AI Engineering Leader — Agentic Systems & Platforms

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

Job summary

Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP in the United States is seeking a Head of AI Engineering to lead the design, orchestration, evaluation, and deployment of the firm's AI agents. You will establish standards for task decomposition, memory management, and tool use, while owning evaluation baselines and agentic experiences end to end.

This hands-on leadership role involves mentoring engineers, building scalable patterns, and partnering with internal and external experts to advance Baker Tilly's

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, engineering, or related field; advanced degree preferred.
• 15+ years software engineering, including 3+ years building production LLM/agentic systems.
• Staff- or principal-level engineering with demonstrated success shipping production agent systems.
• Strong knowledge of agentic tech stack, orchestration, memory management, and tool calling.
• Hands-on coding in Python and/or TypeScript for production systems.

Responsibilities

• Define and build agentic reference patterns, including task decomposition and orchestration.
• Own the Compass agents and full-stack product experiences end to end.
• Develop evaluation harnesses, baselines, and regression discipline for releases.
• Lead the Agent Factory and mentor engineers in agentic practices.
• Collaborate with Data & AI Platform, Product, Design, and Engineering teams.

Skills

Leadership

LLM/Agentic systems

Python

TypeScript

System design

Evaluation harness

Staff-level engineering

Collaboration

Full-stack engineering

Human-in-the-loop

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

Python

TypeScript

LLM tooling

Vector databases

MCP

Job description

Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP in the United States is seeking a Head of AI Engineering to lead the design, orchestration, evaluation, and deployment of the firm's AI agents. You will establish standards for task decomposition, memory management, and tool use, while owning evaluation baselines and agentic experiences end to end.

This hands-on leadership role involves mentoring engineers, building scalable patterns, and partnering with internal and external experts to advance Baker Tilly's