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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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