Senior AI Engineer for Production Agentic Systems

Bot Auto; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 160,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Job summary

Bot Auto is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Applied AI to architect, build, ship, and operate production-grade AI and agentic systems across Bot Auto. You will own the system end-to-end across backend services, full-stack apps, databases, and integration with enterprise tools.

The role focuses on probabilistic agent reasoning, tool calling, memory, and guardrails, while ensuring security, scalability, and cost efficiency in production environments.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of relevant professional software engineering experience or equivalent production systems experience.
• Hands-on experience architecting, building, shipping, and operating production-grade AI agentic applications or workflows.
• Strong backend and full-stack engineering capability across services, APIs, databases, and state.
• Proficient in Python and at least one modern language (TypeScript/JavaScript or Go).
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, data modeling, transactions, and production design.
• Solid knowledge of cloud infrastructure, containers, CI/CD, observability, security, and operations.
• In-depth understanding of LLM/agent systems, tool orchestration, memory, and guardrails.
• Experience handling production issues like nondeterministic failures, latency, and cost trade-offs.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture and end-to-end implementation of production agentic products and workflows.
• Design boundaries between deterministic software, workflow engines, databases, and probabilistic reasoning.
• Build and review backend services, APIs, full-stack apps, and operator tools for agentic workflows.
• Design agent orchestration, tool contracts, memory, context, and failure recovery.
• Design production data architecture, including schemas, caching, and event systems.
• Integrate AI systems with enterprise tools and data platforms with proper permissions and auditability.
• Collaborate with infrastructure on cloud, containers, CI/CD, observability, security, and cost.
• Create reusable engineering patterns and translate high-value workflows into reliable products.

Skills

Backend development

Full-stack development

Python

TypeScript/JavaScript

Go

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

CI/CD

Observability

LLM/agent systems

Tool calling

Performance optimization

Production issue ownership

Tools

MCP

LangGraph

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Temporal

Job description

Bot Auto is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Applied AI to architect, build, ship, and operate production-grade AI and agentic systems across Bot Auto. You will own the system end-to-end across backend services, full-stack apps, databases, and integration with enterprise tools.

The role focuses on probabilistic agent reasoning, tool calling, memory, and guardrails, while ensuring security, scalability, and cost efficiency in production environments.