Engineer - Agentic AI- Virtual

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At Alight, we believe a company’s success starts with its people. At our core, we Champion People, help our colleagues Grow with Purpose and true to our name we encourage colleagues to “Be Alight.”

Our Values:

Champion People – be empathetic and help create a place where everyone belongs.

Grow with purpose – Be inspired by our higher calling of improving lives.

Be Alight – act with integrity, be real and empower others.

It’s why we’re so driven to connect passion with purpose. Alight helps clients gain a benefits advantage while building a healthy and financially secure workforce by unifying the benefits ecosystem across health, wealth, wellbeing, absence management and navigation.

With a comprehensive total rewards package, continuing education and training, and tremendous potential with a growing global organization, Alight is the perfect place to put your passion to work.

Join our team if you Champion People, want to Grow with Purpose through acting with integrity and if you embody the meaning of Be Alight.

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Join our dynamic AI Engineering team as an Agentic AI Engineer, where you’ll help design, build, and secure agentic AI solutions that solve complex, cross-domain problems. You’ll work alongside talented engineers, architects, and product managers to deliver scalable, secure, and innovative AI systems using modern cloud and software engineering practices. This role is ideal for someone with a strong engineering background, a passion for problem solving, and a commitment to continuous learning and improvement.

• Agentic AI Engineering: Contribute to the design and implementation of agentic AI systems, including multi‑agent orchestration, tool‑use, retrieval (RAG), planning, and self‑evaluation loops.
• Building Tools & Standards for AI CoE: Develop reusable tools, frameworks, and technical standards that support the AI Center of Excellence’s mission to embed AI responsibly and efficiently across the organization. Help define best practices and contribute to the creation of governance and operational standards for agentic AI.
• Security & Cyber Responsibilities: Implement security controls for AI systems, including access management, data protection, vulnerability scanning, and incident response protocols. Collaborate with cybersecurity teams to ensure compliance with organizational and regulatory standards.
• Software Development: Build and maintain microservices, APIs, and high‑scale systems using Java, Python, JavaScript, and Type Script.
• Cloud Engineering: Design and deploy cloud‑native solutions using AWS services (EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, IAM) and AWS Bedrock Agents for generative AI and agentic workflows.
• Dev Ops & Runtime Excellence: Support CI/CD automation, Infrastructure as Code, and Git Ops workflows. Implement production observability (APM/logging/metrics/tracing), and contribute to reliability and performance improvements.
• Collaboration: Work closely with Architecture, Product, and Security teams to integrate agentic AI solutions and ensure technology governance and compliance.
• Continuous Learning & Problem Solving: Demonstrate curiosity by exploring new technologies and approaches. Tackle ambiguous and complex problems with persistence and creativity. Share knowledge and contribute to team learning.
• Quality & Compliance: Help define and enforce agentic AI standards and guardrails for safety, compliance, and ethical use, including policy enforcement and observability.

• 5+ years of hands‑on software development experience with Java, Python, JavaScript, and Type Script; strong computer science fundamentals.
• Experience designing and deploying cloud‑native solutions using AWS services.
• Proven experience building microservices/APIs and delivering high‑scale systems.
• Applied Dev Ops/SRE skills: CI/CD, infrastructure as code, Git Ops, and production observability.
• Demonstrated curiosity (continuous learning, exploring new technologies) and…