Senior AI Engineer — Agentic Systems & LLM Orchestration

artificial intelligence and robotics laboratory (itu air lab); Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Air is seeking an experienced AI Engineer to join our Agentic AI team in Pittsburgh, focusing on planning, memory, and inter-agent coordination for government-scale applications. You will design front-end architectures with agent-controlled UI and tool invocations, and deploy production-grade ML/LLM-powered systems.

Responsibilities include building multi-agent systems, developing modular agent skills, and collaborating with Product teams to address customer challenges while operating in a

Qualifications

• 5+ years designing, building, and deploying production-grade ML/LLM systems with ownership of end-to-end delivery.
• Bachelor’s/Master’s/Doctorate in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Science, or related field.
• Practical experience building and productionizing ML systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and build multi-agent systems with tool use, memory, routing, and planning.
• Develop modular Agent Skills and tools that interface with backend systems, models, and data processing.
• Assist automated evaluation of agents, skills, and prompts across the product lifecycle.
• Collaborate with Product and Implementation teams to solve customer problems with agents.

Skills

Python

LLMs

AWS

Git

Teamwork

Education

CS/CE/DS degree

Tools

Claude Agent SDK

OpenAI Agent SDK

Job description

Air is seeking an experienced AI Engineer to join our Agentic AI team in Pittsburgh, focusing on planning, memory, and inter-agent coordination for government-scale applications. You will design front-end architectures with agent-controlled UI and tool invocations, and deploy production-grade ML/LLM-powered systems.

Responsibilities include building multi-agent systems, developing modular agent skills, and collaborating with Product teams to address customer challenges while operating in a