Remote AI Engineer: Agentic Systems & LLM Pipelines

ICON; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

ICON is seeking a pragmatic AI Software Engineer to design and ship AI-powered tools, workflows and autonomous agents that accelerate ICON's construction technology platform. Remote role with periodic travel to Austin, TX HQ.

You will work on multi-agent pipelines, LLM-powered features, and MCP integrations, collaborating with cross-functional teams to turn AI automation opportunities into shipped products.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience shipping production-grade AI products using LLMs.
• Proficiency in TypeScript and/or Python.
• Deep understanding of prompt engineering and LLM reasoning.
• Experience with tool-use, function calling, and agent orchestration.
• Ability to design and execute structured evals to measure AI system performance.
• Strong communication skills and cross-functional collaboration.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Design and build agentic AI systems that automate complex, multi-step workflows across ICON's software platform.
• Develop LLM-powered features and products using state-of-the-art foundation models and APIs (e.g. Anthropic, OpenAI).
• Architect and implement multi-agent pipelines, tool-use systems, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations.
• Build robust RAG systems including document ingestion, chunking strategies, embedding pipelines, and vector retrieval.
• Collaborate with software and domain teams to identify high-leverage AI automation opportunities and translate them into shipped products.
• Own the full development lifecycle of AI features: prototyping, evaluation, deployment, and iteration.
• Serve as a technical resource and informal mentor on agentic AI best practices across the engineering organization.
• Stay at the leading edge of the agentic AI landscape and bring emerging techniques into production.

Skills

Backend development

Full-stack development

LLMs & agentic frameworks

TypeScript

Python

Prompt engineering

Tool-use & orchestration

Security clearance

Communication

Education

BS/MS in CS or related field

Tools

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Claude Code

AWS

Serverless

Job description

ICON is seeking a pragmatic AI Software Engineer to design and ship AI-powered tools, workflows and autonomous agents that accelerate ICON's construction technology platform. Remote role with periodic travel to Austin, TX HQ.

You will work on multi-agent pipelines, LLM-powered features, and MCP integrations, collaborating with cross-functional teams to turn AI automation opportunities into shipped products.