Vikara AI
AI

Senior AI Engineer (Agentic Systems)

Vikara AI ·

Actively hiring Posted 4 months ago

About The Role
We are looking for an experienced AI Engineer who specializes in building agents and agentic systems—from task-orchestration agents to workflow automation agents, retrieval-augmented agents, research/coding agents, multimodal agents, and domain-specific autonomous agents.

This is a full-stack AI engineering role, ideal for someone who loves shipping: rapid MVPs → stable production, high ownership, and fast problem-solving. Candidates must have built and deployed at least two AI agents in production in the past 12 months and be comfortable operating in high-velocity environments.

What You’ll Do
Build & Deploy AI Agents

  • Design, build, and ship agentic workflows across multiple domains (research agents, coding assistants, conversational agents (voice, texts, etc), reasoning agents, scheduling agents, analytics agents, workflow automation bots, etc.).
  • Own the end-to-end lifecycle: data ingestion → reasoning → action taking → evaluation → monitoring.
  • Build multi-step agents capable of autonomous planning, context tracking, memory, tool use, and API orchestration.

Agent Architecture & Infrastructure

  • Architect systems using modern agent stacks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, OpenAI Assistants, Model Context Protocol (MCP), custom orchestration).
  • Build robust retrieval pipelines (RAG), vector embeddings, caching layers, and knowledge-grounding systems.
  • Integrate agents with external tools and systems (APIs, SaaS apps, CRMs, internal services, databases, messaging platforms).

Productionization

  • Deploy agents as microservices with proper observability, evals, guardrails, fallbacks, and monitoring.
  • Optimize inference cost, latency, accuracy, and task-completion rates.
  • Run systematic evaluations: function calling accuracy, groundedness, hallucinations, long-context stability.

Collaboration & Product Work

  • Work closely with product managers, domain experts, and engineers to translate business workflows into agent behaviors.
  • Create reusable frameworks and libraries to accelerate subsequent agent builds.
  • Document and evangelize agent best practices internally.

Required
What You Bring

  • 4–7 years of hands-on experience in AI/ML engineering.
  • Successful deployment of at least two production AI agents in the past 12 months (not prototypes).

Expertise In
LLMs: OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Llama, DeepSeek

  • Agent frameworks: LangChain, OpenAI Assistants, custom orchestration, state machines
  • Retrieval (RAG), vector DBs (Pinecone, Weaviate, Chroma, PGVector)
  • API integration & tool-use architectures
  • Python/Node for server-side agent logic
  • Microservice deployments (Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD)
  • Strong debugging skills across distributed systems, prompt engineering, inference optimization, and agent reasoning traces.
  • Comfortable building MVPs in days and scaling them to stable production within weeks/months.

Nice to Have

  • Experience building MCP servers or integrating with MCP tools.
  • Experience with structured function-calling workflows (JSON schema, tool plans, agent graphs).
  • Background in building internal agent frameworks or automation engines.
  • Experience designing evaluation frameworks for agents (task completion metrics, scenario tests).
  • Familiarity with workflow engines (Temporal, Airflow, Prefect).

Success Looks Like
In Your First 3–6 Months, You Will

  • Build and deploy multiple agents that solve real business workflows.
  • Improve accuracy, response quality, and reliability of existing agents.
  • Establish a reusable internal agent framework to increase build velocity.
  • Contribute significantly to cost, latency, and performance improvements.
  • Become a core owner of agentic architecture and experimentation.

Why Join Us

  • Work directly with founders and senior leaders driving AI-first transformation.
  • Build real agents used daily — not research prototypes.
  • High autonomy + high impact environment.
  • Opportunity to shape the foundation of agentic systems across the org.
  • Competitive compensation + massive growth opportunity.

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