Agentic AI Software Engineer

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Houston / $160000 - $180000 annum

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Salary

SALARY:

$160000 - $180000

Location

LOCATION

Houston

Job Type
JOB TYPE

Permanent

Senior Agentic AI Engineer (Full Stack)
$160,000-$180,000
4 days/week on-site

Overview

We are seeking a senior software engineer with a strong full-stack background who has evolved into AI engineering and agent development. This role focuses on building, deploying, and optimising intelligent agents and AI-driven workflows that interact with enterprise systems, data sources, and users.
The successful candidate will have hands-on experience developing production-grade AI applications using large language models (LLMs), retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), agent orchestration frameworks, and modern software engineering practices. This position is centred on designing and building AI agents rather than purely traditional application development.

Key Responsibilities

AI Agent Development

  • Design and develop AI agents capable of reasoning across complex business processes and interacting with tools, APIs, and enterprise systems.
  • Build intelligent support and workflow automation agents that understand intent, retrieve information, and execute tasks.
  • Develop agentic workflows combining LLMs, structured data, business logic, external services, and retrieval mechanisms.
  • Create memory, context, and personalisation capabilities to improve agent effectiveness.
  • Implement guardrails, monitoring, evaluation frameworks, escalation paths, and human oversight mechanisms.
  • Measure and improve agent performance across quality, reliability, latency, utilisation, and cost metrics.

Full-Stack Application Development

  • Build user-facing applications that enable interaction with AI-powered experiences.
  • Develop modern frontend applications using frameworks such as React, Angular, Next.js, or comparable technologies.
  • Create backend services, APIs, orchestration layers, and integration services using Python-based frameworks.
  • Translate advanced AI capabilities into practical business applications and intuitive user experiences.
  • Own solutions end-to-end from architecture through deployment and support.

Data & AI Infrastructure

  • Build and maintain data ingestion, integration, and transformation pipelines.
  • Develop and support retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) solutions and enterprise search capabilities.
  • Design systems supporting context management, retrieval, memory, and personalisation.
  • Integrate AI solutions with databases, APIs, analytics platforms, and enterprise applications.
  • Ensure data quality, security, reliability, and scalability across AI systems.

LLM Engineering

  • Integrate and orchestrate large language models within production environments.
  • Design prompting strategies, retrieval approaches, tool-calling frameworks, and multi-step workflows.
  • Build AI-powered capabilities including conversational assistants, document intelligence, semantic search, and workflow automation.
  • Evaluate models, architectures, and AI platforms for performance, reliability, business fit, and cost efficiency.
  • Establish monitoring and evaluation methodologies for production AI solutions.

Engineering Excellence

  • Leverage AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering productivity while maintaining high code quality standards.
  • Stay current with emerging AI frameworks, tooling, and industry best practices.
  • Implement CI/CD, testing, observability, security, and production monitoring practices.
  • Support reliable deployment and ongoing optimisation of AI-enabled applications.

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field.
  • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
  • Strong full-stack development experience across frontend and backend technologies.
  • Proven experience building and maintaining RESTful APIs and backend services.
  • Experience working with data-intensive applications and enterprise integrations.
  • Hands-on experience developing AI agents, autonomous workflows, or LLM-powered applications.
  • Strong understanding of LLMs, RAG, tool usage, orchestration frameworks, and AI application architectures.
  • Experience integrating AI systems with APIs, databases, enterprise platforms, and third-party services.
  • Frontend experience with React, Angular, Next.js, or similar frameworks.
  • Experience using AI-assisted development tools within software delivery workflows.
  • Experience designing agent memory, retrieval, context, evaluation, or reasoning systems.
  • Strong understanding of cloud-native application development and deployment.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with modern data-platform or lakehouse architectures.
  • Experience deploying applications on public cloud platforms.
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and cloud operations.
  • Experience working within agile software delivery environments.
  • Experience building highly scalable enterprise applications.

What Success Looks Like

  • Demonstrates an AI-first engineering mindset focused on intelligent workflows rather than simple AI integrations.
  • Comfortable operating across software engineering, AI, data, and infrastructure domains.
  • Balances innovation with reliability, observability, governance, and security.
  • Strong product mindset with a focus on measurable business outcomes.
  • Effective communicator who collaborates with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Thrives in fast-moving environments where requirements and technologies evolve rapidly.


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