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About the Role

Okta is building the trusted, neutral infrastructure to enable organizations to safely embrace AI. This role involves building the harnesses and evaluations for Digital Workers, a new suite of autonomous agents for identity operations and security, with the opportunity to bring this product to Okta's 20,000+ customers.

Responsibilities

Build the agent harness for planning, tool use, memory, context compaction, interruption and recovery during long-running work.
Integrate OpenAI and Anthropic model APIs, selecting models based on measured quality, latency, and cost, with clear failure handling.
Evaluate existing harnesses and build only the missing pieces, keeping the harness connected to AWS workflow execution and approval state.
Keep authorization and sensitive writes behind application policy checks, requiring evidence of the resulting state before marking work complete.
Build evaluation datasets and replay tests for valid findings, access decisions, app setup, and AI agent onboarding.
Measure false positives, missed risks, unsafe actions, completion rate, and cost, turning production failures into regression tests.
Test prompt injection, stale evidence, conflicting instructions, and unsafe tool use, protecting tenant boundaries in retrieval and memory.
Improve prompts, retrieval, tools, and model routing, evaluating fine-tuning or other post-training methods when results justify them and data use is approved.

Requirements

Production builder with experience shipping AI software and understanding its real-world implications.
Careful evaluator who investigates failures and uses evidence to judge quality.
Strong owner who follows improvements through code, evaluation, release, and customer use.
Own an agent capability or evaluation pipeline with measurable improvements (Senior level).
Experience with Python FastAPI, AWS Step Functions, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, PostgreSQL on Amazon RDS, and pgvector.
Experience with OpenAI or Anthropic model APIs.
Experience with agent observability, security evaluations, or synthetic evaluation data is a plus.
Experience with fine-tuning, preference data, post-training evaluation, or model distillation using approved datasets is a plus.
Experience with identity and security workflows is a plus.
Foundation-model research experience is optional.

Skills

Strong Python engineering skills
Experience shipping an LLM application that uses tools
Hands-on experience building agent workflows or evaluation systems for tool-using LLM applications
Experience with Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI Codex SDK, Strands Agents, LangChain Deep Agents, LangGraph, or a custom implementation
Experience integrating model APIs, structured outputs, and asynchronous services
Depth in agent execution or evaluation systems
Ability to distinguish a plausible model response from a supported finding or verified action
Experience with ClickHouse or BigQuery (planned stack)
Open-source contributions
Agent observability
Security evaluations
Synthetic evaluation data
Fine-tuning
Preference data
Post-training evaluation
Model distillation
Identity and security workflows
Foundation-model research

Location

San Francisco Bay Area

Work Type

In-person onboarding
Full-time

Experience Level

Senior

Salary/Compensations

$165,000—$226,000 USD

Benefits

Equity (where applicable)
Bonus
Health, dental and vision insurance
401(k)
Flexible spending account
Paid leave (including PTO and parental leave)

About the Company

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human.
Okta is building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace AI.
We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence.
This is an opportunity to do career-defining work.
We're all in on this mission.
Our core stack is Python FastAPI, AWS Step Functions, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, PostgreSQL on Amazon RDS and pgvector.
We plan to add an agent harness and a dedicated analytics layer using ClickHouse or BigQuery.
Supporting Your Well-Being
Driving Social Impact
Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community
We are intentional about connection.
Our global community, spanning over 20 offices worldwide, is united by a drive to innovate.
Your journey begins with an immersive, in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate your impact and connect you to our mission and team from day one.

Equal Opportunity

Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran.
We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws.
If reasonable accommodation is needed to complete any part of the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use this Form to request an accommodation.
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