Senior Agentic AI Software Engineer

LTS

$130K — $160K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, AI, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
  • 7+ years of software engineering experience with distributed production systems.
  • 3+ years of experience in deploying production AI applications.
  • Strong proficiency in Python and backend software engineering.
  • Experience in building enterprise APIs and cloud-native applications.
  • Hands-on experience with Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI applications.
  • Strong experience in designing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and deploy autonomous AI systems for reasoning and collaboration.
  • Build orchestration pipelines for LLMs and enterprise tools.
  • Optimize RAG pipelines for document ingestion and semantic search.
  • Integrate AI systems with enterprise APIs and knowledge repositories.
  • Design scalable backend services and cloud-native applications.
  • Implement testing and monitoring to ensure AI reliability.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver AI experiences.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to support high-visibility federal missions.
  • Innovative and collaborative company culture.
  • Access to cutting-edge tools and technologies.
  • Comprehensive family benefits.
  • Career path that rewards ambition and performance.
Full Job Description
Location: United States - Remote
Clearance: Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust

What You'll Do:

Build Intelligent Agentic Systems
  • Design, develop, and deploy autonomous and multi-agent AI systems capable of reasoning, planning, tool use, workflow automation, and human-in-the-loop collaboration.
  • Build intelligent orchestration pipelines coordinating LLMs, specialized agents, enterprise tools, and structured reasoning workflows.
  • Develop reusable agent architectures and orchestration patterns that accelerate intelligent application development across the platform.

Engineer Enterprise Retrieval & Knowledge Systems
  • Design and optimize Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines including document ingestion, embeddings, hybrid retrieval, reranking, semantic search, context engineering, and prompt orchestration.
  • Integrate AI systems with source code repositories, enterprise documentation, APIs, structured data, and knowledge repositories.
  • Ensure every AI-generated response is explainable, evidence-based, and traceable to authoritative sources.

Build Production Software
  • Design and implement scalable backend services, APIs, and cloud-native applications supporting enterprise AI workloads.
  • Develop distributed systems capable of serving low-latency AI experiences while maintaining security, reliability, and observability.
  • Optimize performance, latency, throughput, model quality, and infrastructure cost across production AI systems.

Deliver Reliable AI
  • Implement testing, evaluation, monitoring, observability, guardrails, and LLMOps practices to ensure AI systems remain trustworthy and production-ready.
  • Continuously evaluate emerging models, frameworks, and engineering practices to improve platform capabilities.
  • Build AI systems that behave predictably in highly regulated enterprise environments.

Collaborate Across the Product Team
  • Partner closely with AI architects, platform engineers, front-end engineers, designers, and product leaders to deliver cohesive AI-powered experiences.
  • Mentor engineers through technical leadership, architecture discussions, design reviews, and collaborative problem solving.
  • Help establish engineering standards, reusable frameworks, and best practices across the AI engineering organization.

What We're Looking For:
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Engineering, or a related technical discipline (or equivalent professional experience).
  • 7+ years of professional software engineering experience designing and building distributed production systems.
  • At least 3 years designing, developing, and deploying production AI applications beyond proof-of-concept environments.
  • Strong proficiency in Python and modern backend software engineering.
  • Experience building enterprise APIs, microservices, and cloud-native applications.
  • Hands-on experience developing applications powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI.
  • Experience building Agentic AI solutions using frameworks such as LangGraph, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Semantic Kernel, AutoGen, CrewAI, or comparable technologies.
  • Strong experience designing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures including embeddings, vector search, hybrid retrieval, reranking, context engineering, and grounding techniques.
  • Experience integrating AI systems with enterprise APIs, databases, cloud platforms, and business applications.
  • Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Git, CI/CD pipelines, and modern DevOps practices.
  • Strong understanding of software architecture, testing, observability, debugging, and production operations.
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both engineering and business stakeholders.
  • Ability to solve difficult engineering problems from first principles.
  • Ability to think deeply about system architecture, reliability, and scalability.
  • Passionate about explainability as model performance.
  • Ability to move comfortably between distributed systems, AI frameworks, and product engineering.
  • Willingness to take ownership of ambiguous, high-impact technical challenges.
  • Background with using AI coding assistants, autonomous agents, and model-driven engineering workflows.
  • A technically skilled engineer with a preference for building products that create lasting impact over incremental feature development.

Nice to Have:
  • Experience developing multi-agent AI systems and collaborative agent workflows.
  • Experience with OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Vertex AI, AWS Bedrock, or open-source LLMs.
  • Experience with vector databases such as Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant, Milvus, or Azure AI Search.
  • Experience implementing LLMOps or MLOps practices.
  • Familiarity with graph databases, knowledge graphs, or dependency analysis.
  • Experience working with software engineering tools, code intelligence platforms, or developer productivity products.
  • Experience building AI systems in healthcare, Federal Government, or other highly regulated environments.
  • Familiarity with Responsible AI, AI governance, privacy, security, and compliance best practices.
  • Experience using AI coding assistants and autonomous agents as part of daily software development.

What's In It for You?
  • The Opportunity to support high-visibility federal missions
  • A culture that values innovation, growth, and collaboration
  • Access to cutting-edge tools and technologies
  • Comprehensive benefits for you and your family
  • A career path that rewards ambition and performance

If you're ready to push boundaries, sharpen your skills, and join a team that is passionate about building what's next, we'd love to meet you. Apply today and let's build a future together!

LTS shares salary ranges to promote transparency. Compensation ranges are provided for informational purposes, and final compensation may vary based on experience, skills, location, and role requirements.

LTS is committed to offering eligible employees comprehensive benefits that will provide them with options intended to meet their needs and the needs of their family.

Similar Jobs

More Jobs at LTS

More Enterprise Technology Jobs

Find similar Senior Agentic AI Software Engineer jobs: