Senior AI Engineer - Agentic
Album VC is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology startups, with a portfolio spanning 2014 to 2026. It backs SaaS and enterprise software companies across sectors such as analytics, legal tech, fintech, HR, and consumer products.
About Album VC
Album VC is an early-stage technology venture capital firm with a long track record dating back to 2014. Its portfolio includes dozens of companies such as Filevine, Podium, Limble CMMS, Weave, TaxBit, Owlet, SalesRabbit, ObservePoint, and many others spanning enterprise software, SaaS, fintech, legal tech, and consumer technology. The firm's team includes partners Diogo Myrrha, John Mayfield, and Sid Krommenhoek, along with Wilson Sivertson in finance. Album VC supports its portfolio companies' growth, including hosting a shared jobs board where its portfolio companies list open roles across engineering, sales, and operations functions.
Skills
About the Role
You will build and scale Podium's AI Agent platform, a system that autonomously interacts with customers across voice, SMS, and chat channels, handling millions of conversations every month. You will design and implement APIs, services, and infrastructure that power multi-turn, cross-channel customer interactions, owning the full lifecycle from architecture through deployment and ongoing reliability. You will prototype rapidly, iterate using live interaction data, and continuously improve system performance and user experience. You will implement observability, monitoring, and operational best practices to keep production systems reliable, focusing on agent accuracy and latency. You will collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, and AI/ML scientists to deliver end-to-end features that power critical business outcomes.
Requirements
- 6-10+ years of professional software engineering experience with at least one modern language such as Go, Python, or Elixir
- 1+ years of professional experience deploying and maintaining AI agents in production environments that interact with tools, APIs, or real-world workflows
- Proven success designing and maintaining distributed or high-throughput systems
- Strong problem-solving ability and comfort navigating ambiguity in large-scale systems
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively across teams
- A willingness to work across the entire stack from infrastructure to APIs to user-facing components
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities
- Practical experience designing and implementing evaluations for LLM behavior including accuracy, safety, reliability, and cost monitoring
- Strong understanding of prompt design, context engineering, and guardrail strategies for dependable, interpretable agent behavior
- Experience with modern agent frameworks such as LangGraph, CrewAI, or AutoGen, including multi-step reasoning, memory, and orchestration patterns
- Hands-on experience with fine-tuning and data curation for improving model performance
Responsibilities
- Build and scale the AI Agent platform enabling high-volume, real-time conversational workflows with accuracy and low latency at scale
- Design and implement APIs, services, and infrastructure that power multi-turn, cross-channel customer interactions
- Own the full lifecycle: architecture, implementation, deployment, and ongoing reliability
- Prototype rapidly, iterate with live interaction data, and continuously improve system performance and user experience
- Implement observability, monitoring, and operational best practices to ensure reliability in production, focusing on agent accuracy and latency
- Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and AI/ML scientists to deliver end-to-end features that power critical business outcomes
Benefits
- Open and transparent culture
- Life insurance, long and short-term disability coverage
- Paid maternity and paternity leave
- Fertility Benefits
- Generous vacation time, plus three 4-day summer holiday weekends
- Excellent medical, dental, and vision benefits
- 401k Plan with company matching
- Bi-annual swag drops with cool Podium gear and apparel
- A stellar HQ (Utah) gym with local professional coaches and classes offered
- Onsite HQ (Utah) child care center, subsidized for employees
