Our client is seeking an experienced Lead AI Engineer to lead our Agentic AI team as we scale our agentic offerings. In order to do this job well, we are looking for someone who can demonstrate a project built on LLMs that showcases your skill at getting them to do complex tasks.
• Experience leading agentic system development from ideation through production, including technical design, architecture decisions, and day-to-day leadership of Data Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers
• Experience integrating and working with LLMs, with a strong understanding of their capabilities and limitations
• Experience integrating and working with agent frameworks like Claude Agent SDK or OpenAI Agent SDK
• Experience building observability, evaluation, and feedback loops for agent behavior (telemetry, prompt evaluation, regression testing, and reliability metrics).
Strong Candidates have:
• Experience designing and deploying complex agentic systems using LLMs
• Hands-on work with multi-agent coordination, routing, and tool orchestration
• Passion for building autonomous and semi-autonomous systems that solve real customer problems
This role is a full-time position located out of our office in Pittsburgh, PA.
Scope of Responsibilities
• Designs and builds multi-agent systems with tool use, memory, routing, and planning
• Develops Agent Skills and tools as modular, composable services that interact with backend systems, models, and data processing
• Assist with automated evaluation of agents, skills, and prompts across the entire product lifecycle
• Work with our Product and Implementation organizations to find solutions to our most vexing challenges applying agents to our customer problems
Qualifications
• U.S. Citizenship is required
• Bachelor's, Master’s, or Doctorate in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Science, or a related field
• Minimum 3 years of experience building and deploying ML or LLM-powered systems in production environments
• Minimum 2 years of experience leading or mentoring engineering teams in production environments
• Practical experience in building, developing, and productionizing machine learning systems
• Advanced software skills in Python
• Experience with common LLM algorithms and implementations
• Hands-on experience with AWS and cloud infrastructure
Desired Skills:
• Current possession of a U.S. security clearance, or the ability to obtain one with our sponsorship
• Experience in or exposure to the nuances of a startup or other entrepreneurial environment
• Experience with Claude Code and GenAI coding best practices.