Alight · 3 weeks ago
Engineer - Agentic AI- Virtual
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
5+ years expAlight is a company that champions people and aims to improve lives through a unified benefits ecosystem. They are seeking an Agentic AI Engineer to design, build, and secure AI solutions that address complex problems, collaborating with engineers and product managers to deliver scalable systems.
Health Care
No H1B
U.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
Agentic AI Engineering: Contribute to the design and implementation of agentic AI systems, including multi-agent orchestration, tool-use, retrieval (RAG), planning, and self-evaluation loops
Building Tools & Standards for AI CoE: Develop reusable tools, frameworks, and technical standards that support the AI Center of Excellence’s mission to embed AI responsibly and efficiently across the organization. Help define best practices and contribute to the creation of governance and operational standards for agentic AI
Security & Cyber Responsibilities: Implement security controls for AI systems, including access management, data protection, vulnerability scanning, and incident response protocols. Collaborate with cybersecurity teams to ensure compliance with organizational and regulatory standards
Software Development: Build and maintain microservices, APIs, and high-scale systems using Java, Python, JavaScript, and TypeScript
Cloud Engineering: Design and deploy cloud-native solutions using AWS services (EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, IAM) and AWS Bedrock Agents for generative AI and agentic workflows
DevOps & Runtime Excellence: Support CI/CD automation, Infrastructure as Code, and GitOps workflows. Implement production observability (APM/logging/metrics/tracing), and contribute to reliability and performance improvements
Collaboration: Work closely with Architecture, Product, and Security teams to integrate agentic AI solutions and ensure technology governance and compliance
Continuous Learning & Problem Solving: Demonstrate curiosity by exploring new technologies and approaches. Tackle ambiguous and complex problems with persistence and creativity. Share knowledge and contribute to team learning
Quality & Compliance: Help define and enforce agentic AI standards and guardrails for safety, compliance, and ethical use, including policy enforcement and observability
Qualification
Required
5+ years of hands-on software development experience with Java, Python, JavaScript, and TypeScript; strong computer science fundamentals
Experience designing and deploying cloud-native solutions using AWS services
Proven experience building microservices/APIs and delivering high-scale systems
Applied DevOps/SRE skills: CI/CD, infrastructure as code, GitOps, and production observability
Demonstrated curiosity (continuous learning, exploring new technologies) and persistence (driving solutions through challenges and ambiguity)
This role supports services provided to the federal government or federal government contractor and therefore requires US Citizenship. Proof of citizenship status will be required at time of hire
Preferred
Experience with agent frameworks (orchestration, tool-use), LLMs, vector databases, and retrieval pipelines (RAG)
Hands-on with Kubernetes/ECS, Terraform/CloudFormation, Jenkins/GitHub Actions, and APM/logging tools
Experience with secure software design, performance profiling/tuning, and cost-aware architectural decisions
Exposure to agile delivery at scale and comfort working in collaborative, cross-functional teams
Benefits
Health coverage options
Wellbeing and support programs
Retirement
Vacation and sick leave
Maternity, paternity & adoption leave
Continuing education and training
Several voluntary benefit options
Company
Alight
Alight Motion is a powerful video editing and animation app that empowers users to create stunning visuals right from their mobile devices.
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Jocelyn Wyatt
CEO of Alight
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