Agentic AI / MCP Lead Engineer

Incubit; Town of Philadelphia (NY); On-site; USD 165,000 - 248,000; Full time

Job summary

Incubit is seeking an experienced Agentic AI / MCP Lead Engineer to drive enterprise AI strategy for a bank-facing project in New York. You will architect agent frameworks, develop MCP integrations, and lead cross‑functional teams across AI, data, and product stakeholders.

You will design scalable agent architectures, govern responsible AI practices, and optimize end‑to‑end workflows (memory, planning, retrieval).

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience with 3+ years in GenAI solutions.
• Hands-on experience building AI agents using LangGraph, LangChain, Semantic Kernel, AutoGen, CrewAI, OpenAI Agents SDK.
• Strong understanding of agent planning, reasoning, memory, and orchestration patterns.
• Experience implementing and extending Model Context Protocol (MCP).
• Data embeddings, semantic search, and retrieval optimization experience.
• Enterprise integration with CRM/ERP and knowledge repositories.

Responsibilities

• Define the enterprise architecture for Agentic AI platforms and solutions.
• Design autonomous agent workflows for customer, employee, and operational use cases.
• Establish patterns for multi-agent collaboration, orchestration, planning, reasoning, and execution.
• Drive technical vision for AI-powered business transformation initiatives.
• Design MCP-based integrations between agents, tools, enterprise systems, and knowledge sources.
• Develop reusable MCP servers and connectors for business applications.
• Define standards for tool discovery, context management, permissions, and secure access controls.
• Ensure interoperability between AI models, agents, and enterprise ecosystems.

Skills

LangChain

LangGraph

Semantic Kernel

AutoGen

CrewAI

OpenAI Agents SDK

GenAI solutions

Tools

MCP servers

Tool adapters

Connectors

Job description

Job Title: Agentic AI / MCP Lead Engineer

Location: Philadelphia ,New York, USA

Experience Level:6+ years.

Who Can Apply- US Citizen, Green Card Holder, Valid US Work permit

Company Overview: Incubit LLC is a well-established and innovative technology company based in Ohio, USA. We are seeking a talented Agentic AI / MCP Lead Engineer with expertise in GenAI & MCP to join the project of one of the leading Bank based at New York, USA. Website: www.incubit.com

Key Responsibilities

Agentic AI Strategy & Architecture

• Define the enterprise architecture for Agentic AI platforms and solutions.
• Design autonomous and semi-autonomous agent workflows for customer, employee, and operational use cases.
• Establish architectural patterns for multi-agent collaboration, orchestration, planning, reasoning, and execution.
• Drive technical vision for AI-powered business transformation initiatives.
• Design and implement MCP-based integrations between agents, tools, enterprise systems, and knowledge sources.
• Develop reusable MCP servers and connectors for business applications, APIs, databases, and enterprise platforms.
• Define standards for tool discovery, context management, permissions, and secure access controls.
• Ensure interoperability between AI models, agents, and enterprise ecosystems.

AI Agent Development

• Build intelligent agents capable of:
• Develop agent memory, context handling, and state management capabilities.
• Implement human-in-the-loop controls and agent governance mechanisms.

RAG & Knowledge Systems

• Design and implement enterprise RAG solutions.
• Integrate structured and unstructured data sources into agent workflows.
• Optimize retrieval quality, grounding, relevance ranking, and response accuracy.
• Architect integrations with:
• CRM, ERP, and payment systems
• Knowledge repositories
• Search platforms
• Build scalable backend services supporting agent operations.
• Develop reusable frameworks, SDKs, accelerators, and integration patterns.

Governance, Security & Responsible AI

• Define guardrails for AI agents, tool usage, and autonomous actions.
• Implement authentication, authorization, auditing, and monitoring controls.
• Ensure compliance with enterprise security, privacy, and regulatory requirements.
• Establish observability, traceability, and evaluation frameworks.

Performance, Reliability & Optimization

• Measure agent effectiveness, latency, cost efficiency, and task completion rates.
• Optimize prompts, workflows, retrieval pipelines, and tool interactions.
• Implement testing frameworks, evaluation benchmarks, and quality assurance processes.
• Improve scalability and resiliency of agent platforms.

Technical Leadership

• Lead engineering teams building enterprise AI agent solutions.
• Mentor engineers on AI architecture, MCP, agent frameworks, and GenAI best practices.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Architects, Data Scientists, and Business Stakeholders.
• Drive technical governance and engineering standards.

Required Skills & Experience

Agentic AI & LLM Engineering

• 6+ years of software engineering experience with 3+ years in GenAI solutions.
• Hands-on experience building AI agents using frameworks such as:
• LangGraph
• LangChain
• Semantic Kernel
• AutoGen
• CrewAI
• OpenAI Agents SDK
• Strong understanding of agent planning, reasoning, memory, and orchestration patterns.

MCP & Integration Development

• Experience implementing and extending Model Context Protocol (MCP).
• Building MCP servers, tool adapters, connectors, and integration layers.
• Deep understanding of tool calling, context sharing, and enterprise system integration.

Data & Retrieval Technologies

• Embeddings, semantic search, hybrid search, and retrieval optimization
• Data pipelines and knowledge engineering

Preferred Qualifications

• Exposure to Payments, Banking, Financial Services, or Digital Commerce domains.
• Knowledge of workflow orchestration tools such as Airflow, Temporal, or Prefect.
• Familiarity with GraphRAG, Knowledge Graphs, and advanced retrieval architectures.
• Experience with Azure AI Foundry, OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, or multi-model ecosystems.
• Enterprise Agentic AI architecture
• MCP integration framework and server ecosystem
• Multi-agent orchestration platform
• RAG and knowledge retrieval architecture
• Tool and connector catalog
• Security and governance framework
• Agent evaluation and monitoring framework
• Technical standards and engineering best practices
• Production-ready agentic use cases and accelerators
• AI platform roadmap with stakeholder approval
• Type: Contract
• Duration: 6 Month (Extendable)
• Working Model: WFO
• Hourly Rate: Competitive, based on experience.