Senior AI Agentic Engineer

Senior AI Agentic Engineer

Genesis10 is currently seeking a Senior AI Agentic Engineer for a hybrid position with a Regional Financial Institution located in Columbus, OH. This is a 9-12 month contract opportunity. Pay Range: $103.00 - $106.00 per hour based on experience. Job Overview: This is a senior, production-focused Architect/Engineer role responsible for designing, implementing, and hardening agentic AI solutions that operate safely and reliably in a regulated environment. This position will turn reference patterns into repeatable, production-grade implementations across multiple use cases. The role is accountable for the complete agent lifecycle, from prompt design and RAG integration to deployment and operational readiness.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Design and implement production agent workflows using reference patterns: single-agent, supervised multi-agent, and tool-using agents with clear human-in-the-loop decision gates
• Build tool integrations to enterprise services and banking systems (APIs, data products, document services) with strong error handling, authorization boundaries, and audit logging
• Engineer RAG pipelines and retrieval behavior (chunking, embedding selection, re-ranking, context assembly) that meet accuracy and latency targets for the use case
• Implement agent memory and state management patterns that are compliant (retention, access control) and operationally safe (bounded growth, clear reset/forget behaviors)
• Create and maintain evaluation harnesses and regression suites for non-deterministic outputs; define golden datasets and acceptance thresholds per capability
• Implement required guardrails (prompt injection defenses, tool restrictions, output filtering) and pass pre-deployment security gates
• Instrument agents for observability: decision traces, tool-call telemetry, retrieval diagnostics, token/cost metrics, and quality signals suitable for audits and incident response
• Ship via CI/CD with production readiness: feature flags, rollbacks, versioning, and runbooks aligned to Gate requirements
• Lead design and code reviews for agent components; mentor engineers and establish reusable patterns/components across teams
• Debug complex failure modes (hallucinations, retrieval drift, tool misuse, loop behaviors) and implement mitigations (fallback strategies, escalation rules, safe degradation)
• Coordinate on deployment, monitoring, and incident response; contribute to post-incident improvement actions
• Communicate up to the CIO level

Requirements:

• 7+ years in software engineering with 2+ years building LLM-enabled applications or agent systems (tool use/function calling, workflow orchestration, or agent frameworks) in production
• Hands-on experience with at least one frontier model platform (Claude, GPT-4+, Gemini) including tool use and multi-turn workflow design
• Production delivery experience: CI/CD, containerization (Docker), and operational readiness (monitoring, logging, incident response)
• Experience implementing and validating RAG systems (vector search, embeddings, retrieval quality) and testing approaches for non-deterministic outputs
• Ability to design for reliability and safety: failure mode thinking, graceful degradation, and clear human escalation paths

Desired Skills:

• Experience in regulated financial services (SOX, GLBA, data classification, audit expectations) and partnering with security/risk teams
• Experience with evaluation frameworks and model monitoring practices (offline evals, online quality metrics, drift detection)
• Experience building multi-agent orchestration and constraint systems (delegation policies, budgets, timeouts, sandboxing)
• Familiarity with secure software development (threat modeling, SAST/DAST, secrets management) and prompt injection defenses
• Experience integrating AI copilots/agents into developer workflows and using "agentic coding" tools responsibly

Only candidates available and ready to work directly as Genesis10 employees will be considered for this position. If you have the described qualifications and are interested in this exciting opportunity, please apply! Ranked a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S. by Staffing Industry Analysts for six consecutive years, Genesis10 puts thousands of consultants and employees to work across the United States every year in contract, contract-for-hire, and permanent placement roles. With more than 300 active clients, Genesis10 provides access to many of the Fortune 100 firms and a variety of mid-market organizations across the full spectrum of industry verticals. For contract roles, Genesis10 offers the benefits listed below. If this is a perm-placement opportunity, our recruiter can talk you through the unique benefits offered for that particular client. Benefits of Working with Genesis10:

• Access to hundreds of clients, most who have been working with Genesis10 for 5-20+ years
• The opportunity to have a career-home in Genesis10; many of our consultants have been working exclusively with Genesis10 for years
• Access to an experienced, caring recruiting team (more than 7 years of experience, on average)
• Behavioral Health Platform
• Medical, Dental, Vision
• Health Savings Account
• Voluntary Hospital Indemnity (Critical Illness & Accident)
• Voluntary Term Life Insurance
• 401K
• Sick Pay (for applicable states/municipalities)
• Commuter Benefits (Dallas, NYC, SF, and Illinois)

For multiple years running, Genesis10 has been recognized as a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S., as a Best Company for Work-Life Balance, as a Best Company for Career Growth, for Diversity, and for Leadership, amongst others. To learn more and to view all our available career opportunities, please visit us at our website. Genesis10 is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.