Senior Applied AI & Agent Engineer

Senior Applied AI & Agent Engineer

Location

Wilmington, Delaware

Hybrid Work Model- 3 days onsite in Wilmington, DE/ 2 days remote

Monday-Friday, 8am-5pm ET

We are looking for a Senior Applied AI & Agent Engineer to build practical AI solutions that automate real business processes. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on turning manual workflows involving email, documents, databases, APIs, ERP/CRM systems, and internal applications into secure, reliable AI-powered automation.

What You’ll Do

• Build production AI agents and AI-enabled applications.
• Automate multi-step business workflows using LLMs, APIs, databases, and enterprise systems.
• Develop Python/FastAPI services and integrations.
• Implement tool/function calling, structured outputs, human approvals, retries, monitoring, and audit trails.
• Build RAG solutions for enterprise knowledge and document search.
• Integrate vector search using OpenSearch, PostgreSQL/pgvector, or similar technologies.
• Deploy and operate AI applications on AWS.
• Implement appropriate security, IAM, guardrails, and least-privilege access.

Qualifications

• Strong Python and software engineering experience.
• Experience building REST APIs and integrating enterprise systems.
• Hands-on experience with LLMs such as OpenAI, Claude, or Amazon Bedrock.
• Experience with AI agents, tool/function calling, RAG, and vector search.
• Strong SQL/database skills.
• AWS experience with services such as Lambda, S3, IAM, API Gateway, CloudWatch, EventBridge/SQS, and Bedrock.
• Experience with Docker and CI/CD.
• Understanding of AI security, observability, evaluation, and human-in-the-loop workflows.
• Experience with Bedrock AgentCore, Bedrock Knowledge Bases, Guardrails, Step Functions, OpenSearch, or pgvector is a plus.
• We are looking for a builder who thinks beyond prompts and chatbots and can deliver secure, measurable business automation in production.