Senior AI Engineer (AI Agents / OpenAI)

The role

This person will design and implement AI-powered features, including LLM integration and AI agents. They will also build non-AI features, services, and business logic for a customer support research and resolution platform.

What you will do

• Design and implement AI-powered features: integrate LLM and build AI agents.
• Design and implement end-to-end non-AI features, services and business logic.
• Build and maintain MCP servers to expose domain data and capabilities as tools for AI agents.
• Implement RAG workflows to ground LLM responses in factual data.
• Instrument and optimize OpenAI integrations for cost, latency, and accuracy.
• Collaborate with product, design and architecture teams.
• Participate in technical design reviews.

Required qualifications

• 6+ years of server-side engineering experience, designing and building enterprise-scale software systems.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems design patterns.
• Strong knowledge of different types of data stores (relational, document, vector, key-value).
• Fluent in React, Node.js, TypeScript.
• Confident integrating OpenAI models in real-world applications.
• Fluent in at least one non-JS programming language.
• 6+ years of professional backend engineering experience.
• 3+ years with TypeScript/Node.js.
• 9+ months of commercial experience building AI features using OpenAI ecosystem.
• Hands-on expertise with the OpenAI Agents SDK.
• Experience designing and implementing MCP servers.
• Proven ability to design structured prompt architectures with evals, guardrails and observability.

Nice to have

• Java is a strong advantage
• Understanding concepts of semantic search is a strong advantage
• Experience playing a role of team leaders is a strong advantage
• Exposure to other LLM providers (e.g., Anthropic, Mistral AI, Hugging Face) is a strong advantage
• Experience with streaming UIs, conversational UX, and SSE/WebSockets
• Knowledge of prompt injection defenses and responsible AI practices

Benefits

• Shape real-world AI-driven projects across key industries
• Be part of a global team with equal opportunities for collaboration
• Inclusive environment that prioritizes continuous learning, innovation, and ethical AI standards

About the company

Solvd Inc. is a rapidly growing AI-native consulting and technology services firm delivering enterprise transformation across cloud, data, software engineering, and artificial intelligence. Following the acquisition of Tooploox, Solvd now offers end-to-end delivery from strategic advisory to custom AI development.