Lead AI Engineer withAI agent logic

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Lead AI Engineer with AI agent logic

Chicago IL(Day 1 Onsite)

Long Term

Exp: 12+ years

Role Summary

Design and implement AI agent logic for an enterprise Agentic AI platform, focusing on multistep reasoning, tool usage, and safe, reviewable agent behavior.

Good to Have

• Exposure to enterprise automation platforms

MustHave Technical Skills

• 12 + years software / backend engineering experience

• Strong Python

• Handson experience building AI agents

• Hands-on experience building RAG solutions and Knowledge Graph based solutions Azure AI search, Neo4j

• Experience with agent frameworks (LangGraph, LangChain Agents, or equivalent)

• Experience designing multistep, stateful workflows

• Experience integrating agents with external tools via APIs

• Strong REST API and service integration skills

Key Responsibilities

• Implement agent logic and execution steps

• Build agent flows including:

• Reasoning

• Tool selection and invocation

• Structured response generation

• Integrate agents with orchestration and MCP layers

• Ensure agents operate in assistive, nonautonomous mode

• Handle retries, failures, and edge cases in agent execution

• Support evaluation, tuning, and refinement of agent behavior

• Work under guidance of Orchestration Lead and Lead AI Engineer