Production AI & Agentic Engineer II

Exelixis Inc; Alameda (CA); On-site; USD 152,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k plan

Health coverage

Vision coverage

Life insurance

Disability insurance

FSA program

Annual bonuses

Stock purchase plan

Vacation days

Paid holidays

Sick days

Job summary

Exelixis Inc is seeking an Engineer II - AI and Agentic to design, build, and deploy production-grade agentic applications that automate multi-step IT and business workflows across the company. This role emphasizes secure, spec-driven AI solutions and reusable platform components.

You will integrate LLMs, prompts, tools, APIs, and enterprise data, implement CI/CD, drive observability, and contribute to architecture notes and runbooks while promoting secure-by-design practices and

Qualifications

• Education Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Software Engineering, or a related field and 5 years of related experience; or Master’s degree...
• Experience 2 - 4 years of relevant experience in AI application, data science, automation, or related technical work, including hands-on experience building or contributing to LLM-enabled applications, agentic workflows, API integrations.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver end-to-end agentic applications and multi-agent workflows that automate IT and business processes.
• Convert prototypes into hardened, production-ready services with clear specifications, modular design, robust error handling, and comprehensive test coverage.
• Integrate LLMs, prompts, tools, APIs, and enterprise data sources (e.g., Bedrock, Databricks Mosaic AI, MCP servers) into reliable use cases.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines, automated evaluation harnesses, observability, and artifact versioning for AI/agent workloads.
• Author architecture notes, runbooks, SOPs, and technical documentation to support adoption, operability, and maintainability.
• Lead prompt/spec reviews, code reviews, threat modeling exercises, and release-readiness gates.
• Apply and evangelize secure-by-design and responsible AI principles, including data governance, privacy, and safe prompting aligned to organizational policy.

Skills

Python

JavaScript/TypeScript

LLM integration

REST APIs

Security practices

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS Bedrock

Databricks Mosaic AI

MCP servers

GitHub Copilot

Claude Code / Codex

Jenkins / GitHub Actions

Job description

Exelixis Inc is seeking an Engineer II - AI and Agentic to design, build, and deploy production-grade agentic applications that automate multi-step IT and business workflows across the company. This role emphasizes secure, spec-driven AI solutions and reusable platform components.

You will integrate LLMs, prompts, tools, APIs, and enterprise data, implement CI/CD, drive observability, and contribute to architecture notes and runbooks while promoting secure-by-design practices and