IT Software Engineer (Agentic Engineer)

Erie Insurance; Erie (Erie County); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Erie Insurance is seeking an Agentic Engineer to join ERIE's AI Center of Excellence in Erie, PA. The role focuses on hands-on development of agentic software that helps delivery teams use AI-powered teammates safely and effectively.

This position collaborates with senior engineers, architects, platform teams, information security, governance partners, and delivery teams to implement agent workflows, skills, prompts, APIs, automation, test assets, documentation, runbooks, and evidence artifacts.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in IT, MIS, or related field required; advanced degree preferred.
• Experience developing and maintaining software in an enterprise environment.
• Experience with APIs, CI/CD, cloud services, scripting, and automation.
• Ability to work from designs, incorporate feedback, and deliver maintainable code.
• Strong collaboration across architecture, security, governance, and delivery teams.
• Experience with AI-assisted engineering, prompt engineering, agentic workflows, and responsible AI practices.

Responsibilities

• Generates, reviews, and debugs code/configurations for the product.
• Creates designs, unit tests, and code reviewed by senior engineers.
• Executes tasks through the software development life cycle.
• Develops tools and applications with clean, efficient code.
• Automates tasks with appropriate tools and scripting.
• Performs unit and integration testing.
• Communicates effectively across teams and vendors.
• May mentor junior engineers.

Skills

Full-stack development

Back-end development

Cloud services

Automation

DevOps

APIs & CI/CD

AI/GenAI experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT, MIS, or related field

Associate's degree in technical field

High school diploma + 7 years related experience

Job description

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*This range represents a national range and the actual salary will depend on several factors including the scope and complexity of the role and the skills, education, training, credentials, location (State) based on ERIE's geographical differences, and experience of an applicant, as well as level of role for which the successful candidate is hired. Position may be eligible for an annual bonus payment.

At Erie Insurance, you’re not just part of a Fortune 500 company; you’re also a valued member of a diverse and inclusive team that includes more than 6,000 employees and over 13,000 independent agencies. Our Employees work in the Home Office complex located in Erie, PA, and in our Field Offices that span 12 states and the District of Columbia.
Benefits That Go Beyond The Basics

We strive to be Above all in Service® to our customers—and to our employees. That’s why Erie Insurance offers you an exceptional benefits package, including:

• Premier health, prescription, dental, and vision benefits for you and your dependents.Coverage begins your first day of work.
• Low contributions to medical and prescription premiums.We currently pay up to 97% of employees’ monthly premium costs.
• Pension.We are one of only 13 Fortune 500 companies to offer a traditional pension plan. Full-time employees are vested after five years of service.
• 401(k) with up to 4% contribution match.The 401(k) is offered in addition to the pension.
• Paid time off.Paid vacation, personal days, sick days, bereavement days and parental leave.
• Career development.Including a tuition reimbursement program for higher education and industry designations.
  

Additional benefits that include company-paid basic life insurance; short-and long-term disability insurance; orthodontic coverage for children and adults; adoption assistance; fertility and infertility coverage; well-being programs; paid volunteer hours for service to your community; and dollar-for-dollar matching of your charitable gifts each year.

Position Summary

Designs, develops, and maintains computer software.

Provides technical leadership on small, moderately complex, low risk enhancement projects or support teams, with little supervision.

Delivers moderately complex code/configuration changes as part of a larger implementation under a moderate level of supervision in a primarily full-stack development environment including front-end, policy, integration, and cloud.

What You'll Do:
This opportunity is for an Agentic Engineer in ERIE's AI Center of Excellence. The focus of this position is hands-on development of ERIE's Agentic Lifecycle capability, including the design, build, testing, integration, documentation, and support of agentic software solutions that help delivery teams use AI-powered teammates safely and effectively. This role will work with senior engineers, architects, platform teams, Information Security, governance partners, and delivery teams to implement agent workflows, skills, prompts, APIs, automation, test assets, documentation, runbooks, and evidence artifacts. The Agentic Engineer will help turn emerging agentic architecture patterns into practical, reusable delivery capabilities that improve speed, quality, consistency, and traceability across the software delivery lifecycle.

Preferred Experience & Skills

• Software engineering experience in one or more areas such as full-stack, back-end, integration, cloud, automation, DevOps, platform engineering, scripting, or data-oriented engineering
• Experience developing, testing, debugging, documenting, and maintaining software or configuration in an enterprise technology environment
• Experience with APIs, Git-based workflows, CI/CD, automated testing, cloud services, scripting, workflow automation, integration patterns, or reusable engineering assets
• Ability to work from technical designs and patterns, incorporate feedback, and produce clean, maintainable, well-documented deliverables
• Strong collaboration skills and ability to work across architecture, security, governance, platform, and application delivery teams
• Experience in AI-assisted engineering, GenAI, LLMs, prompt engineering, tool/function calling, agentic workflows, reusable automation, and responsible use of AI in software delivery

What Makes You Stand Out

• Exposure to agentic workflows, prompt/skill design, MCP or API-based tool integration, AI-assisted software delivery, or workflow orchestration
• Experience building reusable automation, internal tools, developer productivity solutions, test harnesses, or platform capabilities
• Curiosity and comfort working in an emerging technology space where standards, patterns, and operating practices are still being shaped
• Interest in secure engineering, auditability, evidence generation, traceability, human-in-the-loop review, and responsible AI delivery practices

Duties and Responsibilities

• Generates, reviews and debugs code/configurations that contribute to a larger product.
• Creates designs, unit tests, and code/configuration of that is reviewed and approved by a more senior engineer.
• Executes tasks in the software development life cycle
• Develops tools and applications by producing clean, efficient code
• Automates tasks through appropriate tools and scripting
• Performs validation and verification testing (unit and integration testing)
• Communicates and collaborates openly and effectively across teams and vendors within their area of focus (practice area).
• May perform as a technical lead on low complexity/isolated applications enhancements or a small, legacy production support team.
• May coach and mentor programmers, apprentices, and interns.

The first two duties listed are the functions identified as essential to the job. Essential functions are those job duties that must be performed in order for the job to be accomplished.

This position description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the incumbent. Employees are required to follow any other job-related instruction and to perform any other duties as requested by their supervisor, or as become clear.

Capabilities

• Self-Development
• Decision Quality
• Values Diversity
• Nimble Learning
• Customer Focus
• Ensures Accountability
• Coding And Converting
• Information Management Skills
• Job-Specific Knowledge
• Proofing Text And Numbers
• Using Tables And Graphs

Qualifications

Minimum Educational and Experience Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in IT, MIS, or related field and three years' related experience; or
• Associate's degree in technical field, plus five years' related experience; or
• High school diploma plus seven years' related experience

Additional Experience

• Possesses moderate acumen with continued growth in experience, breadth, and depth in one or more of the following practice areas:front-end, full-stack, back-end, mainframe, integration, document management, or data science, required.
  

Designations and/or Licenses

• Willingness to pursue a certification in one or more preferred technologies at ERIE required

Physical Requirements

• Lifting/Moving 0-20 lbs; Occasional (<20%)
• Lifting/Moving 20-50 lbs; Occasional (<20%)
• Ability to move over 50 lbs using lifting aide equipment; Rarely
• Driving; Occasional (<20%)
• Pushing/Pulling/moving objects, equipment with wheels; Rarely
• Manual Keying/Data Entry/inputting information/computer use; Frequent (50-80%)