Senior Python AI Engineer - Agentic AI (San Francisco)

Position: Python Developer
Location: San Francisco CA - Hybrid - 3 days Onsite
Duration: 3 months contract (possibility of an extension)

Job Overview:
* Part of the Consumer Technology Marketing Technology organization.
* Focused on building and deploying greenfield Agentic AI solutions.
* Team is developing AI agents that orchestrate and automate marketing campaign activities.
* Since launching in March, the team has successfully built 6 AI agents and is now entering the next phase of scaling and enhancement.
* The first production agents are scheduled to go live on August 24th.
* Long-term roadmap is expected to expand to 20+ AI agents.
* This is one of the bank's first major Agentic AI initiatives and is considered a highly visible, strategic program.

Role Overview
* Hands-on development role with a strong coding focus.
* Resources will primarily be building, enhancing, and supporting AI agents rather than spending significant time in meetings.
* Daily collaboration occurs through team standups and close interaction with developers and architects.
* Candidates should be comfortable communicating technical needs and blockers, though executive-facing responsibilities are minimal.

Target Candidate Profile
* Strong backend Python developer with experience building and supporting microservices-based applications.
* Experience designing and consuming APIs.
* Familiarity with Large Language Models (LLMs), Agentic AI frameworks, and AI orchestration concepts.
* Experience working with MongoDB and vector databases.
* Financial services experience is not required.

Required Experience
* Python: 5+ years
* Microservices: 5+ years
* API Development/Integration: 5+ years
* MongoDB: 5+ years
* Agentic AI: 2+ years preferred

Why Candidates Are Interested
* Opportunity to work on cutting-edge Agentic AI technology.
* Greenfield development environment with significant technical ownership.
* Collaborative, supportive, and highly engaged team culture.
* Potential for extension and conversion opportunities.

Core Technical Skills
* Python software engineering
* REST API development
* Microservices architecture
* Distributed systems design
* Backend service development
* FastAPI
* AsyncIO
* Multiprocessing
* Performance tuning and profiling
* Caching strategies
* Database/query optimization
* Event-driven architecture
* High-availability and fault-tolerant system design

Generative AI / LLM Skills
* Generative AI application development
* Large Language Models
* Agentic AI systems
* Multi-agent workflow design
* Retrieval-Augmented Generation
* Hybrid RAG architectures
* Knowledge graph-enhanced RAG
* Prompt engineering
* Prompt orchestration
* Tool calling
* LLM routing and fallback strategies
* Fine-tuning evaluation
* Model evaluation frameworks
* Hallucination detection
* Human-in-the-loop validation
* Text-to-SQL using LLMs
* Schema-aware prompting
* Embeddings and semantic search

AI Platform & Architecture Skills
* Enterprise AI platform architecture
* Scalable AI workflow design
* AI governance standards
* AI guardrails implementation
* Responsible AI controls
* PII redaction
* Audit logging
* Model usage monitoring
* Latency, cost, and accuracy optimization
* AI/ML feature engineering
* Recommendation systems
* Feedback loops for model improvement

Data Engineering Skills
* Kafka
* Streaming data pipelines

Databases & Vector Search
* Vector database architecture
* Semantic retrieval
* Re-ranking
* Embedding pipelines

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