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Senior Applied AI Engineer

Job in Houston, Harris County, Texas, 77001, USA
Listing for: Vibehackers
Full Time position Listed on 2026-11-05
Job specializations:
  • Software Development
    AI Engineer (Applied/Software), AI Reliability/ Performance Engineer
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 140000 - 170000 USD Yearly USD 140000.00 170000.00 YEAR

Job Description & How to Apply Below

Explicitly focused on production agentic LLM systems (RAG, agent orchestration) and driving AI-first engineering practices across teams.

About the Role

Senior Applied AI Engineer to design, build, and harden production agentic LLM systems for a regulated insurance platform and integrate agent capabilities with a deterministic core. The role also defines and drives AI-first engineering and product principles across distributed squads, with high architectural and organizational influence.

Job Description Role

Senior Applied AI Engineer responsible for building and hardening production agentic systems for a regulated insurance platform and helping define and implement AI-first engineering and product principles. This is an individual-contributor role with significant architectural and organizational influence, working across distributed squads (Vilnius and the US).

Key Responsibilities
  • Design and ship production agentic systems, including multi-agent orchestration, tool use, RAG pipelines, and MCP-based integrations against platform APIs.
  • Build reliability layers around agents: evals, guardrails, observability, cost controls, and regression testing to make agent behavior measurable and defensible.
  • Implement maker-checker patterns so AI accelerates regulated workflows without autonomously handling money, binding, or compliance decisions.
  • Integrate agent capabilities with the deterministic core (canonical data model, Config Hub, Control Tower task orchestration).
  • Co-author and implement AI-first engineering practices: agent harnesses, AI-assisted code review, shared skills and prompt libraries, eval-gated CI, and dev-environment standards; drive adoption across squads.
  • Shape AI-first product principles: human-in-the-loop patterns, agent UX conventions, and scoping/build-vs-buy decisions informed by AI capability estimates.
  • Deliver reference implementations and work with engineering leadership on AI architecture roadmap and production proof points.
Requirements
  • 5+ years of software engineering experience with strong backend or full-stack foundations (APIs, event-driven systems, data modeling).
  • Real production experience with LLM-powered systems: agent orchestration, tool calling, RAG, and structured outputs (not just prototypes).
  • Demonstrated ability to make agentic systems reliable: evals, fallbacks, deterministic checkpoints, cost and latency management.
  • Strong product judgment: apply AI where it adds value and default to deterministic code where appropriate.
  • Track record of changing team practices or workflows (introducing harnesses, workflows, or practices that were adopted by others).
  • Clear written communication and comfort operating in an async-first, distributed team environment.
  • Health, dental, and vision plans
  • 401(k) program with employer match
  • Personal assistance programs (employee support resources)
Compensation
  • Compensation Range: $140,000/year - $170,000/year

LLMs Agent Orchestration Tool Calling RAG MCP Config Hub Control Tower Canonical Data Model Prompt Libraries Eval-gated CI Agent Harnesses Maker-Checker Patterns

Skills

System Design Backend Development Full-stack Development API Design Event-driven Architecture Data Modeling Production ML/LLM Systems Agent Orchestration Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Tool Calling Reliability Engineering Observability Cost Management Regression Testing Product Judgment Architectural Leadership Technical Communication Async Collaboration CI/CD Test Automation Compliance-aware Engineering

Position Requirements

10+ Years work experience
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