AI Engineering Leader: Agentic Systems

Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 250,000 - 400,000; Full time

Job summary

Baker Tilly is seeking a Head of AI Engineering to lead the design, orchestration, evaluation, and deployment of the firm’s AI agents. This role sets standards, mentors teams, and partners with internal and external experts to advance agentic engineering capabilities across the firm.

As a hands-on leader, you will review code, drive architecture decisions, and help scale the Agent Factory while delivering scalable, firm-owned AI solutions and experiences.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of software engineering experience.
• 3+ years building and deploying LLM-based or agentic systems in production.
• Staff- or principal-level engineering experience with production agent systems.
• Strong knowledge of orchestration frameworks, tool calling, and memory management.

Responsibilities

• Define agentic reference patterns including task decomposition and orchestration.
• Own Compass agents and full-stack product experiences end to end.
• Build and own evaluation harnesses, baselines, and regression discipline.
• Lead the Agent Factory growth and set engineering standards.
• Conduct hands-on design and code reviews and mentor engineers.
• Hire and develop full-stack AI engineers for agents and apps.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

LLM-based systems

agentic engineering practices

observability and tracing

full-stack product engineering

human-in-the-loop workflows

software engineering

team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

Orchestration frameworks

Tool/function calling

Memory management

Vector search

Graph approaches

Job description

Baker Tilly is seeking a Head of AI Engineering to lead the design, orchestration, evaluation, and deployment of the firm’s AI agents. This role sets standards, mentors teams, and partners with internal and external experts to advance agentic engineering capabilities across the firm.

As a hands-on leader, you will review code, drive architecture decisions, and help scale the Agent Factory while delivering scalable, firm-owned AI solutions and experiences.