JobsSoftware Engineer - Agent Harness
Location
Santa Clara, CA, Hillsboro, OR, Folsom, CA, Phoenix, AZ
Type
Full-time
Posted
6/16/2026
Compensation
$170,500 - $315,490 per year
Undergraduate with 5+ Years of Experience
Master's with 5+ Years of Experience
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·FY 2025Job description
This role focuses on building the harness for an agent framework that combines local and cloud intelligence. The team aims to create a model-agnostic system that efficiently manages context, tool invocation, and scheduling. You will partner with the SRE/Production squad to ensure reliable operation in production. The position emphasizes curiosity and growth in architecting frontier agent harnesses and understanding LLM agents.
Requirements
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or a related STEM field
- 5+ years of software development experience
- Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, or C++
- Comfort with asynchronous programming, concurrency, and process management
- Experience building projects that call external tools or APIs in a loop and handle failure modes
- Ability to read and understand unfamiliar codebases and runtime environments
Responsibilities
- Design and build the agent loop including planning, tool invocation, and observation handling
- Implement tool integrations for file I/O, terminal execution, and web services
- Develop context management strategies for summarization and memory usage
- Implement scheduling and automatic background task execution
- Ensure the harness remains model-agnostic for local and cloud models
- Design security mechanisms for the agent framework
- Make the agent loop observable and debuggable through tracing and replay capabilities
Benefits
- Intel offers a comprehensive benefits package including competitive pay, stock programs, healthcare coverage, retirement plans, paid time off, parental leave, and programs supporting employee wellbeing and professional development.
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