Senior AI & Agent Development Leader

Aimlroles; Lewisville (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Acosta Group seeks a Senior AI Engineer / Agent Development Lead to expand hands-on AI engineering capacity for agents, copilots, and automation across enterprise programs. You will design, build, and deploy reusable AI components, integrate with enterprise data, and ensure governance and responsible AI practices.

You will collaborate with AI Architecture and AI Solutions Delivery leadership to scale agentic AI, reduce bottlenecks, and enable production-grade implementations while maintaining

Qualifications

• 7+ years hands-on software/AI/automation/engineering experience.
• 3+ years building AI-enabled applications, automation workflows, agentic AI solutions, copilots, RAG solutions, ML-enabled systems, APIs, enterprise integrations, or orchestration capabilities.
• Strong programming, scripting, API, integration, testing, debugging, and deployment skills.
• Practical familiarity with GenAI, LLMs, prompt engineering, retrieval, embeddings, agent orchestration, tool calling, multi-step reasoning, evaluation, monitoring, and responsible AI guardrails.
• Hands-on experience designing agentic workflow solutions that combine planning, reasoning, tool use, enterprise data access, APIs, human-in-the-loop controls, exception handling, and operational monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and support AI agents, copilots, RAG workflows, automations, integrations, APIs, prompts, evaluation assets, and reusable AI components.
• Develop AI agent and workflow solutions using approved enterprise platforms, standards, templates, and governance requirements.
• Partner with the AI Solutions Delivery Lead, AI Architecture leader, Data, Technology, Cyber, and business stakeholders to implement priority use cases.
• Create reusable components and development patterns that improve speed, consistency, security, and maintainability across AI initiatives.
• Support movement from prototype to production by contributing to testing, deployment, monitoring, documentation, release management, and operational handoff.
• Integrate AI solutions with enterprise data sources, applications, collaboration tools, workflow systems, APIs, and knowledge repositories where approved.
• Apply responsible AI and security requirements, including data handling, access controls, human-in-the-loop design, auditability, and appropriate use.
• Troubleshoot agent behavior, workflow errors, prompt quality, retrieval issues, integration failures, and performance concerns.
• Support internal teams, citizen developers, analysts, and delivery partners by sharing technical guidance, patterns, and working examples.
• Stay current on emerging GenAI, agentic AI, orchestration, evaluation, and enterprise AI engineering practices.

Skills

Software engineering

AI engineering

Automation engineering

Data engineering

Cloud engineering

Enterprise app development

Programming

API integration

Testing & debugging

Deployment

GenAI familiarity

LLMs & prompt engineering

Tool orchestration

Tools

Microsoft Copilot Studio

Azure AI Foundry

Semantic Kernel

AutoGen

LangGraph

LangChain

CrewAI

LlamaIndex

OpenAI Agents SDK

Job description

Acosta Group seeks a Senior AI Engineer / Agent Development Lead to expand hands-on AI engineering capacity for agents, copilots, and automation across enterprise programs. You will design, build, and deploy reusable AI components, integrate with enterprise data, and ensure governance and responsible AI practices.

You will collaborate with AI Architecture and AI Solutions Delivery leadership to scale agentic AI, reduce bottlenecks, and enable production-grade implementations while maintaining