
Agent Forward Engineer
Kyndryl
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Massachusetts • United States
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Salary
💰 $138,480 - $263,160 per year
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