Agentic Engineer ($160k – $220k + Equity) at a16z-backed AI sports platform

Job Description

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Job Title

Agentic Engineer

Salary

$160k – $220k + Equity

Company Description

a16z-backed AI sports platform led by the co-founder of Caviar

Job Description

You will build and operate production-grade agentic systems that serve as conversational companions for diehard sports fans. Moving beyond demos, you'll own the orchestration layer, tool design, and evaluation harnesses. This is an opportunity to solve long-horizon reasoning challenges using a cutting-edge stack including Google ADK, MCP servers, and Logfire.

Location

San Francisco, USA

Why this role is remarkable

Work at the intersection of AI and sports with a team backed by a16z and led by a repeat founder with a major exit to DoorDash.
Ship agents that handle real-world complexity, moving from simple chat interfaces to proactive systems that compound user context and provide personalized insights.
High-autonomy environment where your architectural decisions and tool designs reach real users within the same week.

What You Will Do

Design and ship agent loops using Google ADK that handle long-horizon tasks across tool calls and partial failures.
Treat tool design as a first-class engineering discipline by building MCP servers that expose sports data and user context to agents.
Establish rigorous evaluation and observability standards using trajectory evals, ground-truth datasets, and production tracing via Logfire.

The ideal candidate

Has 5+ years of software engineering experience with at least 1.5 years shipping production-grade agentic systems or LLM products.
Demonstrates deep discipline in evals and observability, reaching for traces and regression harnesses rather than "vibes-based" prompt tweaking.
Possesses strong SWE fundamentals in Python and distributed systems with a workflow optimized for coding-agent tools like Cursor or Claude Code.

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