Head of AI Engineering & Agentic Systems

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

Job summary

Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP in Pasadena, CA seeks a Head of AI Engineering to shape and lead the firm's agentic engineering strategy. You will define patterns for task decomposition, orchestration, memory management, and tool use, while guiding the evaluation harness and production deployment of AI agents.

In this hands-on leadership role, you will mentor engineers, set engineering standards, review code, and partner with cross-functional teams to translate emerging AI practices into

Qualifications

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Responsibilities

• Define and build agentic reference patterns, including task decomposition, orchestration, context engineering, memory management, tool use, human-in-the-loop checkpoints, and failure containment and recovery.
• Maintain the agent pattern library and establish orchestration standards that product teams can consistently build from.
• Own the Compass agents and full-stack product experiences end to end, on the intelligence layer built by the Data & AI Platform team.
• Build and own the evaluation harness, baselines, and regression discipline used to drive iteration and inform release and acceptance decisions for internally developed and third-party agents.
• Establish evaluation and acceptance criteria in partnership with Product, Architecture, Platform & Production Engineering, Quality Engineering, and other key stakeholders.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

Agentic systems

Software leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

Orchestration frameworks

Tool/function calling

Vector retrieval

Graph retrieval

Memory management

Job description

Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP in Pasadena, CA seeks a Head of AI Engineering to shape and lead the firm's agentic engineering strategy. You will define patterns for task decomposition, orchestration, memory management, and tool use, while guiding the evaluation harness and production deployment of AI agents.

In this hands-on leadership role, you will mentor engineers, set engineering standards, review code, and partner with cross-functional teams to translate emerging AI practices into