Staff Engineer – Agentic AI

About this role

Republic Services | Staff Engineer – Agentic AI | REMOTE (US) | Full-time | $175k is our salary midpoint + 20% target bonusRepublic Services is the second largest environmental services companies in North America — ~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're hiring a Staff Engineer now to be the first hire and plan to expand the team aggressively. You will own that platform end to end, not manage the people.
What you'll work on
- Agent orchestration: tool calling, planner/executor and multi-agent patterns, MCP/A2A integrations with enterprise systems
- Making enterprise context reliably available at inference time — retrieval, memory, hybrid search, reranking, access controls
- LLMOps that isn't hand-wavy: evals and golden datasets, prompt/agent versioning, tracing, token and cost budgets, CI/CD for agents
- Safety in a regulated enterprise: prompt injection, data exfiltration, PII handling, human-in-the-loop, audit…