Senior Agentic AI Engineer — Remote (LLM & Agents)

Socket.dev; Huntington Beach (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Socket.dev is seeking a Senior Agentic AI Software Engineer for a fully remote role in the United States. You will build AI-powered chatbots and agentic workflows, integrating LLMs with tools and enterprise systems.

The role emphasizes multi-step reasoning, tool use, and robust backend services. The ideal candidate has 7+ years of software engineering experience, strong English communication, and hands-on experience with Generative AI and LLM platforms.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Hands-on with Generative AI / Agentic AI applications.
• Experience with Python and/or Java.
• Experience building LLM-powered chatbots or conversational AI.
• Familiarity with OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic or similar platforms.
• Proficiency with REST APIs, backend services, and cloud platforms.
• Strong software architecture, design patterns, testing, and CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and enhance agentic AI and LLM-powered chatbot applications.
• Build AI agents capable of multi-step reasoning, tool use, and task execution.
• Develop backend services and APIs supporting AI and chatbot functionality.
• Integrate LLMs, AI services, enterprise systems, databases, and external APIs.
• Implement RAG, prompt engineering, tool calling, and agent orchestration.
• Improve AI response quality, latency, and production reliability.
• Collaborate with product managers, architects, data scientists, and engineers.

Skills

7+ years software engineering

Business English

Generative AI / Agentic AI

Python

Java

LLM-powered chatbots

REST APIs

Cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP)

Software architecture

Databases / enterprise integrations

Job description

Socket.dev is seeking a Senior Agentic AI Software Engineer for a fully remote role in the United States. You will build AI-powered chatbots and agentic workflows, integrating LLMs with tools and enterprise systems.

The role emphasizes multi-step reasoning, tool use, and robust backend services. The ideal candidate has 7+ years of software engineering experience, strong English communication, and hands-on experience with Generative AI and LLM platforms.