Sr. Agentic AI/Automation Engineer

About the role

A well-known Financial Services Company is seeking a Sr. Agentic AI/Automation Engineer in Charlotte, NC / Irving, TX (Onsite).

Responsibilities

• Work with the brightest minds at one of the largest financial institutions in the world.
• Lead moderately complex initiatives and deliverables within technical engineering environments.
• Contribute to large scale planning of strategies across Consumer Technology.
• Design, code, test, debug, and document applications and services including upgrades and deployments.
• Review technical challenges that require in depth evaluation of technologies, procedures, and engineering approaches.
• Resolve moderately complex issues while guiding teams to meet existing and emerging business needs.
• Collaborate with peers, colleagues, and mid level managers to resolve technical challenges and meet project goals.
• Lead projects and act as an escalation point, providing direction to less experienced engineers.
• Design, develop, and deploy AI applications using enterprise APIs, LLMs, agent frameworks, and related technologies.
• Implement prompt engineering, retrieval augmented generation, fine tuning, and agentic design patterns.
• Integrate LLM models with existing enterprise systems and ensure that AI solutions meet governance, security, and compliance standards.
• Troubleshoot complex application and model related issues and contribute to the continuous improvement of AI systems.
• Assist and mentor engineers in advanced software development and AI engineering practices.
• Stay informed of advancements in AI, LLMs, and agent frameworks and apply relevant updates to products and systems.
• Consult on complex initiatives with broad impact and large-scale planning for Software Engineering.
• Review and analyze complex multi-faceted, larger scale or longer-term Software Engineering challenges that require in-depth evaluation of multiple factors including intangibles or unprecedented factors.
• Contribute to the resolution of complex and multi-faceted situations requiring solid understanding of the function, policies, procedures, and compliance requirements that meet deliverables.
• Strategically collaborate and consult with client personnel.

Requirements

• 5+ years of Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work or consulting experience, training, military experience, education.
• 4+ years of software engineering experience or equivalent through a combination of work experience, training, military service, or education
• 2+ years of experience working with Generative AI, large language models, or foundation models
• 2+ years of experience with either GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, or OpenShift
• 2+ years of experience with Python
• 2+ years of experience with REST API development and containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
• 2+ years of experience using Git for source code version control, including branching, pull requests, and collaborative development workflows
• Understanding of cloud security principles including identity and access management, encryption, and network security in public or hybrid cloud environments
• Experience working in highly regulated industries such as financial services
• Experience as a technical lead or architect, including mentoring senior engineers
• Experience integrating or contributing to open source AI or ML projects
• Experience integrating applications with enterprise data platforms, APIs, and secure data pipelines
• Strong communication and documentation skills to collaborate across engineering, product, and oversight teams
• Experience with Power Platform, including Power Apps and Dataverse
• Experience with UiPath or other enterprise automation tools
• Experience with LLM development using OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google Gemini models
• Experience with agentic frameworks and AI workflow orchestration
• Experience designing applications that incorporate retrieval augmented generation, fine tuning, and structured prompting
• Experience with vector databases and retrieval systems such as Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Pinecone, or Weaviate
• Experience with LLM evaluation, observability, and monitoring including latency, cost, accuracy, grounding, drift detection, and safety assessments
• Familiarity with ML lifecycle tools and processes such as feature stores, model registries, and CI or CD pipelines for AI services
• Familiarity with responsible AI principles, compliance, and governance processes related to AI systems in regulated environments
• Experience optimizing AI application performance including prompt efficiency, model selection, caching, batching, and cost management

Qualifications

• Medical Insurance - Four medical plans to choose from for you and your family
• Dental & Orthodontia Benefits
• Vision Benefits
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Health and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Voluntary Life Insurance, Long-Term & Short-Term Disability Insurance
• Hospital Indemnity Insurance
• 401(k) including match with pre and post-tax options
• Paid Sick Time Leave
• Legal and Identity Protection Plans
• Pre-tax Commuter Benefit
• 529 College Saver Plan

Skills

• Generative AI, large language models, or foundation models
• GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, or OpenShift
• Python
• REST API development and containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Git for source code version control
• Cloud security principles including identity and access management, encryption, and network security in public or hybrid cloud environments
• Highly regulated industries such as financial services
• Technical lead or architect experience
• Open source AI or ML projects experience
• Enterprise data platforms, APIs, and secure data pipelines integration experience
• Power Platform, including Power Apps and Dataverse
• UiPath or other enterprise automation tools experience
• LLM development using OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google Gemini models
• Agentic frameworks and AI workflow orchestration experience
• Retrieval augmented generation, fine tuning, and structured prompting experience
• Vector databases and retrieval systems such as Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Pinecone, or Weaviate
• LLM evaluation, observability, and monitoring including latency, cost, accuracy, grounding, drift detection, and safety assessments
• ML lifecycle tools and processes such as feature stores, model registries, and CI or CD pipelines for AI services
• Responsible AI principles, compliance, and governance processes related to AI systems in regulated environments
• Optimizing AI application performance including prompt efficiency, model selection, caching, batching, and cost management

Benefits

• Medical Insurance - Four medical plans to choose from for you and your family
• Dental & Orthodontia Benefits
• Vision Benefits
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Health and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Voluntary Life Insurance, Long-Term & Short-Term Disability Insurance
• Hospital Indemnity Insurance
• 401(k) including match with pre and post-tax options
• Paid Sick Time Leave
• Legal and Identity Protection Plans
• Pre-tax Commuter Benefit
• 529 College Saver Plan

Pay

• $69.5/hr - $76.16/hr

Schedule

• Onsite