AI Developer

Title: AI Developer

Job Type: Contract

Contract Length: Ongoing

Pay Range: $75 - $80/hr

Start Date: ASAP

Location: Hybrid - Palo Alto, CA

Our client, a leader in Enterprise AI and Distributed Systems, is looking for a skilled AI Developer to join their team for an ongoing engagement. This project involves evaluating where AI can make a real difference, building the platforms and patterns that make adoption easy, and enabling engineering teams to work smarter and faster through modern AI development patterns. This is a high‑impact role that requires a self‑motivated professional who can hit the ground running and deliver results quickly.

• System Design: Designing agentic systems including tool orchestration, agent reasoning, memory, MCP integrations, and human‑in‑the‑loop workflows.
• Quality Assurance: Building automated evals, simulation tests, and regression frameworks that ensure AI systems are reliable and improving as they scale.
• Governance: Defining and implementing AI governance patterns—guardrails, data lineage, auditability, and responsible AI practices.
• Adoption & Implementation: Driving adoption through pilots, proofs‑of‑concept, and scalable implementations across engineering teams.
• Cross‑Functional
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Collaborating with various business functions, product, security, and platform teams to translate AI use cases into production‑grade, end‑to‑end solutions.

• Experience: 5+ years of professional software engineering, with at least 2 years focused on applied AI in production systems.
• Deep Expertise: Proven experience building and scaling multi‑agent or agent‑driven systems in production. This isn't a learning role—you need to be a subject matter expert.
• Technical Proficiency: Proficient in Python and/or Go; strong systems and backend architecture fundamentals (scalable, reliable systems, failure modes, cost).
• Agent Ecosystems: Hands‑on experience with modern agent ecosystems, including frameworks (e.g., Lang Graph, Google ADK) and observability/evals tooling (e.g., Langfuse, Lang Smith, Braintrust).
• Architecture: Good understanding of cloud‑native environments (GCP and/or AWS) and experience designing and integrating with enterprise APIs (REST, Graph
  
  QL) and backend databases (SQL and No
  
  SQL).
• Collaboration: Strong cross‑functional collaborator and communicator, able to partner with Product, Operations, and domain experts to deliver end‑to‑end systems.
• Employment Type: W2 only (No C2C or 1099 contractors)