Agent AI Engineer: Production-Grade, Enterprise Automation

Talentify; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 94,000 - 156,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

Paid time off including parental leave

Retirement plan

Job summary

PepsiCo is seeking an AI Engineer specializing in Agentic AI enablement to design and deliver production-grade agent capabilities across cloud and edge environments. You will own end-to-end delivery of agent modules, evaluate performance, and scale solutions across supply-chain and global functions.

Responsibilities include designing high-leverage agent modules, translating business workflows into agent behaviors, and driving optimization in latency, cost, and retrieval quality.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s in CS/AI/ML or equivalent experience required.
• Master’s degree preferred.
• 6-8 year experience in Software life cycle
• Expertise in ML (structured and unstructured data) development and engineering
• Proven experience shipping LLM/agent solutions to production with measurable quality and operational practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and productionization of high-leverage agent modules and reusable patterns.
• Translate ambiguous product statements into concrete agent behaviors and system designs: state models, failure modes, tool contracts, latency budgets, and acceptance criteria.
• Deliver quickly without sacrificing quality: create thin vertical slices, iterate with evidence, and converge on robust behavior under real-world constraints.
• Drive meaningful performance gains via systematic optimization: latency, token efficiency, tool-call success, retrieval quality, and cost per successful task.
• Proactively identify platformizable opportunities: refactor one-off implementations into shared frameworks/SDKs that reduce build time for others.

Skills

Python

Java

Team leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s in CS/AI/ML or equivalent

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

LangChain

LangGraph

CrewAI

FastAPI

Pydantic

Docker

Kubernetes

Ray

Kafka

gRPC

Redis

OpenTelemetry

Grafana

Temporal

MEM0

Job description

PepsiCo is seeking an AI Engineer specializing in Agentic AI enablement to design and deliver production-grade agent capabilities across cloud and edge environments. You will own end-to-end delivery of agent modules, evaluate performance, and scale solutions across supply-chain and global functions.

Responsibilities include designing high-leverage agent modules, translating business workflows into agent behaviors, and driving optimization in latency, cost, and retrieval quality.