Deployed Engineer (bay Area)

LangChain LangChain · Data AI · San Francisco, CA · Deployed Engineering

LangChain is seeking a Deployed Engineer to work on production AI agents, focusing on customer engagements, POCs, deployment, and operation of agent-based applications. This role involves co-architecting and co-building agents with customers, owning technical wins in pre-sales, and advising on architecture and best practices. The ideal candidate has experience designing agent-based applications beyond simple API calls and is comfortable working directly with customers to ensure successful deployment and operation of AI agents in production.

What you'd actually do

  1. Co-architect and co-build production AI agents with customer engineering teams
  2. Own the technical win in pre-sales by designing POCs, answering deep technical questions, and guiding evaluations
  3. Help customers deploy and operate agent-based applications such as conversational agents, research agents, and multi-step workflows
  4. Advise customers post-sale on architecture, best practices, and roadmap-level decisions
  5. Run technical demos, trainings, and workshops for developer audiences

Skills

Required

  • Python
  • JavaScript
  • systems fundamentals
  • designing agent-based or LLM-powered applications
  • multi-step workflows
  • orchestration
  • failure handling
  • customer interaction
  • explaining technical tradeoffs
  • building trust with developer audiences
  • taking responsibility for outcomes

Nice to have

  • deployed AI agents in production
  • LangChain
  • LangGraph
  • LLM evaluation
  • LLM observability
  • guardrails
  • cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure)
  • containers
  • Kubernetes concepts
  • shipped and operated production software

What the JD emphasized

  • systems that real teams depend on in production
  • operating AI agents in production, not just building demos
  • agent-based or LLM-powered applications beyond simple API calls, including multi-step workflows, orchestration, and failure handling

Other signals

  • building production AI agents
  • deploying and operating agent-based applications
  • customer-facing technical role