Job Title: Senior AI Agentic Engineer
Location: Seattle, WA
Duration: 5+ Months of Contract
Qualifications
Bachelor s or Master s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
6+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong track record of designing and delivering complex, scalable distributed systems.
AI Fluency Required: Hands-on experience working with LLMs, foundation model APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, etc.), prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) architectures, and embedding-based search in production environments.
Platform engineering in AI teams You have contributed to or built shared AI infrastructure or developer platforms within an AI-focused product organization, enabling other teams to build reliable AI-powered features on top of your foundation.
Proficiency in Python and/or Java; strong grasp of multiple tech stacks and cloud-native development on AWS and/or Google Cloud Platform.
Experience with RESTful services, event-driven architectures, and backend databases (SQL, NoSQL, or cloud-native datastores).
Familiarity with containerization technologies (Kubernetes, Docker) and modern CI/CD practices and tools (e.g., GitLab).
Demonstrated ability to design systems spanning multiple weeks or months of work, incorporating a full team s worth of engineers, and balancing short and long-term trade-offs.
Strong emphasis on building observability into systems real-time alerting, dashboards, metrics, and performance accountability.
Agile development experience (Scrum, Kanban, Lean, or similar) with a continuous improvement and quality mindset.