Staff Software Engineer, Agent Eval Platform

ServiceNow · San Francisco

Software EngineeringFull-timeposted 12d ago

Company Description

Who we are

Moveworks: the Agentic AI Assistant platform that empowers the entire workforce.

Our platform enables employees to converse with all of their business systems through natural language to quickly find answers and automate tasks. Powered by the world's most advanced LLMs, our proprietary models, and a sophisticated Agentic AI platform, we're transforming how work gets done by allowing AI to take initiative, streamline complex workflows, and continuously learn and adapt.

Moveworks is trusted by over 5.5 million employees at more than 350 of the world’s largest companies, including 10% of the Fortune 500, to automate everyday tasks and streamline business operations. Recognized on the Forbes Cloud 100 and AI 50 lists, Moveworks was also named one of Fast Company’s 2025 Most Innovative Companies and Inc’s Best in Business, in the Best in Innovation category. Moveworks was also recognized at Microsoft’s 2025 Partner of the Year and in 2024, received the AI Breakthrough Award.

In December 2025, Moveworks was acquired by ServiceNow, marking a pivotal milestone in our journey to create a single front door to work for all business systems. By combining ServiceNow’s leading workflow automation with Moveworks’ Reasoning Engine and natural language capabilities, we deliver the AI platform for every person and every workflow. Built to go beyond basic summaries to deliver meaningful business impact. Together, our AI acts across enterprise systems to turn conversations into completed work.

By joining our team, you’ll be at the forefront of the AI transformation, backed by the global scale of ServiceNow and the agility of a high-growth company. We are looking for world-class talent to help us extend agentic AI to every employee across every corner of the business. Come join us!

ServiceNow: it all started in sunny San Diego, California in 2004 when a visionary engineer, Fred Luddy, saw the potential to transform how we work. Fast forward to today — ServiceNow stands as a global market leader, bringing innovative AI-enhanced technology to over 8,100 customers, including 85% of the Fortune 500®. Our intelligent cloud-based platform seamlessly connects people, systems, and processes to empower organizations to find smarter, faster, and better ways to work. But this is just the beginning of our journey. Join us as we pursue our purpose to make the world work better for everyone.

Job Description

The Role

Moveworks' AI agents don't just generate text — they act. They plan, call tools, and change real state in enterprise systems on behalf of 5.5 million employees. That makes the central problem of our team an unusually hard measurement problem: how do you score what an agent did — across a multi-step trajectory through a world it changed — precisely enough that the score can teach it to do better?

That signal is what this role owns. You'll build the judgement layer of our agent evaluation platform: the rubrics, the judges, the calibration against human labels, the methodology that makes a score mean something. And the payoff is larger than a report card — a judge good enough to grade a trajectory is a judge good enough to train against. The same calibrated signal that explains why an agent failed becomes the reward signal that stops it failing.

This isn't a pretraining role, and it isn't a testing role. It's applied ML at a point where the methodology genuinely isn't settled: LLMs judging LLMs is an open research problem, and we're working it against agents that take real, irreversible actions in stateful, multi-tenant enterprise environments.

What you get to do in this role:

We're hiring across three areas. You'll anchor on one and touch the others; which one is a conversation we have with you, not a slot we drop you into.

Eval orchestration at scale

The runtime that executes multi-turn agent scenarios end-to-end — stand up the environment and user simulator, drive the user↔agent↔world loop, collect transcripts, traces, and final state, run validators and scoring, tear down
Scheduling, retries, high-concurrency execution, and run isolation at production dataset sizes
Versioned specs, datasets, and reports, with run-to-run comparison as a first-class operation
Consolidating evals that run today as one-off workflows onto a single orchestration service — one source of truth, one place to schedule and retry
Establishing a reliability floor and an SLO for the harness itself
Getting to self-serve, so any team runs an eval without bespoke integration

Agent observability and tracing

Leading the move to OpenTelemetry-native observability for the agent platform, replacing the parallel per-service logging, correlation, and redaction mechanisms in use today
The span data model for agent trajectories — prompts, tool calls, plan updates, outcomes — so a trajectory is queryable, not reconstructed by hand from log files
Trace context propagation across async boundaries and sessions that stay alive for minutes or hours
Making full prompts and completions survive the pipeline intact, and keeping eval traffic from contaminating its own data
Fault attribution and cross-run diffing: which component actually broke, and what changed since the last green run
The debug surface support and harness engineers use, and the tracing contract with the team that builds the agent

Stateful simulation

The simulation environment itself: stateful fakes of the enterprise systems agents call — ITSM, HR, knowledge bases, inventory — backed by a real datastore that persists changes during a run, so a created ticket is visible to a later read
Per-run data injection and programmatic setup/teardown so every run is hermetic and repeatable
LLM-driven user simulators for open-ended personas, and scripted state-machine simulators for deterministic flows
Contract-testing mocks against real API schemas in CI, so simulation fidelity can't quietly drift as vendor APIs change
Ahead of us: isolated sandbox environments reproducing the config, identity, search content, and permissions an agent actually reads — provisioned from an identical baseline and torn down every run

And across all three: laying the foundation for using eval signal to optimize the agent, not just measure it.

Qualifications

To be successful in this role you have:

Experience in at least 3 of these:

Distributed systems: idempotency, delivery guarantees, isolation, and — unusually central here — determinism and reproducibility
Orchestration and workflow runtimes: DAG execution, scheduling, retries, backfills, high-concurrency job systems (Temporal, Airflow, Argo, or something you built yourself)
Observability internals as a builder, not just a user: OpenTelemetry SDKs and collectors, semantic conventions, span context propagation, high-cardinality trace data
Concurrent and async programming: Python asyncio, Go concurrency, structured cancellation
Data-intensive pipelines: high-volume ingest, schema evolution, sampling and retention trade-offs
gRPC/protobuf service and interface design

Required:

8+ years building production backend or infrastructure systems
Strong in Python or Go (ideally both)
Experience designing and operating systems that handle real traffic at scale
Comfort making a non-deterministic system measurable. You don't need an ML background — but you should find it interesting to turn fuzzy agent behavior into a signal engineers are willing to gate releases on
Comfort with ambiguity; these are novel problems without textbook solutions

Additional Information

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