AI Agent Engineer

Oppstar Technology; Penang; On-site; MYR 60,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Oppstar Technology is seeking an experienced engineer to design, build, and optimize domain-specific AI agents across semiconductor design, manufacturing, and internet products. You will own the end-to-end lifecycle of AI agents, including requirement discovery, agent architecture design, tool integration, and continuous iteration based on user feedback.

Key responsibilities include designing multi-step reasoning flows, integrating external tools, conducting prompt optimization, and

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of agentic systems: planning, reasoning, memory, tool use, reflection.

Responsibilities

• Design multi-step reasoning flows, integrating external tools and APIs.
• Conduct prompt and policy optimization, and implement evaluation strategies to measure task success, safety, and reliability.
• Work with LLM platforms, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and orchestration frameworks.
• Translate complex business and engineering use cases into practical AI agent solutions.
• Collaborate closely with domain experts to encode workflows and best practices into robust, reliable agentic systems.
• Connect agents to external tools, databases, and enterprise APIs (e.g., EDA tools in chip design, CRM, internal microservices).
• Implement multi-agent coordination and complex workflow automation.
• Design robust evaluation strategies: task success metrics, safety guardrails, reliability benchmarks, and user feedback loops.

Job description

Design, build, and optimize domain-specific AI agents across multiple areas such as semiconductor design, semiconductor manufacturing, and internet products. Own the end-to-end lifecycle of AI agents, including requirement discovery, agent architecture design, tool integration, and continuous iteration based on user feedback.

Key responsibilities

Design multi-step reasoning flows, integrating external tools and APIs

Conduct prompt and policy optimization, and implement evaluation strategies to measure task success, safety, and reliability

Work with LLM platforms, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and orchestration frameworks

Translate complex business and engineering use cases into practical AI agent solutions

Collaborate closely with domain experts to encode workflows and best practices into robust, reliable agentic systems

Connect agents to external tools, databases, and enterprise APIs (e.g., EDA tools in chip design, CRM, internal microservices)

Implement multi-agent coordination and complex workflow automation

Design robust evaluation strategies: task success metrics, safety guardrails, reliability benchmarks, and user feedback loops

About you

Strong understanding of agentic systems, including planning, reasoning, memory, tool use, and reflection mechanisms

Experience designing modular, scalable, and maintainable agent architectures for domain-specific applications

Hands-on experience with commercial and open-source LLMs

Proficiency in prompt engineering, chaining, and policy design to guide agent behavior

Expertise in building RAG pipelines: document ingestion, embedding, vector search, context fusion, and answer generation

Ability to optimize retrieval relevance and mitigate hallucination in domain contexts (e.g., semiconductor or internet product data)

Skilled at connecting agents to external tools, databases, and enterprise APIs

Experience with agent orchestration platforms such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, Semantic Kernel, or custom frameworks

Capable of designing robust evaluation strategies and data-driven mindset for continuous agent improvement and A/B testing

Solid coding skills in Python

Oppstar Technology

Oppstar Technology was founded in 2014 in the heart of Penang. In a short span of just 6 years, we have managed to grow and provide satisfaction to our clients with our wholesome design services. Currently, we are able to take full charge of development and One-Stop Shop IC design services from the beginning to the end – all the way to the tape-out processes. Our thorough design services and committed technical support has enable Oppstar to assist clients achieve important milestones during crucial times.

Oppstar Technology has established partnership with top semiconductor companies and key foundries to provide cutting edge technology node design solutions in ASIC and FPGA to our valued customers. Currently, we have successfully delivered a number of complete projects for our key clients, ranging from 55nm to 14nm deep sub-micron process technology nodes physical design and implementation. To ensure value added product development and services, Oppstar Technology prioritizes quality and timeliness in everything we do.

Oppstar Technology was founded in 2014 in the heart of Penang. In a short span of just 6 years, we have managed to grow and provide satisfaction to our clients with our wholesome design services. Currently, we are able to take full charge of development and One-Stop Shop IC design services from the beginning to the end – all the way to the tape-out processes. Our thorough design services and committed technical support has enable Oppstar to assist clients achieve important milestones during crucial times.

Oppstar Technology has established partnership with top semiconductor companies and key foundries to provide cutting edge technology node design solutions in ASIC and FPGA to our valued customers. Currently, we have successfully delivered a number of complete projects for our key clients, ranging from 55nm to 14nm deep sub-micron process technology nodes physical design and implementation. To ensure value added product development and services, Oppstar Technology prioritizes quality and timeliness in everything we do.