Senior Agentic AI Engineer
Job details
- Level
- Senior
- Experience
- 10+ years
- Posted
- Oct 15, 2026
- Last confirmed open
- Oct 15, 2026
About this role
Title: Senior Agentic AI Engineer Location: Houston, TX Job Type:- Full Time Permanent Experience:- 10+ Years Minimum Job Description: Must-Have 4–6 years software engineering experience, including 2+ hands-on experience building LLM-based applications in production. Strong Python (TypeScript a plus); deep familiarity with LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, open-weight models) and prompt/context engineering.
Hands-on experience with agent frameworks, tool/function calling, structured outputs, and multi-agent orchestration patterns. Experience with vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector, etc.), embeddings, and retrieval system design.
Solid backend fundamentals
APIs, async systems, distributed services, Docker/Kubernetes, and cloud platforms. Practical knowledge of LLM evaluation, safety, and reliability techniques; comfort working with imperfect, probabilistic systems. Excellent communication skills and a track record of ownership in fast-moving environments.
Good-to-Have Fine-tuning / RLHF experience, open-source contributions to AI tooling, or published work on agents. Experience with MLOps/LLMOps platforms (LangSmith, Langfuse, Weights & Biases, MLflow) and enterprise security/compliance requirements. Architect and build multi-step, tool-using LLM agents (planning, memory, retrieval, orchestration) for production use cases.
Design robust agent workflows using frameworks such as LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, or the OpenAI/Anthropic agent SDKs; integrate tools via MCP and function calling. Collaborate with solution architects, product teams, and application owners to implement integration designs. Build RAG pipelines, vector search, and context-management strategies that keep agents accurate and cost-efficient.
Strong Python (TypeScript a plus); deep familiarity with LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, open-weight models) and prompt/context engineering.