Lead AI Engineer

Role: Lead AI Engineer

Skills: AI Agent Logic, Agent Frameworks, RAG Solutions, Python, Azure AI Search (LangGraph, LangChain Agents, or equivalent), REST API

Experience: 12+ years

Location: Chicago, IL (Onsite Job)

Role Summary

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

Must‑Have Technical Skills

• 12 + years software / backend engineering experience
• Strong Python
• Hands‑on 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 multi‑step, 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, non‑autonomous 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

Good to Have

• Exposure to enterprise automation platforms