Principal Multi-Agent AI Systems Engineer - AdTech

Directv; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 179,000 - 268,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work schedule

Travel required

Job summary

DIRECTV in New York City seeks a Principal, System Engineer 2 to design and operationalize advanced agentic AI systems across its Advertising Technology ecosystem. This senior IC will move between architecture, production code, platform services, and direct business engagement.

The role owns end-to-end technical delivery for secure multi-agent environments, collaborates with Product, Ad Sales, Operations, Data, and Engineering, and drives reliability, governance, and scalable integration with

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 5–7 years of progressive software, systems, platform, or architecture experience including hands-on ownership of production services.
• Proven experience building and deploying agentic AI or GenAI systems beyond proofs of concept.
• Demonstrated experience leading solutions from discovery through production and end-to-end technical decisions.

Responsibilities

• Design and build production multi-agent systems, including planners, coordinators, specialist agents, reviewers, human approval points, shared state, memory, and recovery paths.
• Build collaborative workspaces where business users and multiple agents can jointly investigate, plan, create, review, and execute work.
• Design and develop backend services, APIs, event-driven workflows, tool registries, and integration services that connect agents to enterprise capabilities.
• Design context strategies combining user intent, role, workflow state, enterprise knowledge, structured data, tool outputs, conversation history, and policy constraints.
• Establish evaluation strategies for task success, groundedness, tool correctness, trajectory quality, safety, latency, reliability, and cost.
• Lead architecture and code reviews, mentor engineers, establish reusable standards, and manage cross-system dependencies and risks.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

Java

Go

C#

LLM apps

Multi-agent orchestration

Distributed systems

Backend services

API design

Kubernetes

Snowflake

Security & auth

CI/CD

Observability

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Snowflake

LangGraph

Semantic Kernel

Bedrock AgentCore

Job description

DIRECTV in New York City seeks a Principal, System Engineer 2 to design and operationalize advanced agentic AI systems across its Advertising Technology ecosystem. This senior IC will move between architecture, production code, platform services, and direct business engagement.

The role owns end-to-end technical delivery for secure multi-agent environments, collaborates with Product, Ad Sales, Operations, Data, and Engineering, and drives reliability, governance, and scalable integration with