Senior AI Engineer – Agentic Systems
Location: Plano, TX / Columbus, OH / New York, NY / Jersey City, NJ
Work Arrangement: Onsite
Experience: 10–15 years preferred
Visa: USC, EAD, H1B
Job Summary
We are seeking a Senior AI Engineer with strong hands-on experience building and deploying production-grade LLM and Agentic AI systems, preferably within the Banking/Financial Services domain.
Key Requirements:
- 7+ years of software engineering experience with senior/lead-level ownership.
- Proven experience delivering LLM-based agentic systems in production.
- Strong hands-on Python and Java/Spring experience.
- Expertise with LangChain, LangGraph, or equivalent agent orchestration frameworks.
- Experience with RAG, tool/function calling, multi-turn conversations, escalation, and human handoff.
- Strong understanding of prompt/context engineering and agent state management.
- Experience with LLM evaluation, regression testing, trace analysis, and A/B testing.
- Hands-on experience with vLLM or comparable LLM inference/serving platforms and commercial LLM APIs.
- Working knowledge of PyTorch and LLM/model fundamentals.
- Strong distributed systems experience including APIs, queues, caching, observability, and CI/CD.
- Experience implementing guardrails, PII handling, auditability, deterministic fallbacks, and production reliability.
Preferred:
- Experience with agent-building platforms such as Sierra or Decagon.
- Voice agents, streaming inference, or contact-center integrations.
- Banking, financial services, healthcare, or other regulated-industry experience.
- Experience with LangSmith, Braintrust, or custom LLM evaluation frameworks.
- Knowledge of LLM safety and guardrail technologies.
Important: Candidates must be local to the selected location (within approximately 30–40 miles) and able to work onsite. No relocation candidates. Candidates must also be available for an onsite interview.
Pay: $55.00 - $75.00 per hour
Expected hours: 40.0 per week
Work Location: In person