Senior Applied AI & Agent Engineer

Senior Applied AI & Agent Engineer Location: Wilmington, Delaware Hybrid Work Model- 3 days onsite in Wilmington, DE/ 2 days remote Monday-Friday, 8am-5pm ET

We are looking for a Senior Applied AI & Agent Engineer to build practical AI solutions that automate real business processes. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on turning manual workflows involving email, documents, databases, APIs, ERP/CRM systems, and internal applications into secure, reliable AI-powered automation.

What You’ll Do

* Build production AI agents and AI-enabled applications. * Automate multi-step business workflows using LLMs, APIs, databases, and enterprise systems. * Develop Python/FastAPI services and integrations. * Implement tool/function calling, structured outputs, human approvals, retries, monitoring, and audit trails. * Build RAG solutions for enterprise knowledge and document search. * Integrate vector search using OpenSearch, PostgreSQL/pgvector, or similar technologies. * Deploy and operate AI applications on AWS. * Implement appropriate security, IAM, guardrails, and least-privilege access.

Qualifications

* Strong Python and software engineering experience. * Experience building REST APIs and integrating enterprise systems. * Hands-on experience with LLMs such as OpenAI, Claude, or Amazon Bedrock . * Experience with AI agents, tool/function calling, RAG, and vector search. * Strong SQL/database skills. * AWS experience with services such as Lambda, S3, IAM, API Gateway, CloudWatch, EventBridge/SQS, and Bedrock . * Experience with Docker and CI/CD. * Understanding of AI security, observability, evaluation, and human-in-the-loop workflows. * Experience with Bedrock AgentCore, Bedrock Knowledge Bases, Guardrails, Step Functions, OpenSearch, or pgvector is a plus. * We are looking for a builder who thinks beyond prompts and chatbots and can deliver secure, measurable business automation in production .