# Sr Specialist Software Engineering (AI Forward Deployed Engineer)

Experience 8+ years of relevant software engineering, cloud engineering, AI/ML engineering, platform engineering, or solution engineering experience, including hands-on delivery of production-grade Generative AI, RAG, or Agentic AI systems Key Responsibilities Work directly with business and technical stakeholders to identify high-value AI use cases and convert ambiguous requirements into production-ready solutions. Design and build Generative AI, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Advanced RAG, and Agentic AI applications. Engineer retrieval pipelines covering document ingestion, parsing, chunking, metadata enrichment, embeddings, indexing, hybrid retrieval, reranking, grounding, and response generation. Build single-agent and multi-agent systems with planning, reasoning, tool calling, workflow orchestration, state management, memory, retries, exception handling, and human-in-the-loop approvals. Develop and integrate Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and clients to securely connect AI agents with enterprise tools, APIs, data sources, and workflows. Build reusable tools, functions, plugins, APIs, and connectors for structured and controlled agent execution. Develop AI-enabled

- **Id**: 4017939
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/att-sr-specialist-software-engineering-ai-forward-deployed-engineer-2>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Hyderabad, India
- **Countries**: IN
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T13:46:28Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T00:13:03Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 9048
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Artificial Intelligence, Mobile Networks, Broadband

## Company

- **Id**: 1753140
- **Name**: AT&T
- **Domain**: att.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/att-com>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Radancy

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 95
- **Open postings**: 126
- **Ghost share**: 0.016
- **Stale share**: 0.111
- **Repost share**: 0.063
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 26
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **AutoGen** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **Azure DevOps** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Context Engineering** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **Embeddings** — Optional: no
- **FastAPI** — Optional: no
- **Flask** — Optional: no
- **Function Calling** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: no
- **GitHub** — Optional: no
- **GitHub Actions** — Optional: no
- **Hallucination** — Optional: no
- **Human-in-the-Loop** — Optional: no
- **Hybrid Search** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **LangChain** — Optional: no
- **LangGraph** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **LLM Guardrails** — Optional: no
- **LLMOps** — Optional: no
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: no
- **Multi-Agent Systems** — Optional: no
- **OCR** — Optional: no
- **OpenAI** — Optional: no
- **OWASP Top 10** — Optional: no
- **pgvector** — Optional: no
- **Pinecone** — Optional: no
- **Platform Engineering** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Prompt Engineering** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Qdrant** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **Redis** — Optional: no
- **Reranking** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **Semantic Kernel** — Optional: no
- **Semantic Search** — Optional: no
- **Structured Outputs** — Optional: no
- **Weaviate** — Optional: no
- **Azure Cosmos DB** — Optional: yes
- **Bicep** — Optional: yes
- **Copilot** — Optional: yes
- **Fine-tuning** — Optional: yes
- **GraphRAG** — Optional: yes
- **Knowledge Distillation** — Optional: yes
- **Knowledge Graph** — Optional: yes
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## Trust

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

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: phd
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T13:46:28Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 26
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T01:13:55Z

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