We are seeking an AI Engineer to help design, build, and deliver next-generation AI-enabled applications and agentic systems. This role combines hands-on engineering across frontend applications, Python backend services, MCP infrastructure, agent workflows, and secure enterprise integrations.
As an AI Engineer, you will build user-facing applications and backend services that integrate withModel Context Protocol (MCP) servers, LLM-based applications, RAG-based retrieval systems, and agent orchestration platforms. You will work closely with AI developers, platform engineers, product teams, and other stakeholders to deliver scalable, secure, observable, and production-ready AI solutions.
This engineering role is suited for candidates who can contribute across the full stack while also helping shape reusable patterns for MCP-enabled tools, skills, and agent-driven workflows.
In this role you will
- Design, build, and maintainAI-enabled applicationsusing React, TypeScript, Python, and modern API frameworks.
- Developfrontend applicationsaligned with enterprise UI standards and reusable component patterns.
- Build and maintainPython backend services, APIs, MCP services, and integration layersusing frameworks such as MCP, FastAPI & Flask.
- Design, implement, and integrate withMCP servers and MCP clientsthat enable secure context sharing between models, tools, applications, and agent runtimes.
- Develop and support agentic workflows that execute complex, multi-step tasks using frameworks such as LangChain Deep Agents, Google ADK, or similar agent frameworks.
- Buildskill-based and modular agentsthat decompose capabilities into reusable, composable, and versioned skills.
- Build reusable components, services, tool schemas, and integration patterns that can be shared across enterprise AI applications.
- Integrate logging, tracing, and observability frameworks, including Arize & Splunk compatible logging and agent observability tooling.
- Ensure applications and services are ready for deployment on enterprise container platforms such as OpenShift or Kubernetes.
- Collaborate with AI developers, platform engineers, product teams, and architecture partners to deliver robust and scalable AI solutions.
- Deliver end-to-end AI application features using MCP services, and agent orchestration layers.
- Own and contribute toMCP service implementations, including tool schema design, tool registration, API integration, authorization enforcement, and deployment readiness.
- Build and maintain MCP-compatible tools, skills, APIs, and UI componentsfor use across AI applications and agent runtimes.
- Integrate AI-powered user interfaces withbackend APIs, MCP servers, RAG systems, and agent workflows.
- Implement RBAC policies governing which users, agents, clients, and applications can invoke specific tools or services.
- Develop agent workflows that support complex user objectives throughmcp & skill orchestration.
- Align solutions with enterprise platform standards, including application scaffolding, security, observability, logging, testing, and deployment practices.
- Ensure frontend applications are performant, accessible, maintainable, and aligned with reusable design patterns.
- Ensure backend and AI services are scalable, observable, secure, and ready for deployment on OpenShift or Kubernetes-based environments.
- Write and maintain technical documentation, integration guides, API specifications, and operational runbooks.
- Contribute to engineering best practices, including code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, monitoring, and production support readines
- Specialty Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
- Strong proficiency inPythonwith experience building services using frameworks such asFast MCP, FastAPI & Flask.
- Experience developing and integrating withREST APIs, asynchronous services, and event-driven architectures.
- Experience integrating withAI, LLM-based systems, agent platforms, or AI APIs.
- Experience withReact and TypeScriptfor building frontend applications.
- Experience withauthentication, authorization, and access controlpatterns, including SSO, OAuth 2.0, API keys, token-based access, RBAC, and scopes.
- Experience building or integrating withMCP servers &understanding ofMCP protocol, including tool registration, schemas, message flows, clients, servers, and lifecycle patterns.
- Experience developingagent-driven workflowsusing frameworks such as LangChain, Google ADK, or similar orchestration frameworks.
- Experience frontend fundamentals, includingHTML, CSS, JavaScript, browser rendering, DOM APIs, and performance tuning.
- Experience with automated testing withPlaywright, performance testing, code reviews, and CI/CD practices.
- Experience building secure, scalable, maintainable applications aligned with enterprise platform standards.
- Experience building MCP servers using FastMCP or similar Python-based MCP frameworks.
- Experience designingMCP-compatible tools, reusable skills, and modular agent capabilities.
- Familiarity withtool schema designand structured output validation using tools such as Pydantic, JSON Schema, or Zod.
- Experience withlong-running autonomous agentsthat support retries, state persistence, error recovery, graceful termination, and multi-step workflow execution. Experience withRAG-based retrieval systems, vector search, embeddings, or enterprise knowledge retrieval patterns.
- Experience withagent observability and tracingtools such as LangSmith, OpenTelemetry, Arize, or similar platforms.
- Exposure toSplunk or enterprise observability frameworks.
- Experience withDocker, OpenShift, Kubernetes, or similar containerization and deployment platforms.
- Experience withCopilot Studio, Microsoft Teams UI integration, or conversational application platforms.
- Knowledge of prompt engineering, skill engineering, and knowledge graphs such as llm_wiki and OKF.
- Familiarity with secure enterprise software delivery, platform governance, and reusable engineering standards.
- This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship
- Relocation assistance is not available for this position
- Position offers a hybrid work schedule
26 Sep 2026
*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
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Skills Required
- Specialty software engineering experience (work experience, training, military experience, or education)
- Strong proficiency in Python and building services using frameworks such as FastMCP, FastAPI, or Flask
- Experience developing and integrating REST APIs, asynchronous services, and event-driven architectures
- Experience integrating with AI, LLM-based systems, agent platforms, or AI APIs
- Experience building frontend applications using React and TypeScript
- Frontend fundamentals including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, browser rendering, DOM APIs, and performance tuning
- Experience with authentication and authorization patterns (SSO, OAuth 2.0, API keys, token-based access, RBAC, scopes)
- Experience building or integrating with MCP servers and understanding MCP protocol, tool registration, schemas, message flows, clients, servers, lifecycle patterns
- Experience developing agent-driven workflows using frameworks such as LangChain or Google ADK
- Experience with automated testing (Playwright), performance testing, code reviews, and CI/CD practices
- Experience building secure, scalable, maintainable applications aligned with enterprise platform standards
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is anchored by a dollar‑for‑dollar 401(k) match on employee contributions after one year of service, with an additional non‑matching company contribution for some lower‑paid employees. Access to an employee stock purchase plan further expands long‑term savings opportunities.
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Parental & Family Support — Family supports include up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave available from the first day of employment, plus paid critical‑caregiving leave and extensive backup care options. Fertility, adoption, and surrogacy programs are highlighted with meaningful coverage and reimbursements, including a combined lifetime maximum up to $35,000 for eligible expenses.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is comprehensive from day one, spanning medical, dental, vision, mental health, prescriptions, and preventive care often fully covered in‑network. Employer cost‑sharing is emphasized alongside no‑cost counseling through the EAP within plan limits.
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