Senior Agentic AI Engineer

Company Summary

Echo Star is reimagining the future of connectivity. Our business reach spans satellite television service, live-streaming and on-demand programming, smart home installation services, mobile plans and products. Today, our brands include Boost Mobile, DISH TV, Gen Mobile, Hughes and Sling TV.

Our Technology teams challenge the status quo and reimagine capabilities across industries. Whether through research and development, technology innovation or solution engineering, our team members play a vital role in connecting consumers with the products and platforms of tomorrow.

Candidates must be willing to participate in at least one in-person interview.

Echo Star is seeking a skilled and innovative Senior Agentic AI Engineer to join the AI team. This role involves designing, building, and bringing to production enterprise-grade AI solutions and autonomous multi-agent systems. The position plays a key role in developing scalable generative AI products that move completely past experimental proof-of-concepts (POCs) to drive measurable business impact.

What Success Looks Like (Objectives):

• Design, develop, and deploy autonomous AI services and multi-agent workflows from initial concept to full enterprise production
• Implement open communication protocol integrations with MCP for agent-to-tool integration and A2A for secure agent-to-agent coordination and task delegation
• Architect hybrid control flows, state machines, and graphs to manage multi-step reasoning, balancing probabilistic LLM behavior with deterministic code paths for critical backend transactions
• Integrate secure tool execution environments, utilizing sandboxed execution contexts and strict egress controls to ensure runtime safety
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into technical agent specifications and scalable microservices
• Apply SRE principles to agent behavior, establishing robust fallback mechanisms, circuit breakers, and detailed audit trails to ensure system observability and reliability

Core Skills and Competencies (What you’ll bring):

• Advanced coding skills in Python, with a deep understanding of backend frameworks and distributed microservices architecture
• Deep understanding of agent interoperability and communication standards, including Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol design
• AI engineering proficiency with cloud-based foundation model platforms, specifically AWS Bedrock or enterprise equivalents
• Technical expertise in containerization, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud infrastructure
• Proven track record of shipping LLM-powered systems into live production environments

Additional Qualifications:

• Experience with multi-agent orchestration frameworks such as Lang Graph, CrewAI, or Auto Gen
• Familiarity with agent deployment platforms and infrastructure hosting like Bedrock Agent Core or equivalent production-grade hosting environments
• Experience with big data platforms and distributed systems for large-scale context processing

Minimum Requirements:

• Minimum Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, or a related technical field
• Minimum Experience: 5 years of experience in software development or data science
• Required Technical
  
  Skills:
  
  Must have at least 5 years of experience with:
• Python
• AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, or GCP Vertex AI
• Microservices architecture

Compensation: $/Year - $/Year

We offer versatile health perks, including flexible spending accounts, HSA, a 401(k) Plan with company match, ESPP, career opportunities, and a flexible time away plan; all benefits can be viewed here:
Echo Star Benefits.

The base pay range shown is a guideline. Individual total compensation will vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, and competencies; compensation is based on the role's location and is subject to change based on work location.

Candidates need to successfully complete a pre-employment screen, which may include a drug test and DMV check. Our company is committed to fostering an inclusive and equitable workplace where every individual has the opportunity to succeed. We are dedicated to providing individuals with criminal or arrest records a fair chance of employment in accordance with local, state, and federal laws.

The posting will be active for a minimum of 3 days. The active posting will continue to extend by 3 days until the position is filled.

We pride ourselves on developing and promoting talent as an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. Echo Star will accommodate the sincerely held religious beliefs of employees if such accommodations are not undue hardships and are otherwise within the bounds of applicable law.

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