Agentic Engineer, Entertainment

About Us

One team. Global challenges. Infinite opportunities. At Viasat, we’re on a mission to deliver connections with the capacity to change the world. For more than 35 years, Viasat has helped shape how consumers, businesses, governments and militaries around the globe communicate. We’re looking for people who think big, act fearlessly, and create an inclusive environment that drives positive impact to join our team.

One team. Global challenges. Infinite opportunities. At Viasat, we’re on a mission to deliver connections with the capacity to change the world. For more than 35 years, Viasat has helped shape how consumers, businesses, governments and militaries around the globe communicate. We’re looking for people who think big, act fearlessly, and create an inclusive environment that drives positive impact to join our team.

This role will take a workstream and drive it to production: agent services, the shared agentic platform, building out additional tools for agent swarms to use and integrating with existing applications. Today the work centers on agent runtimes, a company‑wide code‑review agent, MCP servers, agent swarms, and a spec‑driven delivery frameworks. As the team moves into new agentic tools and areas, this role helps lead the adoption.

You’ll be a part of the Entertainment Platform Architecture team that builds and runs the agentic AI systems for Viasat’s Entertainment org supporting Commercial Aviation Live TV, In‑flight Entertainment, and Content Delivery Platform capabilities. We are seeking an Agentic Engineer to build alongside the Architect for the org and own work streams end to end.

This is a hands‑on engineering role. You build, review, and operate fully agentic systems. You also mentor engineers and help set how the org adopts agentic AI setting the foundation and creating prototypes or platforms that can be expanded by other team. The role reports to the Lead Platform Architect in the Entertainment organization.

• Build and ship agentic AI applications end to end with the architect and product team, from the data layer through the agent runtime to the production interface.
• Extend and operate production agent services, including the company‑wide code-review agent. Own the evaluation harnesses, observability, and guardrails that measure quality, cost, and safety.
• Build MCP servers and integrations that give agents one governed interface to internal systems and data.
• Build and maintain reusable agent templates, libraries, and components, so a new agent starts from a governed, deploy-anywhere baseline that other teams adopt.
• Build and operate agent swarms and automations that take over recurring operational work for both process and development flows.
• Advance the spec‑driven delivery framework (spec, implement, test to green CI, pull request) that runs many parallel feature cycles a day.
• Deploy on a build-to-image architecture across GCP and AWS. Use Terraform and infrastructure‑as‑code, and route services through the governed gateways.
• Build to the org's AI architecture standards and responsible-AI guardrails.

• Prototype, evaluate, and product ionize new agentic frameworks and developer‑productivity tools as the team moves into new areas.
• Run structured experiments and proofs-of-concept with documented evaluation criteria and clear OKRs.

• Run daily code review and mentor engineers on agentic development, prompt engineering, and internal AI tooling.
• Contribute to the monthly AI forum: live build‑an‑agent tutorials, architecture and ADR reviews, and readouts.
• Write and maintain internal documentation, patterns, and getting‑started guides for the team's agentic tooling.

• This position is site-based. Site‑based employees work 3+ days (60%+) per week from a Viasat office or work location within a standard five‑day work week. Viasat embraces a flexible work environment and onsite/hybrid work is determined by individual roles and teams. Relocation assistance is available pending eligibility.

What you’ll need

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related…