Job description
Description
📍 Location: Remote (Work from Anywhere)
🗓️ Date: The expected start window for this position is October 2025 – November 2025
⏰ Working Hours: 4 to 5 hours per day
🌍 Time Zone: Available for meetings in US time zones.
Are you a freelance Senior AI Agent Engineer looking to craft large-scale software that drives business growth and users love?
😀 At Make, we’re proud to have created award-winning software that’s been used by billions of people, with 25+ featured placements in the App Store and Google Play. Our clients have real end users and real challenges, and they view us as trusted advisors and thought leaders. Beyond agent orchestration and system design, this role is all about building intelligent AI agents that proactively coach, recommend, and make users love using our products.
If you have a genuine enthusiasm for software, and thrive in environments that encourage creativity, self-management, and a strong focus on culture, we want to hear from you! 💯
Requirements
What You’ll Do
Design, build, and deploy AI agents that deliver proactive coaching and personalized recommendations in a content platform
Architect scalable and reliable systems with strong foundations in memory management, retrieval (RAG/Graph RAG), and stateful agent design.
Implement evaluation and observability pipelines (scorecards, A/B tests, tracing, monitoring) to ensure reliability, groundedness, and safety.
Proactively identify risks and bottlenecks across system performance, latency, and cost; introduce solutions before they impact delivery.
Collaborate with product and backend engineers to ship high-impact AI features.
Stay ahead of emerging AI advancements and integrate them into Make’s development process.
What You’ll Bring
Engineering foundation in Backend development, Machine Learning, Data Science, or related fields
Strong background in AI agent development and architectural planning.
Hands-on experience with LangGraph and LangChain
Proven ability to design and iterate on complex systems
A product mindset to both execute and anticipate user needs and system challenges
Creative, independent thinking to challenge ideas and propose innovative solutions
Bonus Skills (Nice to Have)
Experience with RAG/Graph RAG, hybrid memory systems, and recommendation engines.
Familiarity with evaluation frameworks, regression/A/B testing, and agent observability tools.
Background in ML/DL fine-tuning, adapters, rerankers, or advanced information retrieval.
Security/privacy best practices: red-teaming, PII protection, RBAC/ABAC.
Familiarity with production-ready systems: CI/CD, autoscaling, caching, streaming architectures.
About Make (letsMake.com)
Make is a design and engineering agency based in Texas, with team members worldwide. We’re proud to have created award-winning software that has been featured in TechCrunch, Mashable, US Weekly, CBS News, Texas Monthly, and The Today Show. A multi-disciplinary team of engineers and designers, we are passionate about creating world-class software that people enjoy using. At the end of the day, more than our work life, it’s our life’s work 💙.
We are a team of talented individuals who take ownership of the entire project beyond their own craft. We value proactive communication, autonomy, and initiative. You’ll be joining a team of ‘Managers of One’—people who set their own direction, identify what needs to be done, and dive in without waiting for permission 💯.
We’re not only passionate about our craft but also about our culture. We deeply believe that work is purposeful, and that culture is one of the most important parts of any team. Our culture informs our decisions, sets our standards, and guides our interactions 😀.
