Remote Agentic AI Engineer - MCP & Tooling

Gdh Consulting, Inc.; Maryland; On-site; USD 90,000 - 103,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work options

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

GDH Consulting, Inc. is seeking a senior software leader to design, develop, and operationalize advanced agentic AI systems powered by LLMs and MCP frameworks. You will lead, design scalable cloud-native solutions, and mentor teams across engineering disciplines.

The role emphasizes production-grade implementations, security governance, and staying at the forefront of AI tool-use and optimization. This is a fully remote role with U.S. citizenship eligibility required for security clearance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of professional experience in software development, particularly in building scalable, production applications.
• Proven expertise in developing agentic AI solutions, including planning, tool use, and multistep workflows.
• Hands-on experience with MCP-based integrations, tool interfaces, and model-driven frameworks.
• Proficiency in Python programming, distributed computing, APIs, microservices, and cloud-native architectures.
• Experience deploying AI solutions on cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Strong knowledge of MLOps principles including versioning, deployment automation, and monitoring.
• Ability to interpret complex requirements and develop scalable AI solutions.
• Effective communication skills to collaborate with technical and non-technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain production-grade applications and services leveraging agentic AI systems, including planning, tool use, and multistep reasoning.
• Design and implement MCP-based integrations, tool interfaces, and model-driven frameworks.
• Architect and deploy secure, scalable AI applications utilizing cloud-native environments such as Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Lead solution design efforts, mentor engineering teams, and communicate complex technical concepts to stakeholders.
• Translate ambiguous business or mission requirements into effective AI-driven solutions.
• Incorporate LLM development best practices, including finetuning, prompt engineering, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).
• Implement and manage version control, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and deployment automation.
• Ensure compliance, security, and governance standards, especially when handling sensitive data.
• Explore emerging agentic patterns, conduct proof-of-concept projects, and evaluate new frameworks and technologies.
• Support monitoring, testing, and optimization of agentic systems to enhance performance and reliability.

Skills

Agentic AI development

Python programming

Distributed computing

APIs & microservices

Cloud-native architectures

MLOps fundamentals

Problem solving

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/related field

Tools

MCP integrations

Model-driven frameworks

AWS

Azure

GCP

CI/CD tooling

Version control

Testing frameworks

Job description

GDH Consulting, Inc. is seeking a senior software leader to design, develop, and operationalize advanced agentic AI systems powered by LLMs and MCP frameworks. You will lead, design scalable cloud-native solutions, and mentor teams across engineering disciplines.

The role emphasizes production-grade implementations, security governance, and staying at the forefront of AI tool-use and optimization. This is a fully remote role with U.S. citizenship eligibility required for security clearance.