About the Role
As a Staff Software Engineer on the MarTech Engineering Team, you'll be a forward-deployed engineer embedded in the marketing organization, building production AI agents to solve real campaign, content, social, ABM, and performance problems. You will work closely with marketing domain experts, learning their workflows and systems to turn their expertise into live agents. Your responsibilities span the full lifecycle, from rapid prototyping and validating ideas with SMEs to building integrations for pilot programs and hardening them into production-grade agents. You will also identify and translate gaps in existing systems or data into requirements for the platform team. This role requires deep technical judgment regarding build vs. wait decisions, abstraction of solutions into reusable skills, and ensuring agent outputs are safe, brand-aligned, and factually correct. Success is measured by the volume and quality of work performed by agents in production.
Responsibilities
- Embed with marketing SMEs across campaigns, property marketing, content production, social, ABM, and performance intelligence to design and ship agents that do real work.
- Build, deploy, and operate production marketing AI agents that reason over regional context, brand guidelines, and intent data, invoking tools to draft content, configure campaigns, monitor performance, and recommend optimizations.
- Design and grow the Marketing Domain Skills Library, creating composable LLM workflows as reusable primitives.
- Build integrations against marketing systems, directly when needed to unblock a pilot, and through Marketing MCP servers.
- Translate integration and capability gaps into clear, prioritized requirements for the platform team.
- Own reliability, observability, evaluation, and cost efficiency of LLM-powered workflows in production.
- Design multi-agent orchestration patterns for coordination, composition, and escalation.
- Set the bar for the agent pod by defining the playbook for agent development and raising technical quality.
- Represent MarTech Engineering externally to leadership, customers, and the engineering community.
- Publish learnings through internal write-ups, engineering blog posts, and conference talks.
- Stay at the frontier of agent engineering and bring best ideas back to the team.
- Drive innovation with a willingness to experiment and confront complex problems.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
- Proficient in English, both written and verbal, for remote and asynchronous work.
- 5+ years of software engineering experience in production systems, including significant time integrating against enterprise APIs.
- Hands-on experience with modern LLM APIs across providers, including prompt engineering, tool use, structured outputs, and context engineering.
- Experience designing agent systems: multi-step reasoning, tool orchestration, memory, error recovery, and human-in-the-loop escalation paths.
- Experience with the hard parts of agent engineering: hallucination grounding, tool reliability, evaluation, cost/latency tradeoffs, prompt drift, and production readiness.
- Experience building RAG systems: embeddings, vector stores, retrieval optimization, and grounding.
- Experience deploying LLM-powered services or agents to production cloud environments, understanding operational realities.
- Energized by embedding directly with non-technical domain experts, translating vague problem statements into shippable scope, and learning unfamiliar domains.
- Pragmatic bias for shipping, knowing when a brittle workaround is appropriate.
- Ability to translate fluently between technical levels.
- Strong analytical and interpersonal skills, with a proven ability to thrive and collaborate in dynamic, product-focused, distributed teams.
- Proactive approach to problem-solving and willingness to acquire new skills.
- Confidence in taking ownership of projects from start to finish.
- Ability to make coworkers feel included in every interaction.
- Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.
Skills
- Prompt engineering
- Tool use / function calling
- Structured outputs
- Context engineering
- Multi-step reasoning
- Tool orchestration
- Memory
- Error recovery
- Human-in-the-loop escalation
- Hallucination grounding
- Tool reliability
- Evaluation
- Cost and latency tradeoffs
- Prompt drift
- RAG systems
- Embeddings
- Vector stores
- Retrieval optimization
- Cloud environments
- Auth
- Networking
- Secrets management
- Observability
- Rollback
- Cost monitoring
- Analytical skills
- Interpersonal skills
- Problem-solving
Location
- On-site – Chicago, IL
- On-site – San Francisco, CA
Work Type
- On-site
- Remote
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 5+ years of software engineering experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent work experience
Salary/Compensations
- 180,000.00 – 190,000.00 USD per year
Benefits
- 401(k) plan with matching company contributions
- Comprehensive Medical, Dental & Vision Care
- Paid parental leave at 100% of salary
- Paid Time Off and Company Holidays
- Early access to earned wages through Daily Pay
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