Senior Full-Stack AI Engineer — Forward-Deployed Leader

HITEC; Frisco (TX); Hybrid; USD 144,000 - 273,000; Full time

Job summary

Kyndryl designs, builds, and modernizes mission‑critical technology systems worldwide. As an Associate Director, you will lead high‑impact AI engagements, shape scalable architectures, and own end‑to‑end delivery across frontend, backend, and data pipelines.

You will work in a fast-paced lab environment, collaborating with clients to deliver production‑grade solutions while advancing your expertise in RAG, multi‑agent workflows, and cloud deployments.

Qualifications

• Based in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex (or ready to relocate) with a hybrid schedule of 3 days onsite per week at the Frisco, TX Agentic AI Lab.
• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience with strong proficiency in Python and JavaScript/TypeScript backend development.
• Hands‑on experience building, designing, and deploying applications using modern frameworks and orchestrators (e.g., LangChain, AutoGen, or CrewAI) in production.
• Experience designing and maintaining modern frontend applications (React, Angular, or Vue), particularly handling streaming data or real‑time query responses.
• Practical understanding and deployment experience with Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines and vector databases (e.g., Pinecone, Milvus, Qdrant, Chroma).
• Experience deploying containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes to major cloud hyper‑scalers (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and distributed computing architectures.
• Strong proficiency with SQL (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases, alongside solid data engineering tools such as Pandas and Spark.
• Deep familiarity with Git, GitHub, CI/CD pipelines, version control, and modern software delivery best practices.

Responsibilities

• Full‑Stack Architecture & Rapid Prototyping: Build and scale responsive frontends and robust backend APIs.
• Agentic AI & Knowledge Systems Integration: Design and deploy multi‑agent orchestration frameworks and optimize RAG architectures.
• Client Co‑Creation & Technical Ownership: Embed with enterprise client teams and own end‑to‑end technical delivery.

Skills

Python

JavaScript/TypeScript

Frontend frameworks (React/Angular/Vue

RAG pipelines

LangChain/AutoGen/CrewAI

Docker/Kubernetes

SQL/NoSQL

Git/CI/CD

Cloud deployment

Tools

LangChain

AutoGen

CrewAI

Docker

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

Spark

Job description

Kyndryl designs, builds, and modernizes mission‑critical technology systems worldwide. As an Associate Director, you will lead high‑impact AI engagements, shape scalable architectures, and own end‑to‑end delivery across frontend, backend, and data pipelines.

You will work in a fast-paced lab environment, collaborating with clients to deliver production‑grade solutions while advancing your expertise in RAG, multi‑agent workflows, and cloud deployments.