AI Native Software Engineer

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**Position: AI Native Software Engineers
Length: Long-term contract**
Location: Remote
Pay rate- $70-75/hr on W2 (Only W2)
Job Description:
Responsibilities

• Design and implement AI agents, including: Retrieval (RAG) / Orchestration workflows /Tool/function invocation /Policy-based routing.
• Build evaluation frameworks for accuracy, latency, and reliability
• Implement observability and monitoring for agent lifecycle
• Integrate with AI providers (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Vertex, open-source models)
• Build abstraction layers to support multi-model and multi-provider architectures
• Optimize model usage for performance, cost, and latency ,Cloud-Native Development
• Develop scalable services using: Microservices architecture / Containers (Docker, Kubernetes) /Serverless and event-driven patterns.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, Helm)
• Ensure production readiness, logging, monitoring, and fault tolerance
• Build and deploy AI-powered applications aligned to business workflows
• Integrate AI systems into existing enterprise platforms and APIs
• Develop backend services and APIs supporting agent workflows
• Define and execute test strategies for AI systems
• Measure system performance (latency, throughput, accuracy, cost)
• Debug and optimize production systems

Must Have

• 8–10+ years of software engineering experience
• Strong experience with cloud-native systems (APIs, microservices, containers, serverless)
• Experience building and deploying AI/LLM-based systems in production (agents, RAG, orchestration)
• Proficiency in Python, Java, or similar backend languages
• Experience with: CI/CD pipelines / Infrastructure as Code / Monitoring and observability tools
• Hands-on experience with AI platforms (OpenAI, Claude, Vertex AI, or similar)

Required

• Experience with agent frameworks (e.g., LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI)
• Experience designing multi-agent or distributed AI systems
• Familiarity with enterprise-scale system integration
• Experience optimizing AI workloads for cost and performance

Note - May require occasional travel to (Miami, Chicago, and/or Atlanta).