Senior AI Agent Engineer

Harnham; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Harnham is seeking a Senior AI Engineer in Houston, TX to build production-grade AI agents and agentic systems. You will design architectures, orchestrate multi-step workflows, and integrate LLMs with enterprise APIs and data sources.

You will lead backend and frontend efforts, develop data pipelines, and ensure security, reliability, and performance in production environments. On-site role with strong emphasis on end-to-end delivery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or related field.
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience building production applications.
• Strong backend/software engineering experience with Python and RESTful APIs.
• Hands-on experience building LLM-powered applications, AI agents, or agentic workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deploy production-grade AI agents capable of multi-step workflows.
• Develop agentic systems that reason over data, invoke tools, and interact with APIs.
• Build secure mechanisms for agents to interact with enterprise systems and tools.
• Implement guardrails, human-in-the-loop workflows, and observability for production deployment.

Skills

Python

LLM apps

Agent orchestration

Memory management

Context engineering

API integration

Distributed systems

Frontend: React/Next.js

Data pipelines

Databricks

GCP

CI/CD

AI coding tools

Education

Bachelor’s in CS

Tools

LangGraph

LangChain

LlamaIndex

AutoGen

MCP

Job description

Harnham is seeking a Senior AI Engineer in Houston, TX to build production-grade AI agents and agentic systems. You will design architectures, orchestrate multi-step workflows, and integrate LLMs with enterprise APIs and data sources.

You will lead backend and frontend efforts, develop data pipelines, and ensure security, reliability, and performance in production environments. On-site role with strong emphasis on end-to-end delivery.