AI Engineer
About the role
At AppZen, we are seeking an AI Engineer to help build and scale our next-generation AI platform, with a strong focus on agentic systems. The ideal candidate will design and develop intelligent agents powered by Large Language Models (LLMs), leveraging tool calling, orchestration frameworks, and advanced context management to enable reasoning, planning, and autonomous decision-making across complex workflows.
Responsibilities
- Design and develop intelligent agents powered by LLMs
- Leverage tool calling, orchestration frameworks, and advanced context management
- Work hands-on with modern agentic stacks (e.g., LangGraph, Autogen)
- Asynchronous and streaming architecture expertise, including Temporal and Python/GO programming languages
- Ensure data quality throughout all stages of acquisition and processing
- Manage high-impact projects, triage external requests, and ensure projects are completed in a timely manner
- Excellent written and verbal technical communication skills, communicating proposals and results in a clear manner backed by data and coupled with actionable conclusions to drive business decisions
Requirements
- Experience working on Agentic systems using LLMs, tool calling, model context protocol, tracing observability tools
- Familiarity with Agent orchestration frameworks such as LangGraph, Autogen, or others
- Power user of Agentic coding tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Codex
- Deep understanding of working on asynchronous and streaming system architectures for chat bots and asynchronous agents
- Solid understanding of machine learning fundamentals, and familiarity with standard algorithms and techniques
- Ability to analyze a wide variety of data: structured and unstructured, observational and experimental, to drive system designs and product implementations
- Manage your own process: identify and execute on high impact projects, triage external requests, and make sure you bring projects to conclusion in time for the results to be useful
Qualifications
- BS/MS or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering, Machine Learning, or other relevant technical field
- 5+ years of industry experience
Skills
- Data engineering concepts like data warehouses, streaming data
- Infrastructure engineering and/or devops knowledge on systems such as Kubernetes, AWS
Benefits
AppZen is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The base pay range for this role is posted above. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor.
The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans.
Pay
$160,000 - $210,000 a year
Schedule
Full-time
Benefits
AppZen is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The base pay range for this role is posted above. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor.
The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans.
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