AI Agent Engineer

Job Description

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- **Location**: Remote (Singapore or China)
- **Company Overview**:
- Persevio is an AI-native startup on a mission to redefine the recruitment industry. Based in Singapore, we are building Viona—an intelligent AI recruiter designed to make high-quality hiring faster, more affordable, and fundamentally more human for both companies and candidates.
- We are an early-stage, venture-backed team that values results over activity and autonomy over bureaucracy. At Persevio, you aren’t just optimizing an existing machine; you are helping to build the default way the world hires.
- **Role Overview**:
- Join Persevio as our first dedicated Agent Engineer and technical partner to the CTO. In this pivotal role, you will lead the development of our core product, Viona, into a sophisticated, autonomous AI agent. You will own the AI agent layer end-to-end, creating advanced agentic loops, long-term memory systems, and high-impact user experiences.
- **Key Responsibilities**:
- **Architect the Agentic Future:** Lead the development of autonomous agents, implementing advanced context management, tool-calling capabilities, and long-term memory.
- **Drive AI-Native Development:** Leverage modern AI-enhanced development methodologies to maintain a high-velocity delivery cadence, shipping robust features at the speed of the evolving AI field.
- **Own the Product Lifecycle:** Act as a technical product owner by participating in feature definitions, shaping the UX of the chat experience, and ensuring technical decisions align with user needs.
- **Scale Technical Capabilities:** Explore and integrate new modalities (such as voice) and complex intent recognition to move Viona beyond text-based interactions.
- **Pragmatic Engineering:** Balance architectural integrity with startup speed, making high-judgment calls on when to build for scale and when to ship functional prototypes.
- **Requirements**:
- **Minimum/Core Requirements:**
- **AI-Native Mindset:** Deep proficiency in utilizing AI-enhanced software development methodologies to accelerate the development lifecycle and enhance delivery velocity.
- **Rapid Technical Adaptation:** Demonstrated ability to quickly absorb and apply emerging technologies, frameworks, and research (e.g., Agentic Loops, RAG, MCP).
- **Product-Led Engineering:** A strong interest in the "why" behind the code, with a track record of contributing to product definition and user experience.
- **Resilience in Ambiguity:** Experience thriving in high-growth, fast-paced environments where priorities can shift based on market feedback.
- **Language Proficiency:** Proficiency in Business Chinese is required to effectively collaborate and conduct technical discussions with our development team based in China.
- **Preferred/Bonus Requirements:**
- Demonstrated experience in developing Agent-based products or managing complex LLM context and memory.
- Proficiency in Golang and React, our current core technology stack.
- Familiarity with infrastructure, CLI tools, or Model Context Protocol (MCP).
- **Why you should be interested**:
- **Foundational Impact:** As the first AI hire, you will have a seat at the table in shaping the core engine of the company and the future of AI-native recruitment.
- **True Ownership:** Enjoy high autonomy and the opportunity to own a critical domain end-to-end, with more impact in six months than years at a traditional firm.
- **Bleeding-Edge Tech:** Work at the absolute forefront of how software is built today, moving beyond traditional coding into the era of autonomous agents.
- **Growth & Equity:** We offer a competitive equity package (0.5% - 1.5%) and a remote-first culture that values outcomes and direct communication.

Ready to build the future of autonomous recruitment? We’d love to hear from you.
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