We’re seeking a AI Engineer to design and ship production-grade agentic AI systems that automate complex workflows end-to-end. This is a hands-on role with significant technical ownership. You’ll work closely with the Chief Architect, product, engineering, and domain experts to translate ambiguous, high-impact problems into reliable AI-driven user experiences.
What success looks like:
Ship AI capabilities that measurably improve user outcomes (quality, time saved, throughput)
Build systems that are reliable by design: evals, observability, safety, and cost/latency controls from day one
Iterate quickly using a tight loop of instrument → evaluate → improve → deploy
What You’ll Do
Agentic AI Feature & Workflow Development
Build and integrate AI-driven features using LLM APIs (OpenAI / Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini on Vertex AI)
Design and implement tool-using agents (structured function calling, schema validation, retries, fallbacks)
Build multi-agent workflows when appropriate (e.g., planner/worker, reviewer/critic, specialist routing) and know when a simpler architecture is better
Create agentic workflows such as document understanding, extraction, reasoning over evidence, task automation, and multi-step decision support
Own context engineering end-to-end:
dynamic context assembly (retrieval + state + tool outputs)
context budgeting and compression/summarization
grounding strategies to reduce hallucinations and improve consistency
Implement retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and search workflows using off-the-shelf vector stores and embedding services
Evaluation, Quality & Iteration (Core)
Establish evaluation frameworks for accuracy, reliability, and output quality
Build task-specific eval suites: golden datasets, adversarial cases, regression tests, and rubric-based scoring
Set up automated evaluation pipelines and release gates (CI/CD-friendly) tied to prompt/model/version changes
Define and monitor online metrics (e.g., task success rate, human override rate, safety flags, latency, cost) and run experiments/A-B tests where appropriate
Use LLM-as-judge responsibly: calibrate, validate, and pair with human labels when needed
Engineering, Integration & Observability
Develop scalable backend services and APIs that incorporate AI functionality
Integrate AI pipelines into existing cloud, microservices, and event-driven architectures
Implement observability and analytics for all AI features (tracing, evaluations, prompt versioning, cost tracking) Example tooling: Langfuse (and/or OpenTelemetry-compatible stacks)
Ensure reliability, uptime, performance, and security of AI services
Build internal tooling for evaluation, testing, prompt/version management, and safe deployment
Product & Collaboration
Partner with product managers, designers, the Chief Architect, and domain SMEs to shape AI-first solutions
Rapidly prototype concepts and iterate based on user feedback and measurable eval results
Translate business problems into well-structured AI workflows without requiring ML model training
Document system behavior, known failure modes, and operational playbooks
Governance & Safety
Implement guardrails, checks, and fallback logic for safe and predictable AI behavior
Help define and follow compliance, privacy, and responsible AI guidelines
Deep hands-on experience building agentic LLM systems from first principles: agent loops, tool interfaces, planning/replanning, memory/state, and failure handling
Deep hands-on experience building agentic LLM systems from first principles: agent loops, tool interfaces, planning/replanning, memory/state, and failure handling; Practical experience with LLM APIs (OpenAI/Azure OpenAI/Anthropic/Gemini) and AI orchestration frameworks
Department · Research & Development
OI
Hiring company
Onit, Inc.
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