Senior Agentic AI Engineer - Multi-Agent Systems Lead

Bread Financial; Columbus (OH); Hybrid; USD 155,600 - 333,300; Full time

Job summary

Bread Financial is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer – Agentic AI to design and deliver core agent capabilities, including policy execution, reasoning, orchestration, and failure handling. You will build production-ready agent runtimes, memory systems, planners, and tool-routing components with strong observability and evaluation pipelines.

You will mentor peers, lead safety and compliance standards, and collaborate with Product to shape AI strategy while ensuring real-time data access

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field required.
• 12+ years of Software Engineering experience, incl. 2+ years in AI/ML/LLMs or agent-based systems.
• 3+ years of IaC (Terraform or Ansible).

Responsibilities

• Design and enhance multi-agent frameworks and LLM-powered autonomous systems.
• Implement and refine ReAct, CoT, and ToT reasoning loops across workflows.
• Measure and improve agent decision reliability with telemetry and guardrails.
• Architect safety controls using Policy Enforcement Points.
• Operate and scale production agentic AI platforms on Kubernetes.
• Establish enterprise safety guardrails and compliance for high-risk workflows.
• Partner with Product to shape AI strategy and real-time data access.
• Communicate complex agentic concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Skills

Agent Based Modeling

AWS

Datadog

OpenAI

Grafana

Graph Databases

Large Language Models

PostgreSQL

Prometheus

New Relic

Redis

Telemetry

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Master’s Degree (preferred)

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Bread Financial is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer – Agentic AI to design and deliver core agent capabilities, including policy execution, reasoning, orchestration, and failure handling. You will build production-ready agent runtimes, memory systems, planners, and tool-routing components with strong observability and evaluation pipelines.

You will mentor peers, lead safety and compliance standards, and collaborate with Product to shape AI strategy while ensuring real-time data access