Agentic Engineer [Zeal]

The role

You will design and implement scalable, production-ready agentic AI solutions for Fortune 1000 clients. This involves building multi-step agent systems, managing cloud infrastructure, and ensuring system reliability through evaluation frameworks and observability.

What you will do

• Work with clients to translate business problems into agentic AI solutions.
• Design and implement multi-step agent systems including orchestration and multi-agent coordination.
• Build integrations between agents and enterprise systems using APIs and MCP servers.
• Design evaluation frameworks, guardrails, and human-in-the-loop workflows.
• Instrument agent systems for traceability and observability.
• Design and maintain state and memory across long-running workflows.
• Build and deploy AI solutions using Azure or AWS cloud platforms.
• Apply software engineering practices using Python, Java, containers, and CI/CD.
• Work with client engineering and security teams through architecture and security reviews.
• Evaluate when agentic architectures or deterministic approaches are most appropriate.

Required qualifications

• Hands-on experience designing and shipping production agent systems.
• Experience evaluating agent behavior and building evaluation harnesses or guardrails.
• Deep hands-on experience with either Azure or AWS and related AI and infrastructure services.
• Strong proficiency in Python or Java.
• Experience with API design, containers, automated testing, source control, and CI/CD.
• Machine learning knowledge to determine appropriate modeling approaches.
• Experience delivering software within large organizations including security reviews and compliance.
• Experience designing systems for traceability, state, memory, and observability.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with MCP and emerging tool-interoperability standards
• Evaluation frameworks such as RAGAS
• Fine-tuning
• Model distillation or optimization
• Experience in highly regulated industries such as financial services, insurance, healthcare, or manufacturing

Before you apply

• Include a short note about yourself, a summary of work experience, and a link to public profiles like GitHub or LinkedIn.
• Hiring process may include a preliminary phone interview, video interviews, and a short take-home exercise.

About the company

Zeal is an AI-enabled software consultancy for Fortune 1000 companies and is part of Livefront. They are a values-driven technology company focused on helping clients improve business through technology.