Principal / Senior AI Engineer (Agentic AI | Python | AWS)

Hybrid in McLean, VA, US • Posted 4 hours ago • Updated 4 hours ago
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$68 - $72/hr
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Skills

  • Amazon RDS
  • Amazon SageMaker
  • Application Development
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Backend Development
  • Business Process
  • Configuration Management Database
  • Collaboration
  • IT Management
  • JIRA
  • Continuous Integration
  • Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Continuous Delivery
  • Evaluation
  • LangChain
  • Management
  • Prototyping
  • Orchestration
  • Prompt Engineering
  • Machine Learning Operations (ML Ops)
  • Machine Learning (ML)
  • LangSmith
  • Real-time
  • Software Engineering
  • Streaming
  • Remote Desktop Services
  • Systems Design
  • Regulatory Compliance
  • ServiceNow
  • IaaS
  • Python
  • React.js
  • Use Cases
  • Vector Databases
  • Workflow

Summary

Principal / Senior AI Engineer (Agentic AI | Python | AWS)

Introduction: Join a fast-paced, cross-functional engineering team at a leading enterprise organization as a Principal / Senior AI Engineer. This hands-on role focuses on designing and delivering Agentic AI solutions, transforming Generative AI prototypes into scalable, production-grade systems. We''re looking for a Python full-stack expert with deep LLM and AWS experience to build reliable, secure, high-performance AI applications.

Responsibilities:

  • Agentic AI & Application Development: Design, develop, and deploy AI-driven applications and multi-agent systems using LangChain, LangGraph, and CrewAI; build workflows to automate complex engineering and business processes.
  • RAG & LLM Engineering: Optimize Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines with Amazon Bedrock and vector databases (OpenSearch, Pinecone); work with LLMs like GPT, Claude, and Llama for enterprise use cases, including orchestration, tool usage, and function calling.
  • Full-Stack & Backend Development: Build scalable apps with Python (frontend/backend), FastAPI, Pydantic, and async programming; enable real-time AI features like streaming responses and APIs.
  • AI Integration & Enterprise Systems: Integrate AI with platforms like ServiceNow, CMDB, and JIRA; collaborate with React frontend teams for intuitive user experiences.
  • Responsible AI & Governance: Implement guardrails via prompt engineering, content moderation, bias detection, and output validation; ensure compliance with security and AI governance standards.
  • Observability, Evaluation & MLOps: Create evaluation frameworks with Ragas and DeepEval; use LangSmith and OpenTelemetry for observability; manage CI/CD pipelines, prompt versioning, and AI/ML deployments.
  • Engineering Excellence: Lead system design, architecture, and best practices; provide technical leadership and drive operational improvements.

Requirements:

Required Qualifications:

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience.
  • 7+ years hands-on with Python (full-stack/backend).
  • 2+ years in AI/Generative AI/LLMs.
  • 5+ years with AWS (Bedrock, SageMaker, Lambda, etc.).
  • Proven track record building scalable, production-grade applications.
  • Strong system design, distributed systems, and backend architecture knowledge.

Technical Skills:

  • AI/GenAI: GPT-series, Claude, Llama, Hugging Face Transformers, PEFT.
  • Agent Frameworks: LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, multi-agent systems, tool usage, function calling.
  • Backend/Full-Stack: Python 3.10+, FastAPI, Pydantic, async programming.
  • Cloud/Infrastructure: AWS (Bedrock, SageMaker, Lambda, RDS, pgvector), serverless architecture.
  • Vector Databases: OpenSearch, Pinecone.
  • Observability/Evaluation: LangSmith, OpenTelemetry, Ragas, DeepEval.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Production-grade AI/ML platform experience.
  • LLM fine-tuning and multi-agent AI systems.
  • CI/CD and MLOps practices.
  • Prior experience with Capital One (highly preferred).
  • Enterprise-scale integrations.
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  • Dice Id: 91163956
  • Position Id: 8956624
  • Posted 4 hours ago
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