AI Engineer – Agentic AI Development

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Location: Seattle, WA (Onsite Preferred) Experience: 8 Years Employment Type: Full-Time / Contract POSITION OVERVIEW: We are seeking a highly skilled AI Engineer – Agentic AI Development to join an exciting enterprise AI initiative with a leading retail client.

Qualifications

• Experience: 8 Years
• The ideal candidate will have a strong background in software engineering with recent (within the last 1–2 years) hands-on experience building and shipping AI agents into production.
• This is not a research or proof-of-concept role—the selected candidate must be able to demonstrate real-world experience developing, deploying, and maintaining agentic AI solutions in production environments.
• Prior experience as a Software Engineer with enterprise-scale application development.
• Hands-on experience with Claude Agent SDK.
• Experience with LLM optimization, prompt engineering, and AI cost management.
• Experience designing scalable AI systems for enterprise applications.
• Retail or e-commerce domain experience is a plus.
• Experience working in Agile development environments.
• Required
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Strong problem-solving and software architecture

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy production-grade AI agents and multi-agent systems.
• Build agent orchestration, tool integrations, and Model Context Protocol (MCP)-based solutions.
• Develop evaluation frameworks to measure agent performance, accuracy, reliability, and failure modes.
• Implement context engineering, memory management, and retrieval strategies for enterprise AI applications.
• Build scalable, production-ready software following the complete SDLC.
• Collaborate with client engineering teams to deliver intelligent automation solutions.
• Optimize AI applications for performance, latency, scalability, and cost.
• Contribute to engineering best practices and mentor team members on modern Agentic AI development.
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