Senior AI Engineer Job Dallas area,Texas USA,Software Development

The Senior AI Engineer designs, builds, integrates, evaluates, and continuously improves production-grade AI-enabled capabilities that support Client’s priority AI use cases.
This role is focused on applied AI engineering rather than research alone: taking LLM-powered experiences, agent workflows, RAG patterns, tool/API integrations, evaluation assets, and context-management approaches from concept and prototype into reliable production implementation.
The Senior AI Engineer partners closely with product managers, software engineers, AI architects, data product owners, ontology and knowledge teams, quality engineering, design, journey, clinical, operational, privacy, security, and compliance stakeholders.
The role translates customer jobs-to-be-done, workflow requirements, trusted data and knowledge sources, and enterprise architecture patterns into secure, observable, measurable, and maintainable AI capabilities.
This role is expected to bring strong software engineering fundamentals, hands-on LLM application experience, and practical judgment about how to make AI systems useful, grounded, evaluated, cost-aware, and safe enough for real workflows.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS OF

THE ROLE

Design, build, test, and operate AI-enabled product capabilities across backend services, APIs, data flows, agent workflows, and user-facing experiences where appropriate.
Translate product requirements, customer jobs-to-be-done, clinical or operational workflows, and stakeholder feedback into concrete technical designs and working AI capabilities.
Take ownership of implementation quality from prototype through production, including maintainable code, documentation, testing, observability, issue resolution, and iterative improvement.
Partner with product and engineering teams to sequence work into shippable increments that deliver measurable value while managing technical risk.

LLM Applications, Agents & Workflow Engineering

Build LLM-powered applications, agents, agent components, and multi-step workflows that can use tools, retrieve context, follow defined instructions, and complete targeted tasks reliably.
Define and implement agent behavior, task flow, prompt structures, tool-use patterns, fallback behavior, escalation paths, and workflow control logic.
Develop reusable patterns for agent workflows, tool invocation, state handling, structured outputs, context windows, memory, and human-in-the-loop checkpoints where appropriate.
Diagnose agent failures and improve behavior through prompt refinement, retrieval tuning, workflow redesign, evaluation results, telemetry, and user feedback.

Retrieval, Context & Knowledge Integration

Design and implement retrieval-augmented generation workflows that ground AI outputs in trusted enterprise data, content, knowledge, and source systems.
Partner with data, ontology, knowledge, and engineering teams to define retrieval strategies, source attribution, indexing, chunking, metadata, ranking, traceability, and response-grounding expectations.
Build and tune context pipelines, vector or hybrid retrieval patterns, knowledge integrations, and reusable data-access patterns that support high-quality AI outputs.
Identify reusable retrieval, context, tool, API, and integration patterns that can be shared across multiple AI use cases and product teams.

Evaluation, Observability & Reliability

Build and maintain evaluation assets such as test datasets, golden-answer sets, scoring rubrics, prompt/version comparisons, regression tests, and quality dashboards for AI-enabled capabilities.
Measure and improve agent and LLM application performance across accuracy, groundedness, task completion, latency, cost, safety, response quality, and workflow reliability.
Use logs, traces, telemetry, user feedback, evaluation harnesses, and production signals to identify failure patterns and improve system behavior over time.
Partner with Quality Engineering and Product teams to ensure AI capabilities meet acceptance criteria, responsible AI expectations, and release-readiness standards.
Integrate AI capabilities with approved APIs, enterprise systems, tools, services, data products, knowledge repositories, and platform…