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Principal Agentic AI Engineer (W2)
Ascii Group, LLC
Durham · On-site Contract Lead Today
About the role
Key Responsibilities
Principal-Level Technical Ownership
- Act as technical owner and architect for AgentOps and AXIS platform components.
- Drive system design decisions across scalability, resilience, performance, and security.
- Evaluate tradeoffs and make high-impact architectural calls independently.
- Ensure platform designs align with long-term enterprise and AIAgent strategy.
AgentOps Agentic Systems Engineering
- Design and implement agentic workflows, orchestration, and lifecycle management.
- Extend and optimize Agentic frameworks (planning, memory, tool usage, coordination).
- Build guardrails for reliability, observability, and safe execution of autonomous agents.
- Improve agent runtime performance and operational stability at scale.
- Design and implement solutions using Graph Databases (e.g., Neo4j, Neptune, TigerGraph, JanusGraph, etc.).
- Integrate graph-based knowledge with agentic systems and platform services.
Hands-on Engineering Platform Enablement
- Write and review production-grade code across critical services.
- Build and enhance platform capabilities, APIs, and internal tooling.
- Improve CICD pipelines, automation, and developer productivity tooling.
- Lead debugging and resolution of complex production issues.
Cloud Operational Excellence (AWS)
- Architect and implement cloud-native solutions on AWS.
- Deep hands-on experience with AWS services (e.g., EKS, ECS, Lambda, EC2, S3, DynamoDB, RDS, OpenSearch, IAM).
- Ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and cost-efficient designs.
- Embed observability (logging, metrics, tracing) and operational best practices.
Collaboration and Mentorship
- Partner closely with Engineering Managers, Product, and Platform stakeholders.
- Mentor senior engineers and unblock teams as needed.
- Produce clear architecture docs, runbooks, and design artifacts.
- Ensure strong knowledge transfer before contract completion.
Skills
AWSAWS LambdaDynamoDBEC2EKSECSIAMNeptuneNeo4jOpenSearchRDSS3TigerGraphJanusGraph
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