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AI Engineering Leader (Hands-On GenAI & Agentic Systems)

Mamsys World
Austin, TX Contractor
POSTED ON 4/22/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/21/2026

AI Engineering Leader (Hands-On GenAI & Agentic Systems)

Multiple Locations: Austin, TX | Charlotte, NC | New York, NY | Tempe, AZ | San Diego, CA

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About the Role

We’re looking for a highly hands-on AI Engineering Leader to design, build, and scale next-generation AI systems. This is not a pure management role — you will actively contribute to architecture, development, and deployment of production-grade Generative AI solutions.

If you thrive at the intersection of GenAI, agentic systems, and cloud platforms, this role is for you.


What You’ll Do

AI System Design & Development

  • Build production-grade GenAI systems including:
  • Multi-agent architectures
  • RAG & GraphRAG pipelines
  • Autonomous agent workflows
  • Integrate AI agents with enterprise tools, APIs, and systems
  • Implement MCP-based agent communication frameworks
  • Apply advanced prompt engineering for performance & reliability

Agentic AI & Evaluation

  • Design and deploy multi-agent orchestration systems
  • Develop:
  • Agent evaluation frameworks
  • RAG evaluation pipelines
  • Optimize AI systems by measuring:
  • Output quality
  • Hallucination rates
  • Relevance & groundedness

Engineering & Platform Development

  • Build scalable services using:
  • Python (primary)
  • .NET / C# (preferred)
  • Develop:
  • REST APIs
  • Microservices architectures
  • Contribute to web-based applications (Angular / TypeScript)
  • Integrate AI into enterprise workflows

Cloud & Infrastructure (AWS)

  • Design and deploy AI systems using:
  • AWS Lambda, S3, EC2, EKS, Glue, SNS, SQS
  • Work with Kafka-based streaming architectures
  • Build secure, scalable, and cost-efficient AI pipelines

DevOps & CI/CD

  • Implement CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
  • Enable automated testing, deployment, and monitoring of AI systems
  • Ensure continuous iteration and performance improvements

AI Development Tooling

  • Work with cutting-edge tools:
  • Claude API / Claude Code
  • Cursor AI
  • Optimize developer productivity using AI-assisted workflows


Required Qualifications

  • 10 years of software engineering experience
  • 5 years in AI/ML / Generative AI (production environments)
  • Hands-on experience building:
  • AI Agents (2 implementations)
  • GraphRAG systems (2 implementations)
  • MCP integrations (at least 1)
  • Strong expertise in:
  • Multi-agent orchestration
  • RAG pipelines & evaluation frameworks
  • Strong programming skills in Python
  • Proven experience with AWS cloud platform
  • Experience in API development & system integration


Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with .NET / C#
  • Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
  • Angular / TypeScript development
  • Kafka or real-time streaming systems
  • Familiarity with frameworks like LangChain, LangGraph

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