Sr AI Engineer (26-01456) -

Agentic AI Engineer Lead

HANDS-ON ENGINEERING LEAD

Lead the pod's technical delivery and build secure, reliable agents alongside the engineers.

ROLE MANDATE

A senior, hands-on lead accountable for implementation quality, agent evaluation, and secure production readiness. Owns implementation decisions within agreed architecture and risk policies. Partners with Architecture on design exceptions, Security on controls, and Product on priorities and acceptance criteria. Translates architecture into working solutions and develops engineers through coaching and code review.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead technical delivery, resolve trade-offs, and manage dependencies.
• Build agent orchestration, tool integrations, and context/state handling.
• Own agent evaluations, regression tests, and release acceptance criteria.
• Implement security controls, guardrails, and human approval paths.
• Own tracing, recovery, rollback, and cost/latency with platform partners.
• Set code standards and coach engineers through hands-on delivery.

SUCCESS PROFILE

• Experience shipping and operating production agentic AI solutions.
• Strong software engineering, tool calling, and context management.
• Practical depth in evaluations, observability, and secure execution.
• Sound judgment on agent vs. deterministic workflow trade-offs.
• Hands-on leadership, stakeholder communication, and coaching.

WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE​

Reliable agents meet agreed task-success, security, latency, and cost targets, with predictable delivery, faster recovery, and increasing pod independence.​