Head of AI Engineering & Agentic Systems

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

Job summary

Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP seeks a Head of AI Engineering to define and standardize how AI agents are designed, orchestrated, evaluated, and deployed across the firm. This hands-on leadership role focuses on building reference patterns, memory management, tool use, human-in-the-loop controls, and failure recovery.

The incumbent will own evaluation harnesses, baselines, and release decisions for both internal and third-party agents, mentoring a growing team and collaborating with

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field.
• 15+ years of software engineering experience.
• 3+ years building and deploying LLM-based or agentic systems in production.
• Strong hands-on software engineering skills; production-quality code in Python and/or TypeScript.

Responsibilities

• Define and build agentic reference patterns (task decomposition, orchestration, context engineering).
• Maintain the agent pattern library and establish orchestration standards.
• Own Compass agents and full-stack product experiences end-to-end.
• Build and own the evaluation harness, baselines and regression discipline.
• Lead the Agent Factory as it grows and mentor engineers.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

Agentic engineering

Code reviews

Production-grade software

Education

BSc in CS

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

Python

TypeScript

Job description

Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP seeks a Head of AI Engineering to define and standardize how AI agents are designed, orchestrated, evaluated, and deployed across the firm. This hands-on leadership role focuses on building reference patterns, memory management, tool use, human-in-the-loop controls, and failure recovery.

The incumbent will own evaluation harnesses, baselines, and release decisions for both internal and third-party agents, mentoring a growing team and collaborating with