{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"282bf56ac29a1fb97bb4cfcb","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/282bf56ac29a1fb97bb4cfcb","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/282bf56ac29a1fb97bb4cfcb","title":"Software Engineer, Frontend (Agentic AI)","description":"About Sift\nSift is the data infrastructure platform for hardware engineering teams. We turn high-frequency telemetry into engineering insights for mission-critical machines: rockets, satellites, autonomous vehicles, energy systems, and defense platforms. Founded by former SpaceX engineers, we are building the review and analysis layer for the AI era of physical systems.\n\nAbout The Role:\nHardware programs generate far more telemetry than any team can review by hand. Sift Agents is our answer: AI agents that work alongside hardware engineers, investigating anomalies, reviewing test and flight data, and answering in minutes questions that used to take a day of scripting.\nThis role comes with real product ownership and autonomy. You will talk directly to customers to understand how they review their machines, decide what to build, and own it from first MVP through every iteration after it ships. The surface area is wide: one day you might be polishing the micro-interactions that make the chat experience feel great, the next you might be building a bespoke caching layer for the chat messages off the main JS thread. We’re heavy users of frontier agentic products ourselves and have strong opinions about what makes them great. Sift Agents is where we put those opinions to work.\nThis is a product engineering role, not a research role. Most of the work is the hard part of making agents feel dependable in the browser: streaming interactions, long-running tasks, rendering agent output over large real-time datasets, and showing engineers exactly what an agent did and why.\nIn This Role, You'll:\nTalk directly to customers and partner with product to turn real review workflows into agent capabilities: generating dashboards, writing analysis scripts, and surfacing insights buried in their telemetry\nBuild the frontend surfaces where Sift Agents live, and make them feel great\nDesign the interaction patterns of agentic UX: streaming responses, long-running tasks, interruptions, and showing an agent’s work so engineers can trust it\nRender an agent’s findings alongside the telemetry that backs them, and keep it fast even when the data is large\nPush the browser to its limits when the data demands it: Web Workers, OPFS-backed caching, and stepping outside React when the framework becomes the bottleneck\nContribute to the component library to keep agentic UI patterns consistent across the product\nCollaborate with backend and full stack engineers on the API design that powers agent sessions\nThe Skillset You'll Bring:\n3+ years of professional software engineering experience\nGet excited about owning a product area: talking to customers, deciding what to build, and shipping it\nHave built complex, high-performance web applications with technologies like React, NextJS, TypeScript, or similar\nHave an eye for detail: you notice the micro-interactions, latency, drops in FPS, and polish that separate good interfaces from exceptional ones\nAre curious about new AI products: you try new agents, models, and features as they ship, and have opinions about what makes them good\nIf this role excites you, apply even if you don’t check every box.\nBonus Points:\nShipped products to users at scale: large data volumes, significant active user counts, or deep technical complexity\nShipped LLM-powered features\nBuilt chat or agentic interfaces: streaming responses, tool-call rendering, long-running tasks\nA strong understanding of web performance optimization and browser rendering\nWorked with modern CSS (Tailwind) and component libraries (Radix UI) to build design systems\nUsed technical visualization tools (WebGL, D3.js, Apache ECharts), WebAssembly, and time-series data\nBuilt tools for technical users (dashboards, data-editing environments)\nA personal ecosystem of AI dev tooling: custom agents, skills, scripts, or workflows built to ship faster\nA background in scientific computing or hardware test and telemetry\nEngineering At SIFT:\nYou'll have the opportunity to help evolve and scale our platform because we're still in the early stages of building the product. Relevant technologies include:\nWeb frontend & backend: React, TypeScript, Redux, Tailwind, WebAssembly, D3.js, WebGL, and Go\nData: Parquet, Flink, Kafka, Redpanda, Beam, DuckDB, Timescale, QuestDB, InfluxDB, and Druid\nInfrastructure: GitHub Actions, AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform\n\nLocation:\nSift’s headquarters is in Marina Del Rey, CA (Next to LAX). We collaborate in person twice a week—on Mondays and Thursdays—and come together for a full week every two months. We are open to relocating candidates to LA or working from our San Francisco office for the right candidate.\nSalary range: $160,000 - $200,000 per year. Plus equity and benefits.\nEligibility:\nU.S. Person Required: Must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, or protected individual such as an asylee or refugee in compliance with ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations) / EAR (Export Administration Regulations) regulations.\nCompensation Range: $160K - $200K","company":"Sift Stack","rawCompany":"sift stack","city":"Millbrae","state":"CA","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-08-05T15:44:02.660Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"},{"code":"15-1254.00","title":"Web Developers","slug":"web-developers"},{"code":"15-1221.00","title":"Computer and Information Research Scientists","slug":"computer-and-information-research-scientists"}],"industries":[{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"},{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Software Engineer, Frontend (Agentic AI)","description":"About Sift\nSift is the data infrastructure platform for hardware engineering teams. We turn high-frequency telemetry into engineering insights for mission-critical machines: rockets, satellites, autonomous vehicles, energy systems, and defense platforms. Founded by former SpaceX engineers, we are building the review and analysis layer for the AI era of physical systems.\n\nAbout The Role:\nHardware programs generate far more telemetry than any team can review by hand. Sift Agents is our answer: AI agents that work alongside hardware engineers, investigating anomalies, reviewing test and flight data, and answering in minutes questions that used to take a day of scripting.\nThis role comes with real product ownership and autonomy. You will talk directly to customers to understand how they review their machines, decide what to build, and own it from first MVP through every iteration after it ships. The surface area is wide: one day you might be polishing the micro-interactions that make the chat experience feel great, the next you might be building a bespoke caching layer for the chat messages off the main JS thread. We’re heavy users of frontier agentic products ourselves and have strong opinions about what makes them great. Sift Agents is where we put those opinions to work.\nThis is a product engineering role, not a research role. Most of the work is the hard part of making agents feel dependable in the browser: streaming interactions, long-running tasks, rendering agent output over large real-time datasets, and showing engineers exactly what an agent did and why.\nIn This Role, You'll:\nTalk directly to customers and partner with product to turn real review workflows into agent capabilities: generating dashboards, writing analysis scripts, and surfacing insights buried in their telemetry\nBuild the frontend surfaces where Sift Agents live, and make them feel great\nDesign the interaction patterns of agentic UX: streaming responses, long-running tasks, interruptions, and showing an agent’s work so engineers can trust it\nRender an agent’s findings alongside the telemetry that backs them, and keep it fast even when the data is large\nPush the browser to its limits when the data demands it: Web Workers, OPFS-backed caching, and stepping outside React when the framework becomes the bottleneck\nContribute to the component library to keep agentic UI patterns consistent across the product\nCollaborate with backend and full stack engineers on the API design that powers agent sessions\nThe Skillset You'll Bring:\n3+ years of professional software engineering experience\nGet excited about owning a product area: talking to customers, deciding what to build, and shipping it\nHave built complex, high-performance web applications with technologies like React, NextJS, TypeScript, or similar\nHave an eye for detail: you notice the micro-interactions, latency, drops in FPS, and polish that separate good interfaces from exceptional ones\nAre curious about new AI products: you try new agents, models, and features as they ship, and have opinions about what makes them good\nIf this role excites you, apply even if you don’t check every box.\nBonus Points:\nShipped products to users at scale: large data volumes, significant active user counts, or deep technical complexity\nShipped LLM-powered features\nBuilt chat or agentic interfaces: streaming responses, tool-call rendering, long-running tasks\nA strong understanding of web performance optimization and browser rendering\nWorked with modern CSS (Tailwind) and component libraries (Radix UI) to build design systems\nUsed technical visualization tools (WebGL, D3.js, Apache ECharts), WebAssembly, and time-series data\nBuilt tools for technical users (dashboards, data-editing environments)\nA personal ecosystem of AI dev tooling: custom agents, skills, scripts, or workflows built to ship faster\nA background in scientific computing or hardware test and telemetry\nEngineering At SIFT:\nYou'll have the opportunity to help evolve and scale our platform because we're still in the early stages of building the product. Relevant technologies include:\nWeb frontend & backend: React, TypeScript, Redux, Tailwind, WebAssembly, D3.js, WebGL, and Go\nData: Parquet, Flink, Kafka, Redpanda, Beam, DuckDB, Timescale, QuestDB, InfluxDB, and Druid\nInfrastructure: GitHub Actions, AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform\n\nLocation:\nSift’s headquarters is in Marina Del Rey, CA (Next to LAX). We collaborate in person twice a week—on Mondays and Thursdays—and come together for a full week every two months. We are open to relocating candidates to LA or working from our San Francisco office for the right candidate.\nSalary range: $160,000 - $200,000 per year. Plus equity and benefits.\nEligibility:\nU.S. Person Required: Must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, or protected individual such as an asylee or refugee in compliance with ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations) / EAR (Export Administration Regulations) regulations.\nCompensation Range: $160K - $200K","datePosted":"2026-08-05T15:44:02.660Z","dateModified":"2026-08-05T15:44:02.660Z","hiringOrganization":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Sift Stack","sameAs":"https://jobsearcher.com"},"jobLocation":{"@type":"Place","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","addressLocality":"Millbrae","addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"US"}},"identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","name":"JobSearcher","value":"282bf56ac29a1fb97bb4cfcb"},"url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/282bf56ac29a1fb97bb4cfcb"}}