AI Engineer, Agentic Development

AI Engineer, Agentic Development

Location :-Seattle, WA

Work Arrangement: Onsite preferred; hybrid considered

About the Role

We are hiring two AI Engineers to join a strategic agentic AI engagement with a leading specialty retailer. This is a hands-on build role embedded with the client's engineering team, focused on shipping production agentic systems that automate real business workflows.

The role requires designing, building, and evaluating multi-agent systems — from agent orchestration and tool design through evaluation and context management. The right person is comfortable owning the full lifecycle of an agent's development: from design through production deployment, working from requirements the client has already scoped.

*This is a short-term, high-visibility engagement with potential to extend or convert as the client's AI program grows.*

What You'll Do

· Design and build production agents and multi-agent orchestration systems — not prototypes or one-off experiments.

· Apply sound judgment on agentic design trade-offs: orchestration patterns, multi-agent coordination, tool design, and MCP (Model Context Protocol) integration considerations.

· Build and run programmatic evaluations for agents: metrics, offline/online evals, and failure-mode analysis.

· Apply context engineering practices: context assembly, memory/state management, and context handling under token, latency, and cost constraints.

· Ship production-ready code through the full SDLC, working largely independently from requirements the client's team has already defined.

· Partner with client engineers and stakeholders; stay cognizant of end-customer and user experience even when requirements are handed off rather than gathered directly.

· Contribute to engineering standards and help raise the broader team's working fluency with generative AI by example.

Required Skills & Experience

· Software Engineering: 8+ years of experien