Staff AI Engineer

This is a remote position.

HARD REQUIREMENT — hands-on AWS Bedrock AgentCore experience, OR a multi-agent solution the candidate DEPLOYED to AWS (multiple coordinating agents on real AWS infrastructure; frameworks count when they shipped to AWS; single-agent chatbots, RAG-only, and notebook-only work do NOT clear). US only. Staff AI Engineer for Robots & Pencils. One opening. Fully remote US role with approximately 20% travel (in-person interview and one-week onboarding, expenses covered); start date ASAP. Compensation: up to $230,000. Authorization: must be legally authorized to work in the US; no sponsorship. This is a senior backend/AI engineering role in a mature production AI environment with real enterprise users. The role focuses on Python and Node.js backend engineering, AWS-native serverless architecture, DynamoDB single-table design, and production-grade AI platform engineering: LLM function/tool calling, multi-agent orchestration, vector databases/OpenSearch, RAG, and streaming LLM responses. Responsibilities include building and maintaining backend services, developing APIs, contributing to full-stack integration, supporting workflow orchestration and event-driven processes, improving reliability, troubleshooting production systems, supporting deployment/release processes, participating in code reviews, mentoring, and taking end-to-end ownership of features.