Senior AI Engineer, Jersey City

Senior AI Engineer

Location: Jersey City, NJ / NYC Duration: Full Time OR Contract Job Description: We are seeking a Senior AI Engineer with strong AI system design and agentic reasoning expertise to build and scale GenAI-powered agentic solutions for complex production environments. The role focuses on designing agents that can diagnose, reason, plan, and safely act to reduce operational risk, cost, and incident resolution time in large-scale systems. This position requires deep architectural thinking and agent planning capability, beyond hands-on familiarity with GenAI frameworks.Key Responsibilities: Design and implement end-to-end agentic AI systems for production environments, including planning, orchestration, execution, and feedback loops Build tool-calling agents that combine retrieval, structured reasoning, and secure action execution (function calling, change orchestration, policy enforcement)Define and implement agent planning architectures, including plan generation, structuring, validation, and re-planning Productionize LLMs by building evaluation frameworks, RAG pipelines, prompt synthesis, response validation, and self-correction loops Integrate agents with observability, incident management, deployment, and runbook systems for automated diagnostics and remediationDesign safety, reliability, and governance mechanisms such as guardrails, validator models, adversarial prompt handling, circuit breakers, and rollback strategies Optimize cost, latency, and performance through context management, caching, model routing, batching, and parallel execution Collaborate with production and application teams to translate operational challenges into measurable, auditable AI outcomesDrive architectural design reviews and mentor engineers on agent design, evaluation, and safe deployment patterns Essential Skills&Experience: 5+ years of software development experience (Python, Java, Go, or C/C++), with strong production systems exposure 3+ years designing and deploying production ML/AI systems, including deployment, monitoring, and evaluation Strong hands-on experience with LLM-based systems, including:Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Tool-using / function-calling agents Prompt engineering and adaptation Deep understanding of agentic AI concepts, especially: Agent planning vs execution Multi-step reasoning and decision flows Handling ambiguity, partial state, and failure modes Solid foundation in applied statistics, ML fundamentals, algorithms, and data structuresStrong analytical thinking, ownership mindset, and ability to communicate complex designs clearly Preferred Experience: Experience with agentic frameworks and orchestrators (e.g., Lang Chain, ADK, similar) Cloud infrastructure experience (AWS preferred): ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, Redshift, Step Functions, SageMakerInfrastructure-as-code using Terraform or CloudFormation Mandatory Skills: Java-J2EE.