Alight Solutions · 2 hours ago
Agentic AI Engineer, Lead - Virtual
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$140K/yr - $180K/yr
10+ years expAlight Solutions is a company that champions people and helps clients gain a benefits advantage. They are seeking a Lead Engineer to design and build agentic AI solutions, lead a team of engineers, and collaborate closely with Architecture and Product to deliver secure, scalable systems.
ConsultingEmployee BenefitsFinanceHuman ResourcesSoftware
No H1B
Responsibilities
Owning end‑to‑end technical outcomes: architecture, design, implementation, and production support
Partnering with Product to translate business requirements into technical roadmaps; lead backlog refinement, estimation, and sprint planning
Designing agentic AI systems: multi‑agent orchestration, tool‑use, retrieval (RAG), planning, and self‑evaluation loops
Defining and implementing AI agentic standards and guardrails for safety, compliance, and ethical use, including policy enforcement and observability
Integrating agents with APIs, event streams, and data platforms; measure outcomes against product KPIs
Defining and evolve service architectures with strong non‑functional qualities (performance, scalability, security)
Collaborating with Architecture on standards, cross‑team integrations, and technology governance
Implementing CI/CD automation, Infrastructure as Code, and GitOps workflows; champion release engineering best practices
Implementing production observability (APM/logging/metrics/tracing), define/publish SLOs & SLAs, and use data to improve reliability and performance
Qualification
Required
10+ years' development experience
AWS expertise: designing and deploying cloud-native solutions using AWS services (EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, IAM) and AWS Bedrock Agents for generative AI and agentic workflows
Proven experience building microservices/APIs and delivering high-scale systems
Applied DevOps/SRE skills: CI/CD, infrastructure as code, GitOps, and production observability
Demonstrated ability to collaborate with Architecture and Product and to lead engineers through ambiguity and complex problem-solving
Core values: Demonstrates Curiosity (continuous learning, exploring new technologies) and Persistence (driving solutions through challenges and ambiguity)
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
Secure software design (OAuth/OIDC, secrets mgmt), performance profiling/tuning, and cost-aware architectural decisions
Agile delivery at scale; comfort leading estimation and backlog processes with Product counterparts
Benefits
Health coverage options
Wellbeing and support programs
Retirement
Vacation and sick leave
Maternity, paternity & adoption leave
Continuing education and training
Voluntary benefit options
Company
Alight Solutions
Alight Solutions is a cloud-based human capital technology company that offers HR and financial solutions.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1.64BKey Investors
Caterpillar Ventures
2023-08-22Post Ipo Secondary· $22.5M
2021-07-06Post Ipo Equity· $1.55B
2021-07-06IPO
Leadership Team
Donna Dorsey
Chief Human Resources Officer
Stephen Rush
Chief Commercial Officer
Recent News
Business Wire
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