# Software Engineering – AI Agent

Job Description We are seeking a Senior AI Agent Engineer to build AI applications connecting LLMs with enterprise systems, laboratory software, and scientific instruments. This back-end-focused individual contributor will own architecture, deployment, and operation using Python and TypeScript/Node.js, RAG, and secure agent orchestration. This is an applied software engineering role, not a model research position. Key Responsibilities Design and deliver AI agent applications, back-end services, and APIs using Python and TypeScript/Node.js. Build agent runtimes with prompt and context management, tool calling, persistent state, recovery and human approval. Develop and optimize RAG pipelines, including ingestion, embeddings, vector/hybrid search, reranking, and source-grounded responses. Integrate approved cloud or local model APIs with enterprise or laboratory systems; build reusable MCP clients and servers. Own production quality through testing, CI/CD, access controls, prompt-injection defenses, and monitoring of accuracy, latency, cost, and failures. Lead architecture and delivery decisions, mentor engineers, collaborate across product, science, UX, quality, and support teams, an

- **Id**: 4258368
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/agilent-technologies-software-engineering-ai-agent>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Shanghai, China
- **Countries**: CN
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T14:28:17Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T14:28:17Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3997
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Artificial Intelligence, Laboratory Equipment, Test & Measurement Instruments

## Company

- **Id**: 6171
- **Name**: Agilent Technologies
- **Domain**: agilent.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/agilent-technologies>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 84
- **Open postings**: 52
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.635
- **Repost share**: 0.019
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 34
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Context Engineering** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **Embeddings** — Optional: no
- **Function Calling** — Optional: no
- **Hybrid Search** — Optional: no
- **LangChain** — Optional: no
- **LangGraph** — Optional: no
- **Least Privilege** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **LlamaIndex** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: no
- **Node JS** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **Reranking** — Optional: no
- **Semantic Kernel** — Optional: no
- **Structured Outputs** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **.NET** — Optional: yes
- **Angular** — Optional: yes
- **C#** — Optional: yes
- **Electron** — Optional: yes
- **FastAPI** — Optional: yes
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes
- **LIMS** — Optional: yes
- **Multi-Agent Systems** — Optional: yes
- **OpenTelemetry** — Optional: yes
- **React.js** — Optional: yes
- **Redis** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: All levels; Optional: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T14:28:17Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 34
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T16:35:03Z

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