Kyndryl

Agent Forward Engineer

Kyndryl

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: MassachusettsUnited States

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Salary

💰 $138,480 - $263,160 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Design and implement agentic AI systems that automate discovery, assessment, and migration of legacy applications.
  • Develop intelligent workflows for refactoring monolithic systems into microservices or serverless architectures.
  • Integrate AI agents with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) to orchestrate infrastructure provisioning, data migration, and validation.
  • Build reasoning engines that optimize migration paths based on cost, performance, and compliance.
  • Collaborate with architects, DevOps, and business stakeholders to align AI-driven modernization with enterprise goals.
  • Concentrate on building and integrating custom AI agents to solve specific, tactical customer problems.
  • Apply LLMs, graph reasoning, and planning to accelerate decision-making in migration scenarios.
  • Monitor agent performance, retrain models, and continuously improve autonomy and reliability.
  • Evaluate the effectiveness of prototypical agents through an understanding of both legacy and modern application development languages.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, AI, or related field
  • Experience in AI engineering, with a focus on agentic systems or autonomous workflows
  • 10+ years of experience in application development
  • Deep understanding of application migration strategies (rehost, replatform, refactor, retire)
  • Experience having built and leveraged AI for software development
  • Proficiency in cloud-native development and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi)
  • Experience building autonomous agents using frameworks like Lang Chain, Semantic Kernel, or custom planners
  • Experience with LLMs, reinforcement learning, or multi-agent systems
  • Strong programming skills in Python, Java, or other modern languages.
Benefits
  • Medical and dental coverage
  • Disability
  • Retirement benefits
  • Paid leave
  • Paid time off
  • Kyndryl's discretionary annual bonus program based on performance
  • Comprehensive benefits package
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
AI engineeringagentic systemsapplication migration strategiescloud-native developmentinfrastructure-as-codeprogramming in Pythonprogramming in Javabuilding autonomous agentsLLMsreinforcement learning
Soft Skills
collaborationproblem-solvingdecision-makingcommunication
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in computer scienceMaster’s degree in computer sciencedegree in AI