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ClickUp is hiring a senior backend-oriented AI engineer for its AI Platform team to build multi-agent frameworks and orchestration capabilities. The role centers on integrating multiple LLM providers, designing scalable agent workflows with tools such as LangGraph, and enabling coordinated multi-agent behavior. Responsibilities also include building rigorous AI evaluation systems, integrating search, and addressing privacy, anonymization, and data-protection requirements. The engineer will partner closely with product, design, and frontend teams to deliver an effective agent-building experience. This is a high-impact senior engineering position requiring strong technical judgment and current applied-AI expertise.
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I would define clear agent roles, typed input and output contracts, shared-state and message-passing patterns, and explicit workflow graphs. I would add guardrails for tool permissions, timeouts, retries, idempotency, observability, and human escalation so that coordination remains reliable as complexity grows.
I would create scenario-based evaluations that measure task success, handoff quality, tool-use accuracy, latency, cost, safety, and failure recovery at both agent and system levels. I would combine curated golden datasets, adversarial cases, simulation, automated regression testing, and human review for ambiguous or high-impact outcomes.
I assess capability on the target task, context capacity, structured-output reliability, latency, cost, availability, data-handling requirements, and vendor-lock-in risk. I use an abstraction layer and benchmark representative workloads so models can be selected or routed dynamically based on quality, risk, and operational constraints.
I would apply data minimization, tenant isolation, role-based access controls, encryption, retention controls, audit logs, and strict tool-scoping. Before sending data to models or retrieval systems, I would use classification and redaction where appropriate, document data flows, and ensure the design supports applicable consent and deletion requirements.
I would build a retrieval layer that indexes authorized content with strong metadata and permission filtering, then use hybrid lexical and vector retrieval with reranking where valuable. The agent should receive grounded, cited context, while telemetry tracks retrieval quality, answer faithfulness, and cases where the system should ask a clarifying question rather than infer an answer.
At ClickUp, we’re building the future of work: the first truly converged AI workspace unifying tasks, docs, chat, calendar, and enterprise search, all supercharged by context-driven AI. We are an AI-native company. Every team member is expected to leverage AI daily, and we evaluate AI fluency as part of our hiring process. Join us and help redefine what’s possible. 🚀
Role Overview:
We are seeking a skilled and experienced Senior AI Engineer – Multi-Agent Frameworks to join our AI Platform team. In this role, you will play a pivotal part in building a cutting-edge platform that empowers our users to create and deploy sophisticated intelligent agents, with a key focus on enabling collaborative and multi-agentic behaviors. This is a backend-focused role that requires deep expertise in AI, large language models (LLMs), and orchestration software.
Key Responsibilities:
Design, develop, and maintain a robust platform to enable users to create and manage AI agents and their interactions.
Integrate and work with multiple LLMs, ensuring seamless orchestration and scalability for both individual and coordinated agent operations.
Leverage orchestration frameworks like LangGraph and others to build complex workflows and pipelines that support diverse agent functionalities, including frameworks for multi-agent coordination.
Develop and implement evaluation frameworks for testing AI agents in challenging and complex scenarios, focusing on individual performance and system-level dynamics.
Stay at the forefront of AI advancements, incorporating the latest research and technologies into our platform to enhance agent capabilities and collaboration.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and frontend engineers, to deliver a seamless user experience for building and deploying intelligent systems.
Address challenging AI privacy scenarios, ensuring compliance with data protection regulations and best practices within agent-based applications.
Contribute to improving search capabilities and integrating them into the AI platform to provide agents with essential information access.
Qualifications:
Proven experience working with multiple LLMs (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere, etc.) and understanding their strengths and limitations.
Expertise in orchestration software like LangGraph or similar frameworks used for building and managing agent workflows.
Strong background in developing evaluation frameworks for AI systems, particularly in complex testing environments.
Deep understanding of AI and machine learning fundamentals, with a focus on backend engineering.
Passion for staying updated with the latest developments in AI and applying them to real-world problems, particularly in the realm of agent technologies.
Experience with challenging AI privacy scenarios, including data anonymization, secure data handling, and compliance.
Experience with search technologies and their integration into AI systems.
Experience building or deploying Multi-Agent Frameworks or Multi-Agent Systems.
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Equal Opportunity Employer
ClickUp is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.
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