Senior AI/ML Engineer II

Overview

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Dive in and do the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. We’re building the next generation of agentic applications on the GradientAI platform—where multi-agent systems of LLM-powered agents collaborate, make decisions, and adapt at scale. You’ll be part of the team designing robust, scalable, and safe agent workflows that empower developers to build sophisticated AI-driven systems with confidence.

If you have a growth mindset, naturally like to think big and bold, and are energized by the fast-paced environment of a true industry disruptor, you’ll find your place here. We value winning together—while learning, having fun, and making a profound difference for the dreamers and builders in the world.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Architect and deliver production-grade agentic systems: multi-agent orchestration, workflow management, state/memory handling, and runtime governance.
• Design and orchestrate modular, LLM-powered agents (e.g., Planner, Tool Executor, QA, Validator) using scalable orchestration patterns (sequential, router, parallel, map-reduce) with clear handoff protocols, shared memory, and structured communication.
• Define and enforce guardrails and governance: prompt sanitization, access control, audit trails, threat modeling, and strategies for injection defense, hallucination control, misuse prevention, and compliance.
• Establish evaluation and monitoring methods for multi-agent systems: accuracy, safety, cost, and latency—leveraging observability practices (logs, telemetry, tracing, capturing intermediate outputs) and feedback loops to continuously refine performance.
• Build fine-tuning and deployment pipelines: supervised fine-tuning, inference optimization, post-deployment updates, and scaling hardened systems with retries, error handling, and fairness checks.
• Rapidly define and deliver MCPs: identify minimal agent roles and orchestration logic, validate quickly, and expand iteratively into robust multi-agent applications.
• Integrate seamlessly with the GradientAI platform: ensuring agents leverage DO services (inference, KBs, Functions, storage, networking) for scale, reliability, and cost-efficiency.
• Apply strong software engineering practices: testing, CI/CD, code quality, scalable architectures, and distributed system design.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, infra teams, design and UX, and other engineers to ship features that developers adopt and trust.
• Participate and support in operational excellence.
• Independently ship product features from planning to launch to maintenance with high autonomy.

What You’ll Add To DigitalOcean

• Proven experience in software development at scale, with strong foundations in distributed systems, system design, and cloud-native engineering.
• Hands-on experience in shipping AI/ML systems into production.
• Drive observability, guardrails, and evaluation best practices for multi-agent workflows, ensuring visibility, safety, and continuous improvement.
• Partner closely with UX and design teams to ensure agentic features deliver simple, intuitive, and developer-first experiences.
• Contribute to platform-level improvements (component libraries, reusable tools, design systems) that accelerate adoption and developer productivity.
• Mentor and support teammates in applying guardrails, governance, and orchestration patterns consistently across projects.
• Ability to balance engineering trade-offs (reliability, latency, cost) with business outcomes.
• 5+ years of relevant industry experience in software engineering and deploying agentic AI systems in production within high-growth environments.

Why You’ll Like Working For DigitalOcean

• We innovate with purpose. You’ll be part of a cutting-edge technology company with an upward trajectory, simplifying cloud and AI so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world.
• We prioritize career development. You’ll work with some of the smartest people in the industry, and have access to resources for growth and learning.
• We care about your well-being. We offer a competitive array of benefits, with specifics varying by location.
• We reward our employees. Salary range is competitive and may include bonuses and equity, with opportunities for the Employee Stock Purchase Program.
• We value diversity and inclusion. We are an equal-opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.
• This is a remote role.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering

Industries

• Internet

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