Directly tied to agentic AI and LLM tooling (LangChain/MCP) — builds and integrates AI agents and orchestration, so it aligns closely with vibe coding and AI assistant integration.
About the Role
Build and scale a reusable agentic AI platform that exposes Amtech's capabilities as headless, MCP-described tools and orchestrates LLM-driven workflows across products. Set technical direction, integrate multiple LLM providers, ensure governed access to customer data, and partner with product-embedded engineers to productionize agents.
Job Description
Role
Senior AI Engineer responsible for designing, building, and scaling Amtech's Agentic Platform — a headless, MCP-native intelligence layer that enables reusable agent patterns across multiple product lines. This is a senior, largely self-directed engineering role that sets technical direction, evaluates build-vs-buy decisions, and serves as a technical reference for Forward Deployed Engineers.
Key Responsibilities
- Design headless, MCP-described business logic callable by UIs, AI agents, and automated jobs.
- Build and maintain an LLM orchestration layer to convert model outputs into safe, governed, tool-using actions.
- Implement and extend agent workflows using frameworks such as LangChain/LangGraph and the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
- Build and tune RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) pipelines and integrate vector databases for grounding.
- Integrate multiple LLM providers (Claude, OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, Anthropic) via a provider abstraction to avoid vendor lock-in.
- Develop a Data Agent for governed, read-only access to on-prem/customer data (EnCore and other sources) with approval gates and queryable audit trails.
- Support reuse of agent patterns across existing company agents and product pods; partner with Forward Deployed Engineers to validate and evolve the platform.
- Deploy agents and inference endpoints on AWS (Lambda, ECS/EKS, SageMaker), integrate with APIs and microservices, and implement evals, cost controls, and observability.
- Collaborate with Data Science, ML Engineering, and MLOps functions on deployment, monitoring, retraining, and classical ML workloads.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, or related field.
- 6+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years building production systems with large language models.
- Demonstrated experience setting technical direction and reviewing engineering work.
- Practical experience with prompt engineering, tool/function calling, and agent frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LangGraph).
- Experience integrating at least one major LLM provider API (OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure OpenAI, or AWS Bedrock).
- Hands-on AWS experience (Lambda, ECS/EKS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch) deploying and operating production workloads.
- Experience with model inferencing (real-time and batch), optimizing latency, throughput, and cost.
- Experience building or consuming RAG pipelines and working with vector databases.
- Working knowledge of ML engineering and MLOps practices (feature stores, model registries, CI/CD for models).
- Familiarity with Docker, Git, and CI/CD practices.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) or similar agent-tool integration standards.
- Experience building governed, read-only data access layers (audit logging, guardrails, least-privilege access).
- Exposure to Kubernetes and cloud AI/inferencing platforms (AWS Bedrock, SageMaker); AWS certifications are a plus.
- Experience with ERP, MES, or industrial/manufacturing data environments.
- Prior experience embedding with product teams or customer-facing engineering efforts.
- Familiarity with performance monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog).
Why Join
Work within Vista's ecosystem to shape AI-driven capabilities across enterprise manufacturing software, with opportunities for continuous learning, leadership development, and cross-portfolio collaboration.
Skills
System Design Platform Architecture Orchestration Prompt Engineering Agent Frameworks MLOps ML Engineering Deployment & Monitoring Cost Optimization Data Governance API Integration Technical Leadership Observability Production Engineering Collaboration
Experience Level
Senior
Employment Type
Full Time, Permanent
- Continuous learning
- Cross-portfolio opportunities through Vista
- Work on cutting-edge AI-driven technologies