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Chestnut is hiring an Engineer - Agent Orchestration

About the Role

The role involves developing and maintaining orchestration frameworks that manage the behavior and interactions of autonomous agents. Responsibilities include improving system reliability, scalability, and performance while collaborating closely with research and product teams.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement core orchestration logic for agent-based systems
  • Build tools to monitor, debug, and manage agent workflows
  • Ensure system reliability during agent execution and task delegation
  • Optimize communication patterns between agents and external services
  • Develop APIs and interfaces for agent coordination
  • Collaborate with research teams to integrate new agent capabilities
  • Create scalable infrastructure to support growing agent workloads
  • Maintain documentation for orchestration components
  • Troubleshoot and resolve issues in live agent environments
  • Improve observability and logging across agent systems
  • Support deployment and rollback processes for agent updates
  • Work on fault tolerance and recovery mechanisms
  • Contribute to security practices for agent interactions
  • Refactor legacy orchestration components for better performance
  • Participate in code reviews and system design discussions
  • Assist in defining best practices for agent development
  • Integrate third-party services into agent workflows
  • Help shape the long-term architecture of agent systems
  • Respond to operational incidents involving agent failures
  • Ensure compliance with data handling standards
  • Collaborate on testing strategies for agent behavior
  • Evaluate new technologies for orchestration improvements
  • Support onboarding of new team members to the platform
  • Maintain alignment with product goals and timelines
  • Contribute to incident post-mortems and preventative planning

Compensation

Competitive salary with equity and benefits

Work Arrangement

Remote with optional in-person collaboration

Team

Small, agile team focused on building foundational agent infrastructure

Why This Role Matters

As autonomous agents become more capable, coordinating their actions reliably is critical. This role directly shapes how agents interact, delegate tasks, and recover from errors, forming the backbone of scalable AI workflows.

What You’ll Build

You’ll develop the infrastructure that manages agent lifecycles, handles task routing, and ensures consistent state across distributed processes. Your work will enable more complex agent behaviors and improve system resilience.

Available for qualified candidates

Required Skills
Large language models (llms)AI/MLPythonDistributed SystemsAPI DevelopmentSoftware ArchitecturePerformance Optimization
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Chestnut
Chestnut is building the first AI-native operating system for insurance distribution, transforming how the $1T+ insurance industry allocates its largest spend: sales and distribution. It replaces legacy systems with a modern, flexible platform that helps carriers automate complex workflows, optimize distribution spending, and unlock new growth.
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Posted 10 months ago