Python Developer | Wilmington/New York, US

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, with demonstrated experience building and shipping production systems.
• Hands-on production experience with agentic AI or GenAI applications, including deployment, monitoring, debugging, and operating agents at scale.
• Comfortable in a senior contract delivery model where the expectation is faster delivery and limited ramp-up investment.
• Core expectations (must have exposure across all):
• Software engineering: Proficiency in Python (preferred) or Java, with solid fundamentals (clean coding, testing, APIs, debugging, performance, and maintainability).
• Cloud engineering: Working knowledge of at least one public cloud provider — AWS preferred —including hands-on familiarity with deploying/running services, IAM/security basics, logging/monitoring, and common managed services.
• AI/ML exposure: Practical exposure to AI/ML concepts and workflows (e.g., model integration patterns, basic ML lifecycle understanding, evaluation basics), sufficient to ramp into agent development with minimal hand-holding.
• Preferred experience (strong differentiators):
• Hands-on experience integrating with frontier model APIs (e.g., OpenAI or similar), including prompt design, tool/function calling, streaming, and reliability/cost considerations.
• Familiarity with advanced agent architecture concepts such as memory, guardrails/assurance, and MCP (Model Context Protocol) or similar patterns for tool interoperability.
• Experience with conversational/agent frameworks or platforms, such as LangGraph, CrewAI, Rasa, Decagon, or equivalent orchestration frameworks, including building multi-step workflows and tool-based agents

• Experience with LangGraph as a production orchestration layer.
• Experience with vLLM or comparable model-serving infrastructure.
• Experience in regulated-industry or financial-services technology environments, especially where enterprise scale and production-path stakes are important.
• Experience working with business stakeholders to deliver end-to-end AI use cases, not only platform or prototype work.
• Ability to operate in an onsite or hybrid delivery model, especially in a market such as NYC where the attachment notes a deeper finance-AI contractor pool.
• Position the role as a senior contract role with a production-delivery bar, not as an entry-level GenAI experimentation role.
• A 12-month engagement is reasonable for senior contractors, though onsite expectations may narrow the candidate pool.
• If submissions are limited, relax requirements in this order: Java first, onsite days second, and do not relax the production-experience bar.

• Can clearly describe at least one agentic AI system they personally helped ship to production.
• Can explain failure modes, monitoring, debugging, and operational lessons learned from a shipped system.
• Has strong Python capability and either strong Java experience or willingness to work daily with a Java service layer.
• Has practical experience with LangChain, LangGraph, Kubernetes, or comparable production AI infrastructure.
• Demonstrates ability to own use cases end-to-end with business stakeholders.

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We are seeking a Senior AI Engineer, Agentic Systems to design, build, and operate production-grade agentic AI solutions for enterprise-scale use cases.

This role requires hands-on experience shipping AI systems into production, operating them reliably, debugging real-world failure modes, and exposing enterprise capabilities as tools or skills for LLM-powered agents.

The ideal candidate combines strong Python engineering, practical agent orchestration experience, and the ability to partner with business stakeholders to own use cases from concept through production delivery.

Minimum Compensation: USD 42,000 Maximum Compensation: USD 147,000 Compensation is based on actual experience and qualifications of the candidate.

The above is a reasonable and a good faith estimate for the role.

Medical, vision, and dental benefits, 401k retirement plan, variable pay/incentives, paid time off, and paid holidays are available for full-time employees.

This position is available for independent contractors No applications will be considered if received more than 120 days after the date of this post.