Principal AI Engineer (Autonomous Agent) (AI)

TL;DR

Principal AI Engineer (Autonomous Agent) (AI): Designing and implementing agent-based solutions and data pipelines for generative AI capabilities within a health tech platform with an accent on agent reasoning, function calling, and action coordination. Focus on developing autonomous agents using LLMs, planning algorithms, and ensuring secure integration with existing systems.

Location: Remote (Must be based in the USA)

Salary: $179,000 - $199,000 a year

Company

Leading health tech company providing a platform for long-term and post-acute care serving over 30,000 provider organizations.

What you will do

• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to translate objectives into autonomous agent-based solutions.
• Design and build agent data types and pipelines that enable reasoning, function calling, and action coordination.
• Develop and optimize autonomous agents leveraging LLMs, planning algorithms, and multi-step reasoning approaches.
• Implement comprehensive security mechanisms including authentication, RBAC, audit logging, and compliance monitoring.
• Integrate agents securely with existing systems, APIs, and data sources using secure communication protocols.

Requirements

• Expert level in Python, frameworks, and functional programming principles.
• Experience designing and implementing LLM agent workflows.
• Familiarity with frameworks such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, LangGraph, CrewAI, and AutoGen.
• Must be based in the USA.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree or higher in Artificial Intelligence.
• Experience implementing security at scale including MFA, network security best practices, and compliance monitoring.

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package starting from Day 1.
• Retirement plan matching and flexible paid time off.
• Wellness support programs, parental, and caregiver leaves.
• Continuous development support program.
• Occasional travel required for in-office events in Mississauga and/or Salt Lake City.