Senior AI Engineer: Generative & Agentic AI Solutions

Credence; City of Rome (NY); On-site; USD 155,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental &amp

Retirement Plan (401k, IRA)

Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary &

Job summary

Credence is seeking a Senior AI Software Engineer to design, develop, and deploy AI-driven solutions for federal clients. You will lead generative AI and LLM projects, build agentic AI systems, mentor engineers, and ensure secure, scalable delivery.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, implement IaC and DevSecOps practices, and contribute to reusable standards while staying aligned with mission goals and responsible AI innovation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, AI/ML, or related field.
• 7+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, including significant experience delivering AI/ML, generative AI, or LLM-powered solutions in production or production-like environments.
• Experience building generative AI applications, working with LLMs, implementing tool/function calling, and applying model evaluation, prompt/context engineering, or retrieval-augmented generation approaches.
• Experience designing or implementing agentic AI solutions using frameworks or platforms such as Agent2Agent Protocol, Bedrock Agents, Mastra, CrewAI, Strands, AgentCore, LangChain, or LangGraph.
• Strong understanding of leading AI APIs and model platforms such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Vertex AI.
• Proficiency in TypeScript and familiarity with key libraries and frameworks such as Nx, Next.js, Mastra, Vercel AI SDK, Playwright, Jest, and Vite.
• Python proficiency and familiarity with libraries and frameworks (uv, Pydantic, FastAPI, CrewAI, LangChain, LangGraph, Unstructured).
• Demonstrated curiosity and practical experimentation with emerging AI technologies, with a strong focus on responsible innovation and measurable mission impact.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI)
• Experience with VS Code and AI extensions such as Claude Code.
• U.S. Citizenship with eligibility for DoD Secret clearance.

Responsibilities

• Generative AI & LLM Solution Delivery: Lead design, development, prototyping, and refinement of AI-powered capabilities using generative AI, LLMs, retrieval patterns, prompt engineering, and secure API integrations.
• Agentic AI System Development: Own end-to-end agentic AI development lifecycles, including model selection, agent design, tool calling, orchestration, response synthesis, evaluation, and deployment.
• Senior Software Engineering Leadership: Apply strong software engineering principles to design maintainable, testable, and scalable systems; conduct code reviews and establish technical patterns.
• Cross-Functional Technical Collaboration: Partner with data engineers, software engineers, data scientists, cloud engineers, and stakeholders to translate needs into AI solutions.
• Cloud Enablement & DevSecOps Integration: Design and automate deployment workflows using IaC, CI/CD, containers, and cloud-native services.
• Production Monitoring & Optimization: Monitor AI systems post-deployment, perform performance tuning, and ensure reliability and scalability.
• Technical Rigor & Documentation: Write clean, well-documented code following guidelines; support reproducible development.
• Technical Mentorship & Continuous Improvement: Stay current on AI trends and mentoring, contributing to standards and design reviews.

Skills

Generative AI

LLMs

Agentic AI

Software engineering leadership

Communication skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Mentorship

Curiosity about AI trends

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, AI/ML, or related field

Tools

Agent2Agent Protocol

Bedrock Agents

Mastra

CrewAI

Strands

AgentCore

LangChain

LangGraph

OpenAI API

Anthropic API

Gemini API

Amazon Bedrock

Google Vertex AI

TypeScript

Nx

Next.js

Vercel AI SDK

Playwright

Jest

Vite

Pydantic

FastAPI

GitLab CI

VS Code

Claude Code

Job description

Credence is seeking a Senior AI Software Engineer to design, develop, and deploy AI-driven solutions for federal clients. You will lead generative AI and LLM projects, build agentic AI systems, mentor engineers, and ensure secure, scalable delivery.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, implement IaC and DevSecOps practices, and contribute to reusable standards while staying aligned with mission goals and responsible AI innovation.