Lead Software Engineer - Agentic AI

Lead Software Engineer – Agentic AIMinneapolis, MN - 3 days/week hybrid$180,000 - $200,000 base salary + annual bonusTHE COMPANYOur client is a global technology leader building AI-powered products for professionals operating in highly regulated industries. Backed by significant investment in next-generation AI capabilities, the organization is developing enterprise-grade agentic AI solutions that transform how knowledge workers research, analyze information, and automate complex workflows.This is an opportunity to join a high-impact engineering team shaping the future of production AI systems at scale. You'll help define how AI agents are built, evaluated, deployed, monitored, and operated across a rapidly growing product portfolio.RESPONSIBILITIESLead the technical architecture and strategic direction of large-scale AI agent platforms and infrastructure initiatives.Design, build, and scale production AI systems leveraging modern LLMs, agent frameworks, and cloud-native technologies.Own observability, tracing, monitoring, evaluation frameworks, and performance measurement across AI-powered applications.Drive deployment modernization through feature flagging, progressive delivery, release automation, and operational excellence practices.Improve platform reliability, incident response processes, and production readiness across engineering teams.Mentor engineers, lead architecture reviews, influence technical standards, and partner closely with product and engineering leadership.SKILLS AND EXPERIENCERequired8+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience operating at Senior or Lead Engineer level.Proven background building and operating production software systems at scale.Hands-on experience developing AI/LLM-powered products using modern model APIs and agent orchestration frameworks.Strong expertise in distributed systems, backend engineering, API design, and platform development.Deep knowledge of AWS and cloud-native architectures.Experience with observability, monitoring, incident management, and production operations.Strong Python development skills and experience working with PostgreSQL.Demonstrated technical leadership, architectural ownership, and mentoring experience.Experience implementing progressive delivery practices, feature flagging, and release management processes.PreferredExperience with agent runtime infrastructure and enterprise AI platforms.Knowledge of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) architectures and AI evaluation frameworks.Experience integrating frontier language models and multi-agent systems.Background in legal technology, compliance, insurance, tax, accounting, or other regulated industries.Familiarity with AI-native engineering workflows and developer productivity tooling.BENEFITSCompetitive base salary and annual bonus opportunity.Potential equity participation.Hybrid working environment with a high degree of autonomy.Opportunity to shape the future of enterprise AI products.Work alongside experienced engineers, AI specialists, and product leaders.Exposure to large-scale AI platforms and mission-critical production systems.HOW TO APPLYPlease register your interest by sending your CV via the Apply link on this page.KEY TERMSLead Software Engineer | Principal Engineer | AI Engineer | Generative AI | LLM | Agentic AI | AI Agents | RAG | AWS | Python | PostgreSQL | Distributed Systems | Platform Engineering | Observability | DevOps | Reliability Engineering | Feature Flagging | Release Automation | Cloud Architecture | Enterprise Software | Hybrid Working | Technical Leadership | Production AI Systems | Machine Learning Infrastructure