Staff Engineer – Agentic AI | Republic Services
Location: REMOTE (US)
Type: Full-time
Source: HackerNews
About the Role
Republic Services is the second-largest environmental services company in North America, with ~40K employees, thousands of trucks, hundreds of facilities, and a mountain of operational data that has never had an AI layer on top of it. We have a backlog of hundreds of Agentic AI ideas that we need to deliver and a foundation of ontologies, evaluations, guardrails, etc., that we need to build.
We are hiring a Staff Engineer to be the first hire on this team. You will own the platform end-to-end (individual contributor role, not people management) and we plan to expand the team aggressively.
What You'll Work On
- Agent orchestration: Tool calling, planner/executor and multi-agent patterns, MCP/A2A integrations with enterprise systems.
- Enterprise context: Making data reliably available at inference time—retrieval, memory, hybrid search, reranking, and access controls.
- LLMOps: Evals and golden datasets, prompt/agent versioning, tracing, token and cost budgets, and CI/CD for agents.
- Safety: Managing prompt injection, data exfiltration, PII handling, human-in-the-loop, and audit logging in a regulated enterprise environment.
Requirements
- 7–10+ years building and scaling production systems.
- Recent, hands-on GenAI/agentic work in production (not just demos).
- Experience shipping agents or LLM pipelines at scale.
- Solid data chops: vector stores, chunking, hybrid search, and knowing when retrieval is the wrong answer.
- Cloud experience (primarily AWS / Bedrock); comfortable with both containers and serverless.
- Track record of technical leadership and mentoring without needing a manager title.
Nice to have: LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, PydanticAI, GraphRAG, knowledge graphs, LangFuse/LangSmith, and multimodal experience.
Compensation & Benefits
- Salary: $175k (midpoint)
- Bonus: 20% annual target bonus
- Benefits: 401(k) with company match, ESPP, medical/dental/vision, and PTO.
- Logistics: Remote eligible (prefer AZ timezones +/- 1).
- Note: Not sponsorship eligible.
How to Apply
Email jgardner@republicservices.com directly with the most interesting agent you've shipped.