About Beacon AI

We’re a fast-moving team of aviators, engineers, and operators building an AI platform to make flying safer, more efficient, and more capable. Backed by top investors, we’ve secured a dozen Department of Defense contracts and partnered with major airlines to deliver mission-critical systems. We operate without silos or heavy processes. Small, focused teams own what they build, ship quickly, and learn fast, pushing the boundaries of how humans and AI work together in aviation.

What you'll do

At Beacon AI, we're building AI-powered systems that help aviation professionals navigate complex, high-stakes operational decisions.

This role sits at the intersection of agentic AI, information retrieval, and production software engineering. We build systems that reason over diverse sources of information, use tools to investigate problems, and produce reliable, explainable results.

We're looking for engineers who can think critically about how these systems should work, design their underlying information and orchestration architectures,



and take them from experimental prototypes to dependable production services.

Design and build agentic systems
- Design and implement agent architectures involving tool use, planning, orchestration, state management, and memory.
- Develop effective context engineering strategies, balancing relevant information, model capabilities, latency, and cost.
- Make thoughtful architectural decisions about when to use autonomous agents, explicit workflows, conventional algorithms, or combinations thereof.
- Design tool interfaces and structured model interactions that support reliable, inspectable behavior.

Turn complex information into usable knowledge
- Develop an understanding of complex document collections and data sources: their structure, semantics, authority, relationships, and scope.
- Translate domain knowledge into effective retrieval systems, structured representations, and agent-accessible tools.
- Apply information r

📌 Staff Applied AI Engineer, Agentic Systems (San Carlos)
🏢 Beacon AI
📍 San Carlos