Senior GenAI/Agentic AI Engineer

Minnesota - AI Engineer

Hollstadt Overview

Hollstadt Consulting is a management and technology consulting firm dedicated to placing professionals at engagements where they will excel. When you work with us, you'll work with a refreshingly real company led and staffed by seasoned experts who are also down-to-earth, good people. We're committed to treating you with respect and helping you achieve your career aspirations.

Since 1990, Hollstadt has been a trusted partner to more than 150 domestic and global companies and has successfully completed over 3,000 projects. Our continued growth has created challenging and rewarding opportunities for accomplished IT and Business Consultants. Hollstadt Consulting is an equal opportunity employer including disability/veteran.

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Job Description

Role: Senior GenAI/Agentic AI Engineer

Location: Hybrid in Minneapolis, MN

Duration: 11/16/2026-5/7/2027

Rate: $67.97-$79.79/hour W2, dependent on skills and qualifications

We’re looking for a GenAI Engineer who can translate business needs and ambiguous stakeholder problems into practical, production-ready GenAI solutions. This role combines product thinking with hands-on engineering across agentic systems, prompting, evaluation, and the GenAI application lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Translate stakeholder needs into effective agentic workflows, prompt strategies, and other GenAI solutions and tooling.
• Design and build AI agents and multi-step workflows, including tool/function calling, orchestration, retrieval, and human-in-the-loop patterns.
• Develop robust approaches for evaluating and testing agents, including quality, reliability, safety, and failure-mode testing.
• Build and iterate on prompts, RAG pipelines, structured outputs, and LLM-based applications.
• Integrate GenAI solutions with enterprise data, APIs, applications, and tools.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to prototype, validate, deploy, and continuously improve high-value use cases.

What We’re Looking For

• Expert use of an AI coding platform such as Antigravity, Kiro, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or similar tools to rapidly design, build, test, and iterate on production-quality solutions.
• Hands-on experience with LLMs, agentic architectures, prompt engineering, RAG, and agent evaluation/testing.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills, with the ability to turn ambiguous business requirements into well-designed GenAI solutions.
• Experience or familiarity with the agentic application lifecycle, including deployment, observability, guardrails, evaluations, and integrations using approaches such as MCP and A2A, is a plus.
• Practical understanding of LLM limitations, responsible AI, security, reliability, latency, and cost considerations.
• You do not need experience with every framework or technology listed. We value demonstrated engineering ability, sound judgment, curiosity, collaboration, and the ability to learn new GenAI technologies quickly.

Benefits + Perks

Comprehensive Benefit Plan

Hollstadt offers medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, paid sick leave, and retirement benefits to eligible employees. With three different medical plans to choose from, you can enroll in the coverage you need from individual to family, or anywhere in between!

Remarketing Process

Hollstadt is based on retention and relationships. We get to know your strengths and career wishes throughout your assignment and then start remarket discussions 6-8 weeks prior to your end date. By being proactive, we are able to keep your down time between assignments as short as possible, unless you choose otherwise.

Professional Development

Hollstadt offers on-demand training through our consultant portal. Trainings give our consultants the continuing education they need to excel on their projects. Many of our courses apply towards continuing education credits and we have an entire training hub dedicated to upskilling in Artificial Intelligence (AI).

401k + Matching

One popular benefit is our 401(k) match on the first 4% of your contributions. Hollstadt wants to help you reach your long-term financial goals and understands that planning for your future is critical. Consultants also have access to support from a Financial Advisor.

Bonus Opportunities

We appreciate and reward loyalty. Join Hollstadt, stay for 5 years, and we’ll give you a $5,000 Longevity Award bonus! Additionally, we know great talent knows other great talent.

If you are on contract with Hollstadt and refer one of your connections who gets placed, we’ll pay you $1,000!

Ongoing Support & Networking

We have made a significant investment in building a support program for our consultant team - so you never have to feel like you are going it alone. We also have a Consultant Coach program which acts like a 'work buddy' to provide a safe ear for questions or concerns at your client site.