Nexteer Automotive

Agentic Engineer II

Nexteer Automotive$90K — $120K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 2+ years of experience with AI & Agentic Frameworks, specifically LLMs and orchestration frameworks like LangChain or CrewAI.
  • Proficiency in Python or TypeScript for rapid AI integration.
  • Experience with REST APIs and integrating various systems such as GitHub or Slack.
  • Familiarity with vector databases and prompt engineering techniques for efficient data handling.
  • Strong problem-solving skills, capable of making analytical decisions.

Responsibilities

  • Ideate and build proof-of-concepts for AI-driven engineering tools.
  • Collaborate with Product Engineering to optimize workflows through AI solutions.
  • Utilize LLMs and agentic frameworks to develop autonomous workflows.
  • Automate and refine engineering pipelines in collaboration with other teams.
  • Conduct rapid experiments to iterate and improve prototypes.
  • Document patterns that enhance the team's AI use case library.
  • Evaluate new tools through practical application and real-world context.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work schedule allowing flexibility.
  • Opportunity to work in a fast-paced, innovative environment.
  • Access to cutting-edge AI technologies and frameworks.
  • Emphasis on a fail-fast philosophy promoting learning and agility.
Full Job Description
Agentic Engineer - Build, Experiment & Ship

About the Role:

Are you fascinated by the power of AI agents to transform how engineering teams work? Do you thrive in a high-velocity environment where you can build, test, and iterate on wild ideas in days rather than months?

We are looking for AI Agentic Development Engineers to join and build a new Applied AI team. In this role, you won't just be maintaining legacy systems, you will be the ultimate accelerator for our cross-functional engineering teams. Your mission is to design, develop, and deploy rapid prototypes of AI-driven tools and agentic workflows that automate complex tasks, eliminate friction, and radically optimize our engineering processes.

We operate on a philosophy of learning fast, failing fast, and delivering faster. If you are a bias-for-action developer who thinks outside the box and measures success by working code and measurable efficiency gains, we want you to be on our team.

This is an individual contributor role and the selected candidate will have the opportunity to work a hybrid schedule.

Key Responsibilities

As an Agentic Engineer II, you will be responsible to:
  • Ideate, architect, and build proof-of-concepts (PoCs) for AI-powered engineering tools, multi-agent systems, and automation scripts.
  • Partner closely with Product Engineering teams to deeply understand their workflows, identify bottlenecks, and embed AI solutions where they matter most.
  • Leverage LLMs, vector databases, and agentic frameworks (e.g., LangChain, CrewAI, AutoGen) to build autonomous workflows capable of reasoning, tool-use, and decision-making.
  • Refine and automate multi-disciplinary engineering pipelines within Product Engineering.
  • Run rapid experiments: hypothesis 12 prototype 12 deploy 12 evaluate 12 iterate
  • Embrace a fail-fast approach - short cycles, quick learning, and moving on with better information
  • Containerize and self-host solutions - taking full ownership from development through deployment
  • Evaluate tools and models through hands-on use, not benchmarks alone
  • Identify what scales and what doesn't based on real-world deployment behavior
  • Document validated patterns that contribute to the team's shared AI use case library
  • Think in terms of scale: how do I share my work, knowledge, and practices with others so they can join the mission


Qualifications
  • Minimum of 2+ years of experience in the following:
  • AI & Agentic Frameworks: Hands-on experience working with LLMs (OpenAI, Anthropic, open-source models) and orchestration frameworks like LangChain, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, or similar.
  • Programming Mastery: Proficiency in Python, TypeScript, or similar languages optimized for fast development and AI integration.
  • APIs & Integrations: Strong experience connecting disparate systems via REST APIs, webhooks, and SDKs (e.g., integrating AI agents with GitHub, Jira, Slack, or internal engineering tools).
  • Data Foundations: Familiarity with RAG, vector embeddings, vector databases (e.g., Pinecone, Chroma, Milvus), and prompt engineering techniques.
  • Workflow Automation Architecture: n8n, LangGraph, CrewAI, ChromaDB, and Docker.
  • Ability to make complex and analytical decisions and recommendations to management.
  • Strong problem solving/analytical skills, where problems are complex
  • Excellent oral & written communication skills
  • Strong interpersonal skills
  • Conflict resolution & risk escalation skills
  • Excellent leadership skills in a team environment
  • Experience with the product development process
  • Understanding of technical & commercial aspects


Additional Things We're Looking For
  • Navigate ambiguity to make decisions and deliver completed work, maintaining momentum even when conditions are not fully defined.
  • Take initiative to begin work with partial information, iterating and refining requirements as insights evolve.
  • You're naturally curious and self-directed - you build things because you want to understand how they work, not just because it's on a task list.
  • You've containerized, self-hosted, and deployed real projects. You've seen something work perfectly in a local environment and behave differently in production - and that experience has made you a better engineer.
  • The clearest signal: you have something running somewhere that isn't your own machine. You stay current with AI tools by using them, not just reading about them.
  • We're more interested in what you've built than what's on your resume. Share something you've deployed - a repository, a live URL, or a brief walkthrough. Tell us what didn't go as planned and what you took away from it.


Education Requirements
  • Masters degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Data Science, Data Analytics, Information Systems, Information Science or Machine Learning required

About Nexteer Automotive

Nexteer Automotive is a global automotive supplier that specializes in developing and manufacturing steering and driveline systems. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Saginaw, Michigan. Nexteer Automotive has a presence in over 50 countries and has partnerships with many of the world's leading automakers. The company's products include electric power steering systems, hydraulic power steering systems, and driveline systems. Nexteer Automotive is committed to sustainability and has implemented a number of initiatives to reduce its environmental impact, including the use of renewable energy sources and the reduction of waste and emissions.
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11,900 employees
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1906
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