AI and Agentic Engineer II

## AI and Agentic Engineer IIApplylocations:
Alameda, CAtime type:
Full time posted on:
Posted Yesterday job requisition :
JR7015
** SUMMARY/JOB PURPOSE
** The Engineer II - AI and Agentic is responsible for designing, building, and deploying production-grade agentic applications that automate multi-step IT and business workflows across Exelixis. This role delivers spec-driven, testable, and secure AI solutions, contributes to platform patterns and reusable components, while advancing the engineering standards.

** ESSENTIAL DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES
*** Design and deliver end-to-end agentic applications and multi-agent workflows that automate IT and business processes.
* Convert prototypes into hardened, production-ready services with clear specifications, modular design, robust error handling, and comprehensive test coverage.
* Integrate LLMs, prompts, tools, APIs, and enterprise data sources (e.g., Bedrock, Databricks Mosaic AI, MCP servers) into reliable use cases.
* Implement CI/CD pipelines, automated evaluation harnesses, observability, and artifact versioning for AI/agent workloads.
* Author architecture notes, runbooks, SOPs, and technical documentation to support adoption, operability, and maintainability.
* Lead prompt/spec reviews, code reviews, threat modeling exercises, and release-readiness gates.
* Apply and evangelize secure-by-design and responsible AI principles, including data governance, privacy, and safe prompting aligned to organizational policy
* Contribute reusable components, patterns, and internal libraries to the platform
* Partner with product managers, security, and platform teams to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions
* Performs other duties as assigned
* Complies with all policies and standards
** SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
*** No supervisory responsibilities
** EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE/KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS & ABILITIES*
* ** Education
* ** Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Software Engineering, or a related field and 5 years of related experience; or
* Master’s degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Software Engineering, or a related field and 3 year or related experience; or
* Equivalent combination of education and experience.
** Experience
* ** 2 - 4 years of relevant experience in AI application, data science, automation, or related technical work, including hands-on experience building or contributing to LLM-enabled applications, agentic workflows, API integrations,
** Knowledge,

Skills and Abilities

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* Required:

*** Intermediate to Advanced proficiency in Python and/or JavaScript/Type Script, including modular design, testing, and packaging.
* Intermediate proficiency with agent frameworks and agentic patterns: tool use, planning/execution loops, guardrails, evaluation, and prompt/version management.
* Intermediate proficiency building and consuming REST APIs, and integrating enterprise systems with OAuth/JWT, secrets management, and secure data handling.
* Intermediate proficiency with CI/CD, automated testing (unit/integration), linting, and observability for AI applications.
* Intermediate understanding of security best practices, architecture design principles, and responsible AI/data governance.
* Intermediate communication skills, written and verbal, and demonstrated ability to collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders and mentor junior engineers.
* Intermediate experience with cloud AI platforms — preferably AWS Cloud, AWS Bedrock, and Databricks Mosaic AI — and vector stores or retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) patterns.
* Intermediate knowledge of AI-native engineering using Claude Code, Codex, Git Hub Copilot, or equivalent coding agents.
** Preferred:
*** Experience delivering evaluation frameworks, red-teaming, or LLM observability tooling.
** Travel Requirements
*** No travel is required for this position.#LI-EZ1### ### Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The base pay range for this position is $152,000 - $215,000 annually. The base pay range may take into account the candidate’s…