Principal Agentic AI Engineer

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 AI agentic 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 enterprise-grade AI trust. If you want to help define how an entire industry transitions from manual workflows to autonomous systems, this role is for you. You will contribute by Agentic AI Architecture & Technical Leadership Define and evolve Hover's Agentic AI architecture, including multi-agent orchestration, planning, memory, and tool use. Establish standards for balancing deterministic systems and model-driven reasoning in production. Lead technical strategy and key architecture decisions while remaining hands-on with coding, debugging, and optimization. Drive reliability, observability, safety, and operational excellence across AI systems. Navigate ambiguity and provide technical leadership across teams and stakeholders. AI Quality, Evaluation & Reliability Build evaluation systems that measure quality, reliability, accuracy, latency, and business outcomes. Define quality hill-climbing processes to continuously improve agent performance through experimentation and evaluation. Develop benchmarks, regression testing, and customer-specific acceptance criteria. Design confidence scoring, fallback mechanisms, escalation paths, and auditability frameworks. Improve production reliability through monitoring, root-cause analysis, and continuous optimization. Product & Cross-Functional Leadership Partner with Product, Design, and Operations to deliver AI-powered customer experiences. Shape human-AI collaboration patterns, including approvals, overrides, and transparency. Translate business goals into technical roadmaps and measurable outcomes. Communicate technical tradeoffs clearly to executives and stakeholders. Drive alignment and execution across complex, cross-functional initiatives. Team & Organizational Leadership Set the technical vision and roadmap for Agentic AI at Hover. Mentor engineers and raise the bar on architecture, engineering rigor, and delivery excellence. Foster a culture of ownership, experimentation, and customer focus. Lead through influen