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Circana

AI Staff Engineer

Circana

. Build AI solutions and agents end to end, including graphs, tools, MCP servers, and supporting services, from design through production and iteration .

Posted 9/25/2026full-timeUnited StatesLead💰 $160,000 - $200,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
CloudPythonReactSQLTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Build AI solutions and agents end to end, including graphs, tools, MCP servers, and supporting services, from design through production and iteration
  • Practice context management, prompt design, plan construction, tool result shaping, and guardrails
  • Build and maintain evaluation sets and regression suites
  • Investigate agent failures down to the step that caused them
  • Work directly with domain experts to collect practitioner questions, map them to capabilities, and resolve ambiguity
  • Debug from traces by reproducing, isolating, and fixing issues, then adding regression tests
  • Automate the development loop using commands, hooks, and subagents
  • Move decisions forward with working prototypes
  • Work in small pods alongside an architect and domain experts, owning engineering decisions and delivery outcomes

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Track record of building and shipping agentic systems that reached real users
  • Deep practical experience with context management, prompting, plan generation, structured outputs, and tool design
  • Strong Python skills
  • Productive in an unfamiliar codebase quickly
  • Experience running agentic workloads on a major cloud platform
  • Fluent daily use of agentic coding tools; Claude Code preferred
  • Clear written communication under time pressure
  • Demonstrated self-direction
  • Production experience across multiple model families preferred
  • Working TypeScript and solid SQL preferred
  • Front-end capability with React, TypeScript, and CopilotKit or similar preferred
  • Data engineering on large transactional datasets preferred
  • Evaluation and observability tooling experience preferred
  • Contributions to agent frameworks or MCP servers preferred
  • Successful completion of a background check may be required

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Bonus pay eligibility
  • Paid time off
  • Medical insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • 401(k)