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About the Role
Okta is building Digital Workers, a new suite of autonomous agents for identity operations and security. This role offers the opportunity to shape a product that will be used by over 20,000 customers, combining startup pace with the resources of a public company. You will build the harnesses and evaluations that make these agents reliable, investigating risk, using tools, and completing tasks across enterprise systems.
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
- Strong Python engineering skills and experience shipping an LLM application that uses tools.
- Hands-on experience building agent workflows or evaluation systems for tool-using LLM applications.
- Experience integrating model APIs, structured outputs, and asynchronous services.
- Depth in agent execution or evaluation systems, with working code and failure analysis that can be explained.
- Ability to distinguish a plausible model response from a supported finding or verified action.
Skills
- Python
- FastAPI
- AWS Step Functions
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
- PostgreSQL
- Amazon RDS
- pgvector
- OpenAI API
- Anthropic API
- Claude Agent SDK
- OpenAI Codex SDK
- Strands Agents
- LangChain Deep Agents
- LangGraph
- ClickHouse
- BigQuery
- 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
Experience Level
- Staff
Salary/Compensations
- $194,000—$267,000 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
- Okta is building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace the new era of AI.
- Okta's global community spans over 20 offices worldwide, 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.
- Notice for New York City Applicants & Employees: Okta may use Automated Employment Decision Tools (AEDT), as defined by New York City Local Law 144, that use artificial intelligence, machine learning, or other automated processes to assist in our recruitment and hiring process. In accordance with NYC Local Law 144, if you are an applicant or employee residing in New York City, please click here to view our full NYC AEDT Notice.