Senior AI Engineer - Agentic & Generative for Enterprise

Environmental and Safety Solutions, Inc.; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Environmental and Safety Solutions, Inc. seeks a Senior Agentic AI Engineer to design, develop, and deploy production-grade Generative AI applications on Microsoft Azure.

You will build LLM-powered solutions, RAG pipelines, and multi-agent orchestration for enterprise-grade deployments. You will collaborate with architects, software and data engineers and business stakeholders to translate requirements into AI-powered software.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (or international equivalent) and 8+ years in software engineering.
• 2-3 years hands-on Generative AI/LLM/Agentic AI development.
• Experience building production-grade cloud apps on Azure.
• Frontend with React + TypeScript and backend with Node.js.
• Hands-on with Azure Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, embeddings, and RAG.
• Familiar with agent frameworks like Microsoft Agent Framework, Semantic Kernel, LangGraph, AutoGen.
• Knowledge of LLMOps, CI/CD, Docker/Kubernetes, observability, and production AI ops.
• Experience with REST, SQL/NoSQL data stores, ETL pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Build LLM-powered applications for text generation, summarization, Q&A, and multi-agent orchestration.
• Develop advanced RAG pipelines using embeddings, Azure AI Search vector and hybrid retrieval, document chunking, metadata filtering, reranking, citations, and grounding techniques with enterprise data.
• Build secure, reliable integrations between AI agents and enterprise tools, REST APIs, relational databases, and event-driven services.
• Develop user-facing AI application experiences using React and TypeScript, and supporting application services using Node.js or comparable back-end technologies.
• Design and implement single-agent and multi-agent systems for intelligent automation, decisioning, and complex workflows.
• Build autonomous and human-in-the-loop agents that plan, reason, act, and interact with tools, APIs, enterprise data, and event-driven systems.
• Develop agentic workflows using Microsoft Agent Framework, Azure AI Foundry services, or comparable modern orchestration frameworks.
• Implement configuration-driven agent behavior, prompt and tool management, authorization boundaries, and resilient error-handling patterns.
• Define and automate evaluation approaches for agent quality, including groundedness, relevance, citation quality, safety, and regression testing.
• Instrument agent workflows for traces, tool calls, latency, token usage, errors, and operational metrics using OpenTelemetry, Application Insights, or comparable observability platforms.
• Build highly scalable, secure, containerized solutions with CI/CD, health checks, horizontal scaling, and production monitoring.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Communication

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or international equivalent

Tools

React

TypeScript

Node.js

Docker

Kubernetes

Azure Foundry

Azure OpenAI

Azure AI Search

Semantic Kernel

LangGraph

AutoGen

Job description

Environmental and Safety Solutions, Inc. seeks a Senior Agentic AI Engineer to design, develop, and deploy production-grade Generative AI applications on Microsoft Azure.

You will build LLM-powered solutions, RAG pipelines, and multi-agent orchestration for enterprise-grade deployments. You will collaborate with architects, software and data engineers and business stakeholders to translate requirements into AI-powered software.