Applied AI Engineer / Agentic AI Engineer

Applied AI Engineer / Agentic AI Engineer

Contract

On-site, Santa Clara, CA

Required Qualifications

• 8 or more years of professional software engineering experience, with a demonstrated record of delivering production systems.
• Deep expertise in software design and architecture. This role involves substantial use of AI-assisted development tooling, and success depends on the ability to produce precise, unambiguous specifications that can be implemented reliably and verified against clear acceptance criteria.
• Hands-on experience building AI agents or agentic workflows in production environments, including tool use, state management, and reliable execution under real-world conditions.
• Practical experience with Microsoft Azure AI Foundry or a directly comparable enterprise AI platform for building and deploying agent-based services.
• Strong Python development skills. Agent services will be built primarily in Python and must be well-structured for extensibility and long-term maintainability.
• Demonstrated experience working with industrial device protocols, specifically Modbus, BACnet, and OPC-UA. The contractor must be able to build agent integrations that communicate with physical devices accurately and reliably.
• Experience working with digital twin concepts or asset registry systems, including the challenges of keeping a software representation of a physical environment consistent overtime.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with additional OT protocols such as MQTT/Sparkplug-B or DNP3.
• Background in data center infrastructure, facilities management systems, or DCIM platforms.
• Familiarity with automated device discovery and configuration extraction across heterogeneous hardware environments.
• Experience designing agentic systems that operate with human-in-the-loop approval workflows in safety-sensitive or operationally critical contexts.