Senior Agentic AI Software Engineer
Major US airline · Fort Worth, TX 76102
- Location
- Fort Worth, TX 76102 · 3 days/week onsite
- Salary band
- $52 – $52/hr
- Type
- Contract
- Level
- Senior
- Work authorization
- No sponsorship — now or in future
Stack
Python · FastAPI · LangGraph · LangChain · REST APIs · gRPC · Kubernetes · Terraform · Docker · AWS · Azure · CI/CD · CloudFormation · Pulumi · Kafka · Redis · Datadog · OpenTelemetry · Java · Go
About the role
Senior Agentic AI Software Engineer - Python, FastAPI, LangGraph/LangChain, REST/gRPC APIs, Kubernetes & Terraform Fort Worth, TX 76102 - Hybrid 6 Months CONTRACT Rate: $52/hr on 1099 (Less if W2) W2/1099-Only USC/GC-Only Description: As a Software Engineer on the Agentic System Layer (ASL) team, you will build and maintain the core platform components that power agentic AI systems. Day-to-day responsibilities include: developing and maintaining agent orchestration services, tool registries, and execution runtimes; building APIs and microservices for LLM integration, prompt management, and agent lifecycle management; implementing observability, logging, and monitoring for agentic workflows; writing comprehensive tests (unit, integration, end-to-end) for platform reliability; collaborating with architects on design decisions and with ML engineers on model integration; participating in on-call rotations for production support of the AI platform; contributing to CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and deployment automation. Top 3 Mandatory Skills and Experience: 1) 5+ years software engineering experience with strong proficiency in Python, plus working knowledge of at least one of Java, Go, or TypeScript; hands-on experience building production REST/gRPC APIs and microservices. 2) Solid experience with cloud platforms (AWS or Azure preferred), containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi). 3) Working experience with LLM integration patterns, prompt engineering, or AI/ML application development; familiarity with frameworks like LangChain, LangGraph, or similar orchestration tools. Nice to Have Skills: Experience with event-driven architectures (Kafka, EventBridge), vector databases, observability tools (Datadog, Splunk, OpenTelemetry), agent evaluation frameworks, FastAPI/Flask, async Python, Redis/caching patterns, airline or travel industry experience. Describe a great candidate that you are looking for and what skills and experience they will have: A great candidate is a solid mid-level to senior engineer who writes clean, testable code and has genuine curiosity about AI/ML systems. They do not need to be a deep ML expert, but they should understand how LLMs work, what agentic patterns look like, and how to build reliable services around non-deterministic components. They take ownership, write good tests, communicate clearly in code reviews, and are comfortable operating production systems. Additional Details: Candidate must have 5+ years of experience. Candidate must work onsite Tuesdays - Thursdays; virtually Mondays and Fridays.
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