AI Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 12, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 11, 2026.
About the Role
You will design and ship AI-native products, from agentic workflow design through production operation. This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who can own a system end to end and bring real production discipline to agentic AI work.
What we expect
- 5+ years of experience delivering production software end to end: backend, API, frontend, deployment, and operations.
- Depth in at least one ecosystem (.NET, TypeScript, Python, or JVM) and a track record of becoming productive in another. We are deliberately stack-agnostic, but not looking for a generalist without depth.
- Proven design of agentic workflows: decomposing a task into steps an agent can complete reliably, deciding what belongs in the model versus deterministic code, and choosing between a single agent, a graph, and a plain pipeline.
- Practical command of the building blocks: tool and function calling, MCP-based integrations, orchestration frameworks (LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, Microsoft Agent Framework, or equivalent), state and memory across steps, and retrieval where it earns its place.
- Designs agents that fail safely: no duplicated side effects when a call is retried, hard limits on steps and spend, confirmation before irreversible actions, and validation between steps so one bad result does not propagate through the run.
- Measures agent quality against a repeatable set of test cases rather than impressions, and traces every step of a run to find where it went wrong.
- Fluency in AI-assisted development with disciplined review of generated code. You read the full diff, question unnecessary abstractions, and remove what does not belong.
- Ownership of the practices that make rapid delivery safe: automated tests, type safety, CI gates, small reviewable pull requests, and a clear definition of done.
- Visible influence on team quality through code review, technical conventions, and mentoring.
Education:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field would be of great value, but if you’re passionate and have the experience that backs up your abilities, for us, talent outweighs degree every time.
AP Perks:
- Opportunity to work with people who are at the top of their field
- Career growth
- Collaborative learning environment
- Working in teams with global IT experts
- Working on enterprise-level applications
- Great culture and environment
- Competitive remuneration package. We reward excellence
- Professional training
About Authority Partners:
Authority Partners is a leading global IT services company with over 28 years of experience, serving clients within the financial, healthcare, insurance, mortgage, and technology sectors among many others. We are committed to building relationships with IT professionals who possess integrity, dedication, teamwork, and the desire to learn and grow with us. We specialize in placement for a long-term contract and permanent opportunities and helping our consultants achieve their career success.
Authority Partners is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing a workplace that is free from all types of discrimination, as well as from abusive or offensive behavior and harassment.