Staff Engineer, Software Development Engineering (Apps)

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We are hiring a Staff Engineer to join our AI Platform team building and operating our enterprise AI platform for engineering workflows. This role is focused on the foundational platform layer - Agentic systems, MCP ecosystem, LLM gateway, memory and knowledge infrastructure, and platform observability - that powers AI applications across Flash Product's Group. Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Platform Development: Design, build, and maintain core components of the Nexus platform, including agentic orchestration (LangGraph / Deep Agents), MCP servers and gateway integrations, memory and knowledge systems, and the LLM gateway layer. Agentic Systems: Develop and extend multi-agent workflows, tool-calling pipelines, and conversational AI experiences across Nexus Builder, Nexus Chat, and purpose-built applications. MCP Ecosystem: Build OIDC-compliant MCP servers that expose enterprise data and tools (Jira, test management, internal systems) to agents in a secure, governed way. Reliability & Observability: Drive platform stability through environment separation, monitoring, tracing, evaluation pipelines, and incident response practices. Technical Leadership: Own technical decisions within assigned workstreams, conduct design reviews, and mentor engineers on agentic patterns, LLM application design, and production AI best practices. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with InfoSec, Cloud Infrastructure, IAM, and product engineering teams to ship platform capabilities that meet enterprise requirements. Continuous Innovation: Stay current with advances in LLMs, agentic frameworks, and AI infrastructure; evaluate and integrate new technologies into the Nexus roadmap. Required: Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science, Computer Science, or a related field. Approximately 5 years of professional software engineering experience, with demonstrated impact building production AI/ML systems or developer platforms. Strong proficiency in Python; working knowledge of TypeScript/JavaScript and React. Hands-on experience with modern AI/ML frameworks: LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, PyTorch or TensorFlow, and the Hugging Face ecosystem. Practical understanding of LLMs, transformers, embeddings, RAG architectures, and agentic design patterns. Experience integrating with LLM providers and gateways (Anthropic, OpenAI, Portkey, or equivalent), and familiarity with the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Solid grasp of distributed systems, microservices, REST/GraphQL APIs, and event-driven architectures. Experience deploying and operating workloads on Kubernetes with Docker, including hybrid on-prem / cloud topologies. Comfort with relational (PostgreSQL), NoSQL (MongoDB, Elasticsearch), in-memory (Redis / Valkey), and vector databases. Familiarity with OAuth / OIDC, SSO, and enterprise security and compliance practices. Preferred: Strong written and verbal communication, with the ability to articulate technical tradeoffs to engineering and leadership audiences. Proven ability to lead initiatives end-to-end, work independently, and collaborate effectively across teams. Bias for action, ownership mindset, and a track record of shipping in fast-moving environments. Problem Solving: Demonstrated ability to decompose ambiguous problems, design pragmatic solutions, and debug complex issues across the AI/ML and infrastructure stack. Summary of skill sets: Programming: Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, React, GraphQL AI/ML & Agents: LangGraph, LangChain, LlamaIndex, PyTorch/TensorFlow, RAG, MCP, agentic frameworks Platform & Infra: Kubernetes, Docker, microservices, REST APIs, CI/CD Data: RDBMS (PostgreSQL), NoSQL (MongoDB, Elasticsearch), in-memory (Redis/Valkey), vector databases Security & Identity: OAuth, OIDC, SSO, enterprise auth patterns Sandisk is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees and will not discriminate against any applicant or employee based on their race, color, ancestry, religion (including religious dress and grooming standards), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), gender (including a person's gender identity, gender expression, and gender-related appearance and behavior, whether or not stereotypically associated with the person's assigned sex at birth), age, national origin, sexual orientation, medical condition, marital status (including domestic partnership status), physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, protected medical and family care leave, Civil Air Patrol status, military and veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. We also prohibit harassment of any individual on any of the characteristics listed above. Our non-discrimination policy applies to all aspects of employment. We comply with the laws and regulations set forth in the " Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal " poster. Our pay tran

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