Alight Solutions

Lead Agentic AI Engineer – Virtual

Alight Solutions

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Illinois • United States

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Salary

💰 $140,000 - $180,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AWSCloudEC2JenkinsKubernetesMicroservicesTerraform

About the role

  • 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

Requirements

  • 10+ years’ development experience
  • AWS expertise: designing and deploying cloud‑native solutions using AWS services (EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, IAM)
  • 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
  • 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
  • Options include a variety of health coverage options
  • wellbeing and support programs
  • retirement
  • vacation and sick leave
  • maternity, paternity & adoption leave
  • continuing education and training as well as several voluntary benefit options
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
architecturedesignimplementationproduction supportmulti-agent orchestrationtool-useretrieval (RAG)CI/CDinfrastructure as codesecure software design
Soft Skills
collaborationleadershipproblem-solvingcommunication