer from an idea to a running agent.

- Decide with the team what to work on next, and fix what blocks users before starting larger features.

- Write small tools and skills that make the team faster.

Requirements:

- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.

- Experience across the stack: web UIs, backend services, CLIs, and cloud tooling.

- A track record of shipping products to external users and talking with those users directly.

- Good judgment about priorities: you fix blockers first and keep scope small.

- Clean, tested code, and experience reviewing other people's code.

- Opinions about API design, and a preference for simple designs over clever ones.

- Daily use of AI coding tools such as Claude Code, including writing your own skills or tools.

- Willingness to write documentation as part of the work rather than after it.

- Clear technical communication with engineers and non-engineers.

Nice to Have:

- Experience building developer tools, CLIs, SDKs, or public APIs for outside users.

- Experience building or running LLM agents, including prompts, tools, and evals.

- Experience building evaluation or experimentation systems.

- Small or growth-stage company experience.

- Public technical work such as open source contributions, writing, or side projects.

- Willingness to travel on occasion.

Benefits:

- Generous bonus plans

- Competitive compensation package

- Opportunities for learning and growth

- Collaborative and transparent work environment

- Emphasis on healthy work/life balance

- Paid vacation and sick leave

- Family leave

## Skills

### Required
- software engineering
- web development
- cloud tooling
- API design
- AI coding tools

### Nice to have
- developer tools
- LLM agents
- evaluation systems
- open source contributions

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