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AI Engineering Leader (Austin)

Damco Solutions
2 hours ago
Full-time
On-site
Austin, Texas, United States
AI Engineering Leader

All the relevant skills, qualifications and experience that a successful applicant will need are listed in the following description. Locations: Austin, TX | Charlotte, NC | New York, NY | Tempe, AZ | San Diego, CA, (hands on AI) Role Overview We are seeking a highly hands-on AI Engineering leader with deep expertise in Generative AI, Agentic systems, and production-grade AI platforms. This role is not a pure management role — the ideal candidate will actively design, build, and scale AI systems (RAG, agents, evaluation frameworks) while leading engineering initiatives and influencing platform strategy. The candidate must demonstrate strong AI + AWS cloud expertise, with proven experience delivering enterprise-grade AI solutions in production environments. Core Responsibilities AI System Design & Development Design and build production-grade GenAI systems, including: Multi-agent architectures Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines GraphRAG implementations Autonomous agent workflows and orchestration Develop and integrate AI agents with tools, APIs, and enterprise systems Implement MCP-based agent communication and tool-use frameworks Apply advanced prompt engineering techniques for reliability and performance Agentic AI & Evaluation Build and deploy multi-agent orchestration systems Develop and implement: Agent evaluation frameworks RAG evaluation pipelines Measure and optimize: Output quality Hallucination rates Relevance and groundedness Continuously improve models through evaluation-driven iteration Engineering & Platform Development Develop APIs and services using: Python (primary) .NET (preferred) Build scalable AI services with: REST APIs Microservices architecture Contribute to web-based AI applications using: Angular / TypeScript (preferred) Integrate AI systems into enterprise workflows and applications Cloud & Infrastructure (AWS Focus) Design and deploy AI solutions on AWS, leveraging: Lambda, S3, EC2, EKS, Glue, SNS, SQS Kafka-based streaming architectures Build scalable and secure AI pipelines using cloud-native patterns Implement cost-efficient and high-performance AI workloads DevOps & CI/CD Design and implement CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions Integrate AI workflows into CI/CD pipelines with strong AWS integration Ensure: Automated deployment Testing and validation of AI systems Continuous monitoring and iteration AI Development Tooling Leverage modern AI development tools and ecosystems, including: Claude (Claude API / Claude Code) Cursor AI (AI-assisted development workflows) Build and optimize developer workflows using AI-assisted coding tools Required Qualifications 10+ years of overall xsgimln engineering experience 5+ years of hands-on AI/ML / GenAI development in production environments Strong experience building: AI agents (minimum 2+ implementations) GraphRAG systems (minimum 2+ implementations) MCP-based integrations (minimum 1+) Proven expertise in: Multi-agent orchestration RAG pipelines Agent and RAG evaluation frameworks Strong programming skills in: Python (must-have) Experience with: API development and system integration Strong experience with: AWS cloud platform (must-have) Preferred Qualifications Experience with: .NET / C# development Terraform (Infrastructure as Code) Experience building: Web applications using Angular / TypeScript Familiarity with: Kafka-based streaming systems Exposure to: Advanced AI orchestration frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph, etc.)