Jobs · Engineering · South Dakota

Lead AI Engineer - Agentic Supply Chain Systems

PortBlueSky · Lead, SD · 1 mo ago
EngineeringFull-time

Role and Responsibilities

  • Build agentic supply-chain systems: Design, implement, and maintain agent workflows that support forecasting, order management, inventory planning, discrepancy detection, and operational recommendations.
  • Own agent orchestration: Build a central orchestration layer that routes tasks, coordinates multiple agents, manages tool and data-source access, and provides a clear user-facing interface.
  • Integrate with enterprise data systems: Connect agentic workflows to ERP data lakes, Lake House architectures, APIs, and existing AWS-hosted infrastructure.
  • Operate beyond prototypes: Ensure systems work on real production data and continue to perform under realistic scale, latency, reliability, and maintenance constraints.
  • Optimize production behavior: Monitor and improve token usage, agent routing, memory use, cost efficiency, scalability, and long-term sustainability.
  • Strengthen security: Implement prompt-security strategies, safe tool execution, access boundaries, and guardrails that prevent system hijacking, accidental destructive actions, or unsafe data loading patterns such as loading entire data sets into agent memory.
  • Use structured data contracts: Apply Pydantic models and validated input/output schemas so multi-agent systems remain predictable, typed, and auditable.
  • Create evaluation into the system: Develop benchmarks, regression checks, reliability tests, and model-upgrade evaluations that track accuracy and behavior over time.
  • Lead through knowledge: Act as a senior IC, mentor, coach, and point of contact for agentic AI guidance across the project and occasionally across other teams.
  • Upskill the team: Help junior AI engineers and adjacent engineering teams understand agentic-system design, limitations, risks, and production practices.

About You

  • Significant production experience building, running, and maintaining large agentic AI systems.
  • Hands-on experience with Google ADK, LangChain, or LangGraph. Google ADK is preferred, and strong LangChain or LangGraph experience is also highly relevant.
  • Strong Python skills. Node.js experience is acceptable where supported by deep agentic-system expertise.
  • Strong understanding of Lake House architecture and enterprise data-platform integration.
  • Knowledge of MCPs, data-source orchestration, tool access patterns, and safe interaction with external systems.
  • Experience optimizing token usage and identifying inefficient or risky agent execution paths.
  • Experience with prompt injection risks, prompt security strategies, permissions, guardrails, and production safety patterns.
  • Experience using Pydantic or similar structured validation approaches for reliable agent input and output.
  • Knowledge of evaluation approaches for agentic applications, including small benchmarks, regression testing, reliability checks, and model-upgrade tracking.
  • Familiarity with AI coding agents such as Claude or Cursor, including their practical limitations and how to use them efficiently.
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to lead through expertise, mentoring, and clear technical guidance.
  • Fluent English and comfort working in an international, remote-first team.
  • EU residency and permission to work in the EU.

Nice to Have

  • Experience with Microsoft Fabric or Databricks.
  • Strong experience with Snowflake, AWS Redshift, or Google BigQuery.
  • Familiarity with AWS Bedrock and Bedrock Agent Core evaluation features.
  • Experience with supply-chain systems, forecasting, order management, inventory planning, or discrepancy-monitoring workflows.
  • Experience designing dashboard-based AI interfaces for operations teams.
  • Experience mentoring junior AI engineers or acting as a technical point of contact across multiple teams.

Technologies & Tools You May Work With

  • Python
  • Node.js
  • Google ADK
  • LangChain
  • LangGraph
  • MCP
  • Pydantic
  • AWS
  • AWS Bedrock
  • Lake House architectures
  • Microsoft Fabric
  • Databricks
  • Snowflake
  • AWS Redshift
  • Google BigQuery
  • ERP data lakes
  • Supply-chain APIs
  • AI coding agents such as Claude or Cursor

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