Agentic AI + Java/Python - Only W2

Role: Agentic AI + Java/Python Location: Columbus, OH / Plano, TX (Onsite from Day 1) Job Type: W2 Contract Primary Skills: Senior AI Engineer, Agentic Systems, Production Agentic AI, Java, Python Role Summary

• The Senior AI Engineer, Agentic Systems will design, build, deploy, and operate production-grade agentic AI systems that support enterprise-scale use cases.
• The role emphasizes shipped production experience, system reliability, orchestration, monitoring, debugging, and the ability to expose enterprise capabilities as tools or skills for LLM-powered agents.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, with demonstrated experience building and shipping production systems.
• Hands-on production experience with agentic AI or GenAI applications, including deployment, monitoring, debugging, and operating agents at scale.
• Strong Python engineering skills, with the ability to work effectively in production AI and agentic system environments.
• Java experience or willingness to work daily within a Java service layer, especially where enterprise systems require integration with existing backend services.
• Experience with agent frameworks and orchestration technologies, including LangChain and/or LangGraph.
• Familiarity with production infrastructure for AI systems, including Kubernetes-based deployment environments.
• Ability to explain shipped system architecture and failure modes, including what was deployed, how it was monitored, where it failed, and how issues were resolved.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with LangGraph as a production orchestration layer.
• Experience with vLLM or comparable model-serving infrastructure.
• Experience in regulated-industry or financial-services technology environments, especially where enterprise scale and production-path stakes are important.
• Experience working with business stakeholders to deliver end-to-end AI use cases, not only platform or prototype work.