Senior GECX AI Forward Deployed Engineer - Lead Software Engineer

# Senior GECX AI Forward Deployed Engineer - Lead Software Engineer Atlanta Apply  for this job
* Permanent* Experienced Professionals
* Software Engineering
* -en _USChoosing Capgemini means choosing a company where you will be empowered to shape your career in the way you’d like, where you’ll be supported and inspired by a collaborative community of colleagues around the world, and where you’ll be able to reimagine what’s possible. Join us and help the world’s leading organizations unlock the value of technology and build a more sustainable, more inclusive world.##

Location This is a hybrid role based across multiple locations - Atlanta, Nashville, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, New Jersey## About the job you're considering

The Capgemini team offers extensive career opportunities and provides mentoring and coaching for teammates. This role is an experienced professional with a strong background in software development.##

Your role
* Design and build production-grade conversational and Agentic AI applications.
* Develop hands-on using Python, APIs, JSON and modern software engineering practices.
* Build and troubleshoot CES / GECX integrations and modernization scenarios.
* Build agents using Gemini, Vertex AI, Google ADK and applicable agent frameworks.
* Implement tool/function calling, workflows, state/context management and agent orchestration.
* Develop RAG and enterprise-grounding solutions over structured and unstructured data.
* Integrate agents with enterprise APIs, databases, CRM, contact-center platforms and backend systems.
* Develop full-stack components required to complete the customer solution.
* Implement secure authentication, IAM, secrets management and service-to-service communication.
* Deploy applications using appropriate GCP services
* Implement agent evaluation, tracing, observability, guardrails and regression testing.
* Diagnose production issues across agent logic, prompts, retrieval, tools, APIs, infrastructure and distributed services.
* Rapidly prototype technical solutions and evolve validated prototypes toward production readiness.
* Work directly with customer engineering teams to reproduce issues, debug implementations and resolve technical blockers.## Your skills and experience
* Senior candidate with 15 plus years of relevant experience as Lead/Architect
* Strong hands-on Python/software engineering
* Good experience in Gemini / Generative AI application development, Vertex AI, Agentic AI architectures
* Solid exposure in REST APIs / JSON
* Experience   in RAG / embeddings / enterprise grounding
* Good in GCP application deployment, IAM / security fundamentals, Enterprise integration
* Experience working  with Google ADK, CES / GECX experience, Contact-center / CCaaS integration, Multi-agent architectures, MCP, A2A, Agent evaluation and observability
* Experience in Streaming / real-time APIs, Production conversational AI, Telephony integrations#LI-RM1 - Hybrid The base compensation range for this role in the posted location is: $109,180 - $197,175.Capgemini provides compensation range information in accordance with applicable national, state, provincial, and local pay transparency laws. The base compensation range listed for this position reflects the minimum and maximum target compensation Capgemini, in good faith, believes it may pay for the role at the time of this posting.

This range may be subject to change as permitted by law.

The actual compensation offered to any candidate may fall outside of the posted range and will be determined based on multiple factors legally permitted in the applicable jurisdiction.

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Geographic location, Education and qualifications, Certifications and licenses, Relevant experience and skills,…