Lead AI Engineer - C#/.NET & LLMs, Hybrid

RecruitNest Consulting; Pasig; Hybrid; PHP 1,200,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

RecruitNest Consulting in Ortigas, Pasig is seeking an AI Engineering Manager - IC to build production AI agents and enhance platform capabilities. This role blends hands-on agent engineering with backend and platform development across the full lifecycle, from discovery to deployment and continuous improvement.

You will collaborate with customers, business analysts, QA and software engineers to translate business needs into reliable agent behavior and scalable features, taking ownership from

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/IT/Engineering or related field.
• 7+ years in Software Development/AI Engineering or related roles.
• Proven AI-driven project experience, preferably with AI agents/LLMs.
• Strong API, backend, data integration, testing and cloud-hosted apps experience.
• Hands-on production AI agents/LLMs experience is highly preferred.
• Experience leading or mentoring engineers or driving software/AI initiatives is a plus.
• Familiarity with Microsoft/Azure stack and modern development tools.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop AI agents handling multiple inputs, contexts, and multi-turn interactions.
• Develop agent solutions using instructions, context management, structured outputs, retrieval, grounding, and tool execution.
• Integrate AI agents with APIs, enterprise data, identity systems, and external apps.
• Design and maintain evaluation frameworks to measure agent quality, accuracy, and performance.
• Incorporate AI security, privacy, access control, and responsible AI practices.
• Analyze and improve agent behavior from logs, traces, and metrics.
• Develop and maintain APIs, backend services, data integrations, and distributed workflows.
• Contribute to platform enhancements: authentication, authorization, persistence, observability.
• Establish automated testing practices across unit/integration/contract/e2e.
• Contribute to CI/CD, code reviews, production support, and cost optimization.
• Translate business requirements into AI use cases and acceptance criteria.
• Collaborate with engineers to share knowledge and best practices.
• Take ownership of solutions from discovery to production and continuous improvement.

Skills

Strong problem-solving

Communication skills

Stakeholder management

Collaboration skills

Mentoring engineers

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/IT/Engineering

Tools

Microsoft Agent Framework

Microsoft Foundry

Python

C#/.NET

ASP.NET Core

TypeScript

React

Next.js

PostgreSQL

Azure Cosmos DB

Docker

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Entra ID

GitHub Actions

Application Insights

OpenTelemetry

Job description

RecruitNest Consulting in Ortigas, Pasig is seeking an AI Engineering Manager - IC to build production AI agents and enhance platform capabilities. This role blends hands-on agent engineering with backend and platform development across the full lifecycle, from discovery to deployment and continuous improvement.

You will collaborate with customers, business analysts, QA and software engineers to translate business needs into reliable agent behavior and scalable features, taking ownership from