Senior AI Platform Engineer for LLMs & Agent Frameworks

Heitmeyer Consulting; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Heitmeyer Consulting seeks a Senior AI Engineer to join the Engineering Frameworks Team, building AI platforms and developer tools used across the organization.

The role emphasizes hands-on work with GCP, Gemini, Vertex AI, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, MCP, Java/Spring Boot, and agentic AI frameworks to deliver secure, scalable, and maintainable solutions that boost developer productivity.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of software/AI engineering or related field.
• Proven production-quality software delivery experience.
• Hands-on experience building or integrating AI/LLM, developer-platform, or automation solutions.
• Experience with GCP, Gemini, Vertex AI.
• Experience developing Java/Spring Boot REST APIs.
• Knowledge of secure API integrations and OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect.
• Familiarity with React.js and modern front-end approaches.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain AI platforms, developer tools, frameworks, and shared services.
• Build and integrate AI capabilities using GCP, Gemini, Vertex AI, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, MCP, and agentic frameworks.
• Design reusable orchestration patterns, references, and tools for custom AI agents.
• Develop sequential, multi-agent, and deterministic graph-based workflows.
• Build and support MCP servers and clients exposing tools, resources, and data to AI agents.
• Develop Java/Spring Boot services and REST APIs."
• Integrate AI services with enterprise cloud, security, identity, and development platforms.
• Implement logging, metrics, tracing, token-utilization monitoring, and observability.
• Apply security, privacy, access control, responsible AI, governance, and cost-management practices.
• Support development teams in building, deploying, and operating custom agents and AI services.
• Participate in architecture discussions, code reviews, troubleshooting, testing, and technical design.
• Contribute to documentation, release management, adoption, and continuous improvement of shared AI platforms.
• Mentor junior engineers and share AI engineering best practices across development teams.

Skills

Problem solving

Communication

Documentation

Collaboration

Security & governance awareness

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science or related field

Tools

GCP

Gemini

Vertex AI

Claude Code

GitHub Copilot

MCP

OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect

Java / Spring Boot

React.js

LangChain / LangChain4j

Google ADK

Spring AI

A2A protocol

Azure DevOps

Job description

Heitmeyer Consulting seeks a Senior AI Engineer to join the Engineering Frameworks Team, building AI platforms and developer tools used across the organization.

The role emphasizes hands-on work with GCP, Gemini, Vertex AI, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, MCP, Java/Spring Boot, and agentic AI frameworks to deliver secure, scalable, and maintainable solutions that boost developer productivity.