AI Engineer - AI Foundations and Platform Enablement

Benefits:

• Health insurance

AI Engineer - AI Foundations and Platform Enablement –

Location: Dallas, TX and Austin, TX
Hire type: C2H and FTE
Salary: $60/hr / $120K on FTE

Role Summary

Design and build the foundational platform layers needed to deliver secure, scalable, reusable AI use cases. The role will develop proofs of concept and production-ready patterns across MCP, orchestration, security, caching, and telemetry.

Key Responsibilities

• Build POCs for MCP gateways and retail-domain MCP servers that securely expose enterprise tools and data.
• Design an orchestration layer for coordinating models, agents, tools, workflows, approvals, retries, and failures.
• Establish caching patterns that improve latency and cost while protecting data freshness and privacy.
• Implement agentic authentication and authorization, including identity propagation, delegated access, least privilege, and auditability.
• Create telemetry for AI workflows, including traces, metrics, logs, token usage, tool calls, latency, errors, and policy decisions.
• Deliver reusable APIs, reference implementations, documentation, and standards for application teams.
• Partner with architecture, security, product, and engineering teams to move POCs toward production.

Must Have

• 5+ years of software engineering experience building distributed services or platforms.
• Hands-on experience with LLM applications, AI agents, RAG, or tool-calling workflows.
• Strong programming skills in Java, Python, TypeScript, or Go.
• Experience with APIs, service integration, asynchronous processing, and distributed systems.
• Practical knowledge of authentication, authorization, secrets management, and secure service communication.
• Experience with observability, including structured logging, metrics, tracing, and operational dashboards.
• Experience with cloud and containerized deployments, such as Kubernetes.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to turn ambiguous ideas into working POCs.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Model Context Protocol, MCP gateways, MCP servers, or similar agent integration frameworks.
• Experience building orchestration or workflow platforms with durable execution, queues, event streams, or human-in-the-loop controls.