Senior AI Engineer & Agent Development Lead

Acosta Group; Lewisville (TX); On-site; USD 105,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Acosta Group is seeking a Senior AI Engineer / Agent Development Lead to expand hands-on engineering capacity for AI agents, copilots, and workflow automations across enterprise programs.

This role collaborates with AI Architecture and AI Solutions Delivery leadership to build reusable AI capabilities, enforce governance, and scale agentic AI responsibly while partnering with data, cyber, and business teams.

Qualifications

• 7+ years hands-on software engineering or AI engineering.
• 3+ years building AI-enabled apps, copilots, or autonomous workflows.
• Strong programming, scripting, API, testing, and deployment skills.
• Experience with GenAI, LLMs, prompt engineering, and guardrails.
• Experience designing agentic workflow solutions with data access and 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 for speed, consistency, security, and maintainability across AI initiatives.
• Support movement from prototype to production through testing, deployment, monitoring, documentation, release management, and handoff.
• Integrate AI solutions with enterprise data sources, applications, collaboration tools, workflow systems, APIs, and knowledge repositories.
• Apply responsible AI and security requirements, including data handling, access controls, and human-in-the-loop design.
• Troubleshoot agent behavior, workflow errors, prompt quality, and integration failures.
• Share technical guidance and examples with internal teams and citizen developers.
• Stay current on GenAI, agentic AI, orchestration, evaluation, and enterprise AI engineering practices.

Skills

AI engineering

Agent orchestration

Software engineering

GenAI & LLMs

Prompt engineering

Integration & APIs

Communication skills

Tools

Microsoft Copilot Studio

Azure AI Foundry

Semantic Kernel

AutoGen

LangGraph

LangChain

LlamaIndex

OpenAI Agents SDK

Job description

Acosta Group is seeking a Senior AI Engineer / Agent Development Lead to expand hands-on engineering capacity for AI agents, copilots, and workflow automations across enterprise programs.

This role collaborates with AI Architecture and AI Solutions Delivery leadership to build reusable AI capabilities, enforce governance, and scale agentic AI responsibly while partnering with data, cyber, and business teams.