Python/AI Engineer

Matlen Silver; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 83,000 - 94,000; Full time

Job summary

Matlen Silver in New York is seeking a Python/AI Engineer for an 18-month W2 contract. The role blends core agent runtime development, platform services, and scalable AI tooling to enable enterprise adoption.

You will design APIs, SDKs, and orchestration features, implement guardrails and observability, and lead testing and deployment across the SDLC within a hybrid NYC setting requiring 2–3 onsite days per week.

Qualifications

• 7 years of software engineering experience; internships do not count.
• Experience with Python-based services using FastAPI and async patterns.
• API design and integration with external systems.
• Proficiency with MongoDB and Redis in production environments.
• Experience building reusable platform capabilities and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and enhance core Agent Runtime capabilities and reusable platform services.
• Implement agent platform features, including tooling integration and orchestration.
• Develop APIs, SDKs, and platform components for scalable AI adoption.
• Build platform controls, guardrails, security and governance mechanisms.
• Create automated test suites and observability tools for reliability and performance.
• Troubleshoot complex runtime, performance, and integration issues.
• Lead proofs-of-concept and evaluate emerging AI technologies.
• Engage in full SDLC activities from requirements to deployment.

Skills

Python

FastAPI

Async programming

API design

MongoDB

Redis

Tools

LangChain

LangGraph

Dependency injection

Background processing

CI/CD pipeline development

Kubernetes/OpenShift

OpenTelemetry

Splunk

Job description

Python/AI Engineer

18 Month W2 Contract

NYC- Hyrbird 3 days onsite

$60-$68/hour

Python Developer/ AI Engineer

Project Details

• Develop core Agent Runtime capabilities and reusable platform services.
• Build agent orchestration, memory management, context management, and runtime execution capabilities.
• Develop APIs, SDKs, and platform components for scalable AI adoption.
• Implement platform guardrails, security controls, governance, and policy enforcement capabilities.
• Build testing, benchmarking, evaluation, and observability frameworks.
• Troubleshoot runtime, performance, integration, scalability, and operational issues.
• Conduct proof-of-concepts and evaluate emerging AI technologies.
• Participate in full SDLC activities including requirements analysis, design, development, testing, and deployment.
• Conduct code reviews and contribute to engineering standards and best practices.

Must Haves / Required Skills

7 years of experience minimum, internships do not count

• Python.
• FastAPI.
• Asynchronous programming (async/await).
• API design and integration.
• MongoDB.
• Redis.

Skills / Experience That Are A Plus

"nice to have", but not necessarily required:

• LangChain.
• LangGraph.
• Dependency injection.
• Background processing.
• Automated testing (unit, integration, regression, performance, evaluation).
• CI/CD pipeline development.
• Enterprise application development.
• Security controls, governance, policy enforcement, and guardrails.
• Look for candidates with enterprise platform engineering, API development, testing automation, CI/CD, and distributed systems experience.
• Experience building reusable frameworks, SDKs, platform services, and developer tooling is highly relevant.
• AI agent framework experience (LangChain, LangGraph, etc.) is beneficial but not required.

We are seeking a Software Engineer to help develop AI solutions. In this role, you will ensure that software is developed to meet functional, non-functional and compliance requirements, and solutions are well designed with maintainability/ease of integration and testing built-in from the outset.

This includes requirements analysis, architecture design, coding, testing, and deployment. Job expectations include a considerable amount of knowledge of development and testing practices common to the industry and design and architectural patterns.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and enhance core Agent Runtime capabilities and reusable platform services that enable the development, deployment, orchestration, and management of AI agents.
• Implement agent platform features, including tool integration frameworks, orchestration logic, memory management, context management, and runtime execution capabilities.
• Develop and maintain platform controls, guardrails, policy enforcement mechanisms, and safety capabilities to support secure and compliant use of Generative AI solutions.
• Build and enhance evaluation frameworks, automated testing capabilities, benchmarking tools, and observability solutions to measure agent quality, reliability, safety, and performance.
• Design and implement APIs, SDKs, and platform components that enable scalable adoption of agent capabilities across engineering teams.
• Translate business, product, and technical requirements into robust software solutions while adhering to enterprise architecture, security, and compliance standards.
• Execute story refinement, technical analysis, solution design, and effort estimation activities throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Perform proof-of-concept development and technical experimentation to evaluate emerging AI technologies, frameworks, and design patterns.
• Develop and maintain automated unit, integration, regression, performance, and evaluation test suites to ensure platform stability and reliability.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues involving agent execution, model integration, runtime performance, scaling, observability, and platform operations.
• Optimize platform components for performance, reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency across production environments.
• Conduct peer code reviews and contribute to engineering standards, development practices, and reusable patterns that improve overall platform quality.
• Ensure delivered solutions meet defined expectations for functionality, security, governance, quality, reliability, and operational supportability.

Experience Required

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience designing, developing, and supporting enterprise-grade applications and platform services.
• Strong experience developing Python-based services using FastAPI, asynchronous programming patterns (async/await), API design, dependency injection, background processing, and integration with external systems and services.
• Experience developing reusable platform capabilities, SDKs, frameworks, or shared services used by multiple engineering teams.
• Experience implementing security controls, policy enforcement, guardrails, governance capabilities, and observability solutions for enterprise applications.
• Experience designing and implementing automated testing frameworks, including unit, integration, regression, performance, and evaluation testing.
• Experience developing CI/CD pipelines and automating software build, deployment, and release processes.
• Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills with the ability to diagnose and resolve complex application, runtime, performance, and integration issues.
• Experience working in Agile development environments and participating in requirements analysis, technical design, estimation, and software delivery.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills with the ability to work effectively across engineering, product, and architecture teams.

Experience Desired (not essential)

• Kubernetes/OpenShift
• Kafka and event-driven architecture
• MongoDB and Redis
• LangChain, LangGraph, or similar agent frameworks
• OpenTelemetry and Splunk
• Galileo, LangSmith, or similar AI evaluation and observability tools