AI Engineer
Hi there! AgileEngine is an Inc. 5000 company that creates award-winning software for Fortune 500 brands and trailblazing startups across 17+ industries. We rank among the leaders in areas like application development and AI/ML, and our people-first culture has earned us multiple Best Place to Work awards.
Why join us
If you’re looking for a place to grow, make an impact, and work with people who care, we’d love to meet you! :)
About the role
We are looking for a Senior AI Engineer to design and build agentic workflows and AI-powered products for enterprise customers in higher education.
The mandatory requirements are hands-on experience building AI applications and agents, Python, TypeScript, and AWS, 5+ years in software product development, Java and Spring Boot, JavaScript and React, relational databases, and strong English communication skills.
Must haves
● 5+ years of experience in a software product development environment.
● Strong proficiency with Java and Spring Boot.
● Experience with JavaScript and React.
● Experience with relational databases.
● Hands-on experience building AI agents, tool-using LLM applications, or orchestrated workflows.
● Experience using agents to support coding, code review, testing, release management, or incident response.
● Senior-level experience building and operating production software systems.
● Experience with TypeScript, Python, RESTful APIs, and infrastructure on AWS.
● Experience with APIs, workflow engines, event-driven architectures, integrations, or distributed systems.
● Strong understanding of testing, observability, security, permissions, and failure recovery.
● Ability to turn ambiguous opportunities into practical, reliable technical solutions.
● Strong communication skills and the ability to influence engineering practices across a team.
● Experience building enterprise SaaS or multi-tenant systems.
● Leadership mindset and ability to drive changes across different teams.
● Upper-intermediate English level.
Nice to haves
● Experience with multi-agent systems, RAG, vector search, agent evaluation, or human-in-the-loop workflows.
● Familiarity with higher education technology and its privacy and compliance requirements.
● Experience leading technical transformation or introducing new engineering practices.
What you will do
● Design and build agentic workflows that coordinate tools, services, data, and human approvals.
● Develop reusable patterns for agent orchestration, tool use, context management, memory, and multi-agent collaboration.
● Use agentic coding tools throughout the development lifecycle, including planning, implementation, testing, debugging, refactoring, code review, and documentation.
● Integrate agents into software development, testing, deployment, support, and operational workflows.
● Establish standards for agent evaluation, observability, reliability, security, and governance.
● Prototype new agentic capabilities and turn successful experiments into production systems.
● Build complete, usable products—not just demonstrations or isolated model integrations.
● Identify opportunities to improve engineering productivity and product delivery through agentic development.
● Mentor engineers and help shape an agentic-first technical strategy across the organization.
● Collaborate with product and engineering leaders to connect agentic capabilities to meaningful outcomes.
● Demonstrate the ability to use AI coding agents as productive engineering collaborators across an application codebase.
● Provide agents with clear context, constraints, architecture, acceptance criteria, and technical direction.
● Review, test, secure, and improve agent-generated code rather than accepting outputs without verification.
● Decompose complex application work into agent-ready tasks while maintaining architectural consistency and product intent.
● Create workflows in which agents can reason, select tools, call APIs, manage state, recover from failures, and escalate to people when appropriate.
● Design agentic applications around real user needs, including intuitive experiences, reliable workflows, permissions, audit trails, and meaningful error handling.
● Move from prototype to production by addressing performance, scalability, security, monitoring, evaluation, cost, and ongoing maintenance.
● Understand problems deeply, make appropriate tradeoffs, and deliver complete solutions that customers can depend on.
Perks and benefits
● Professional growth: Accelerate your professional journey with mentorship, TechTalks, and personalized growth roadmaps
● Competitive compensation: We match your ever-growing skills, talent, and contributions with competitive USD-based compensation and budgets for education, fitness, and team activities
● A selection of exciting projects: Join projects with modern solutions development and top-tier clients that include Fortune 500 enterprises and leading product brands
● Flextime: Tailor your schedule for an optimal work-life balance, by having the options of working from home and going to the office — whatever makes you the happiest and most productive.
Meet Our Recruitment Process
Asynchronous stage — An automated, self-paced track that helps us move faster and give you quicker feedback:
● Short online form to confirm basic requirements
● 30–60 minute skills assessment
● 5-minute introduction video
Synchronous stage — Live interviews
● Technical interview with our engineering team (scheduled at your convenience)
● Final interview with your future teammates
If it’s a match—you’ll get an offer!