Lead AI Engineer: Production‑Ready Agents

Reuters; Eagan (MN); Hybrid; USD 127,000 - 237,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid Work Model

Tuition Reimbursement

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Reuters is seeking a Lead AI Engineer to set technical direction across core agent infrastructure and production tooling. You will architect AI agent systems, scale them with modern LLMs, and guide the team with hands-on leadership.

You will design observability, evaluation pipelines, and progressive deployment patterns while mentoring a senior engineering group and partnering with product leadership to translate strategy into concrete architectures.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience architecting and shipping production software systems, including hands-on experience building AI/LLM-powered products or agentic systems.
• Direct experience building with modern LLM APIs, agent frameworks/SDKs, or agent-to-tool integration protocols.
• A track record of setting technical direction across multiple concurrent initiatives, not just delivering one project end-to-end.

Responsibilities

• Set technical architecture and direction across the team's highest-priority initiatives, spanning core agent infrastructure, new internal tooling, and production reliability.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership wherever it matters most, flexing across the team's highest-priority initiatives rather than being locked into a single fixed workstream.
• Architect and build production AI agent systems on top of modern LLM APIs, agent SDKs, and orchestration/runtime infrastructure, designed to scale and integrate cleanly with existing platform services.
• Design agent observability and evaluation practices (tracing, automated evals, and quality/drift detection) so regressions in agent behavior get caught before they reach customers.
• Advance how the team deploys and operates AI agents in production, deepening practices like progressive/feature-flagged rollout and earlier-stage quality signals so releases get both faster and safer over time.
• Drive cross-cutting design reviews and technical decisions (RFCs/ADRs) to keep new systems coherent as multiple initiatives move in parallel.
• Mentor and raise the technical bar for a senior engineering team, including how they use AI-native, agentic development practices to multiply their own output.
• Partner with product and engineering leadership to translate strategic priorities into concrete system architecture and sequencing decisions.

Skills

Architecting production software

AI/LLM-powered systems

Backend engineering fundamentals

Distributed systems design

Production reliability & observability

Mentoring senior engineers

Tools

LLM APIs

Agent frameworks/SDKs

Job description

Reuters is seeking a Lead AI Engineer to set technical direction across core agent infrastructure and production tooling. You will architect AI agent systems, scale them with modern LLMs, and guide the team with hands-on leadership.

You will design observability, evaluation pipelines, and progressive deployment patterns while mentoring a senior engineering group and partnering with product leadership to translate strategy into concrete architectures.