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Software Engineer – Agentic Systems

Talent Groups
Arlington, VA Contractor
POSTED ON 6/12/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 7/10/2026

Job Description:

As a Senior Software Engineer – Agentic Systems, you will:

  • Design and build scalable, resilient software systems that orchestrate AI agents, tools, and services within enterprise environments.
  • Treat agents as execution primitives, ensuring each action is explicitly attributable, authorized, auditable, and observable.
  • Implement orchestration patterns such as supervisors, routers, planners, and stateful workflows for multi step agent execution.
  • Build frameworks for tool invocation, error handling, retries, and compensating actions in agent driven workflows.
  • Integrate identity, permissions, and policy enforcement directly into agent execution paths.
  • Collaborate with AI Engineers to integrate models and prompts as components within larger systems.
  • Own operational aspects of agentic platforms, including logging, monitoring, tracing, and incident response.
  • Review code, mentor peers, and contribute to shared engineering standards and architectural decisions.


Required Experience & Skills

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Significant professional experience building distributed, production grade software systems.
  • Strong proficiency in backend software development (e.g., Java, Kotlin, Python, or similar).
  • Experience designing APIs, services, and asynchronous workflows.
  • Deep understanding of authentication, authorization, and secure service to service communication.
  • Experience operating systems with high reliability, availability, and regulatory requirements.
  • Ability to work effectively in ambiguous problem spaces and evolve systems iteratively.

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