Hover

AI

PrincipalAgenticAIEngineer

$274–338k San Francisco, California, United States; New York, New York, United States Remote Friendly
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HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Principal Agentic AI Engineer at Hover. Skills: Agentic System Architecture, Technical Leadership, AI Systems Reliability, Multi-agent Orchestration, LLM-driven Reasoning, Enterprise-grade AI Trust. Lead the architecture, technical strategy, and operational rigor behind our next generation of autonomous systems. Design and evolve Hover’s multi-agent architecture, including orchestration, handoff logic, retry/fallback systems, observability, and state management”

Industry & Context.

AI
Problems you'll solve

Bring clarity and momentum to ambiguous technical and operational problems; Deep systems-thinking capability across reliability, observability, failure modes, state management, and graceful degradation

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

10+ years of software engineering experience, including technical leadership of complex production systems, Experience building and shipping production AI systems under real customer load and reliability expectations, Deep systems-thinking capability across reliability, observability, failure modes, state management, and graceful degradation, product judgment around what to automate versus where humans should remain in the loop, Clear technical opinions on the boundary between deterministic systems and LLM-driven reasoning, Exceptional communication skills, including technical design docs and executive-level tradeoff discussions, A passion for mentoring engineers and building strong, collaborative teams

Nice to Have

Experience in regulated or high-trust domains such as insurance, fintech, healthcare, or legal, Experience with confidence scoring, self-healing systems, critique-loop architectures, or AI evaluation frameworks, Background as a founding engineer, principal engineer, or technical lead within an AI-native company, distributed systems or platform engineering foundations that evolved into applied AI leadership

What You'll Do.

Lead the architecture

and operational rigor behind our next generation of autonomous systems

Design and evolve Hover’s multi-agent architecture

including orchestration

retry/fallback systems

Define the boundary between deterministic systems and LLM-driven reasoning by deciding when the model should reason versus when the system should enforce

Build confidence-tier systems

and auditability frameworks that allow enterprise customers to trust autonomous outputs

Stay hands-on with critical technical challenges

debugging pipelines and improving production reliability

Build evaluation frameworks that define what is “good enough to ship

” including regression detection

customer-specific acceptance criteria

and operational benchmarking

Translate business intent into pragmatic engineering plans

Set and execute the 6–12 month technical roadmap for agentic AI at Hover

Coach engineers and senior ICs to think in systems

operate with product rigor

and ship reliable production software

Raise the engineering bar around operational excellence

and delivery discipline

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Partner closely with Product and Design to shape the UX of autonomy; represent engineering clearly in leadership discussions; Coach engineers and senior ICs; building strong, collaborative teams

Communication Scope

Exceptional communication skills, including technical design docs and executive-level tradeoff discussions

Process & Methodology

Define the 6–12 month technical roadmap for agentic AI at Hover, Translate business intent into pragmatic engineering plans

Full Job Description

Hover helps people design, improve, and protect the properties they love. With proprietary AI built on over a decade of real property data, Hover answers age-old questions like “What will it look like?” and “What will it cost?” Homeowners, contractors, and insurance professionals rely on Hover to get fully measured, accurate, and interactive 3D models of any property — all from a smartphone scan in minutes. At Hover, we’re driven by curiosity, purpose, and a shared commitment to serving our customers, communities, and each other. We believe the best ideas come from diverse perspectives and are proud to cultivate an inclusive, high-performance culture that inspires growth, accountability, and excellence. Backed by leading investors like Google Ventures and Menlo Ventures, and trusted by industry leaders including Travelers, State Farm, and Nationwide — we’re redefining how people understand and interact with their spaces. Why Hover wants you Hover has one of the richest 3D property datasets on the planet. Millions of structures captured, with sub-inch precision and used by major insurance carriers and construction companies today. The next step is building autonomous systems that can perform inspections, damage assessments, design, and cost estimations with speed, accuracy, and operational trust at scale. We’ve already validated the direction. This role is responsible for taking Hover from “we’ve proven it works” to “it runs accurately and reliably at scale.” We’re hiring a Principal Agentic AI Engineer to lead the architecture, technical strategy, and operational rigor behind our next generation of autonomous systems. This is a deeply hands-on technical leadership role where you’ll stay close to architecture, evaluation systems, debugging, and critical implementation details while helping define the future of agentic AI at Hover. You’ll work at the intersection of: multi-agent orchestration, agentic systems reliability, human-in-the-loop operational design, and ente

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