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Principal / Senior AI Engineer (Agentic AI | Python | AWS)

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Richmond · Hybrid Contract Senior 3w ago

About the role

Role Overview

We are seeking a highly experienced Principal / Senior AI Engineer to join a fast-paced, cross-functional engineering team within a leading enterprise organization. This is a hands-on builder role focused on designing and delivering Agentic AI solutions and transforming Generative AI prototypes into scalable, production-grade systems.

The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in Python full-stack development, LLMs, and AWS cloud architecture, along with proven experience building reliable, secure, and high-performance AI-driven applications.

Key Responsibilities

Agentic AI & Application Development:

  • Design, develop, and deploy AI-driven applications and multi-agent systems using frameworks like LangChain, LangGraph, and CrewAI
  • Build agentic workflows to automate complex engineering and business processes

RAG & LLM Engineering:

  • Develop and optimize Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines using Amazon Bedrock and vector databases (OpenSearch, Pinecone)
  • Work with LLMs (GPT, Claude, Llama) for real-world enterprise use cases
  • Implement LLM orchestration, tool usage, and function calling

Full-Stack & Backend Development:

  • Develop scalable applications using Python (frontend & backend), FastAPI, Pydantic, and async programming
  • Enable real-time AI capabilities including streaming responses and APIs

AI Integration & Enterprise Systems:

  • Integrate AI solutions with enterprise platforms such as ServiceNow, CMDB, and JIRA
  • Collaborate with frontend teams (React) to deliver intuitive AI-powered user experiences

Responsible AI & Governance:

  • Implement guardrails including prompt engineering, content moderation, bias detection, and output validation
  • Ensure compliance with enterprise security and AI governance standards

Observability, Evaluation & MLOps:

  • Build evaluation frameworks using Ragas, DeepEval
  • Implement observability using LangSmith, OpenTelemetry
  • Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for AI/ML workflows, prompt versioning, and deployment

Engineering Excellence:

  • Contribute to system design, architecture, and best practices
  • Provide technical leadership and AI expertise across teams
  • Drive improvements in engineering and operational excellence

Required Qualifications

  • 10+ years of overall software engineering experience
  • 7+ years of strong hands-on experience with Python (full-stack/backend)
  • 2+ years of hands-on experience in AI / Generative AI / LLMs
  • 5+ years of experience with AWS cloud (Bedrock, SageMaker, Lambda, etc.)
  • Proven experience building scalable, production-grade applications
  • Strong knowledge of system design, distributed systems, and backend architecture

Technical Skills:

  • AI / GenAI: GPT-series, Claude, Llama, Hugging Face Transformers, PEFT
  • Agent Frameworks: LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, multi-agent systems, tool usage, function calling
  • Backend / Full Stack: Python 3.10+, FastAPI, Pydantic, Async programming
  • Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS (Bedrock, SageMaker, Lambda, RDS, pgvector), Serverless architecture
  • Vector Databases: OpenSearch, Pinecone
  • Observability & Evaluation: LangSmith, OpenTelemetry, Ragas, DeepEval

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience building production-grade AI/ML platforms
  • Hands-on experience with LLM fine-tuning
  • Experience with multi-agent AI systems
  • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and MLOps practices
  • Prior Experience With Client (highly Preferred)
  • Experience with enterprise-scale integrations and platforms

Skills

AWS BedrockAWS LambdaAWS SageMakerAsync programmingClaudeCrewAIDeepEvalFastAPIGPTHugging Face TransformersLangChainLangGraphLangSmithLlamaLLMsMLOpsOpenSearchOpenTelemetryPEFTPineconePrompt engineeringPydanticPythonRagasReactRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)SageMakerServerless architectureServiceNowSystem designTool usage

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