Guild.ai · 11 hours ago
Founding Engineer — Agent Control Plane
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior LevelGuild.ai is building the control plane to support the use of AI agents in teams and companies. As a Founding Engineer focused on the Agent Control Plane, you will design and build systems that manage and govern AI agents in production environments while working on distributed systems, security, and infrastructure orchestration.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)SoftwareDeveloper PlatformDeveloper ToolsGenerative AI
Responsibilities
Systems for running and managing autonomous agents
Multi-agent coordination and lifecycle management
Observability, tracing, evaluation, and reliability tooling
State management and memory systems
Secure execution of agent tools (e.g., GitHub, Slack, internal APIs)
Tool abstraction layers and permission boundaries
Sandboxed and policy-controlled tool invocation
Extensible plugin systems
Fine-grained, role-based access control (RBAC) and policy systems
Enterprise-grade auth (OAuth, SAML, SCIM, API keys)
Multi-tenant architecture
Secure identity propagation between users, agents, and tools
Agent permission scoping and guardrails
Data isolation and tenant separation
Audit logging and traceability
SOC2-minded system design
Secure execution environments
Deploying and operating systems on GCP, AWS, and Azure
Kubernetes-native systems (GKE today)
Infrastructure as Code
Scalable, resilient backend services
Deep integration with foundation models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google
Model routing and abstraction layers
Cost control and performance optimization
Structured tool calling and agent frameworks
Qualification
Required
Experience building distributed backend systems
Deep understanding of authentication & authorization systems
Experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructure
Experience integrating with LLM APIs or building agentic systems
Strong Python and/or TypeScript proficiency
Comfort designing multi-tenant SaaS systems
Preferred
Experience building developer platforms
Experience with security-critical systems
Experience in compliance-aware environments (SOC2, ISO, etc.)
Experience with GitHub/Slack/Enterprise API integrations
Background in infrastructure tooling or control planes
Company
Guild.ai
AI, Software Development
Founded in 2025
2-10 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$0M2025-09-01Seed· $0M
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