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This is a senior individual contributor assignment for a hands-on systems engineer who can move between architecture, production code, platform services, and direct engagement with business users.\nThe ideal candidate brings broad experience across AI, distributed systems, backend engineering, data, product delivery, and enterprise integration. This person will provide end-to-end technical ownership for secure multi-agent systems and collaborative AI work environments where business users and agents can plan, reason, use tools, share context, and complete complex advertising and media workflows.\nHere's what you'll do:\nMulti-Agent System Architecture & Development\nDesign and build production multi-agent systems, including planners, coordinators, specialist agents, reviewers, human approval points, shared state, memory, and recovery paths. \nDefine orchestration patterns for agent delegation, task decomposition, consensus, tool selection, and deterministic workflow control. \nWrite production code and reference implementations, not just architecture diagrams, prototypes, or prompt specifications. \nEvaluate model, framework, and runtime tradeoffs while keeping solutions modular and avoiding unnecessary vendor lock-in. \nCollaborative AI Work Environments\nBuild collaborative workspaces where business users and multiple agents can jointly investigate, plan, create, review, and execute work. \nDesign shared-context patterns such as workspaces, case files, task state, artifacts, approvals, audit history, and role-aware memory. \nCreate experiences that make agent evidence, tool activity, decisions, and handoffs understandable to business users. \nEnable reusable skills and workflows across campaign planning, operations, analytics, incident response, and engineering use cases. \nBackend Services, Tools & Enterprise Integration\nDesign and develop backend services, APIs, event-driven workflows, tool registries, and integration services that connect agents to enterprise capabilities. \nBuild governed tool interfaces using MCP-style patterns, strong schemas, identity propagation, authorization, validation, rate limits, and auditability. \nIntegrate agent systems with advertising platforms, data services, Snowflake, operational systems, content repositories, and third-party APIs. \nApply distributed-systems practices for reliability, idempotency, retries, timeouts, fallbacks, concurrency, and state management. \nContext Engineering for Business Users\nDesign context strategies combining user intent, role, workflow state, enterprise knowledge, structured data, tool outputs, conversation history, and policy constraints. \nBuild retrieval and context pipelines that deliver the right information to the right agent at the right step while controlling noise, latency, cost, and sensitive data exposure. \nDevelop reusable instruction, skill, memory, and context templates for specific business personas and workflows. \nPartner directly with business users to understand work, encode domain knowledge, and improve agent behavior through feedback and evaluation. \nProduction Readiness, Evaluation & Governance\nEstablish evaluation strategies for task success, groundedness, tool correctness, trajectory quality, safety, latency, reliability, and cost. \nImplement observability across agent steps, model calls, context assembly, tool activity, decisions, and business outcomes. \nDesign guardrails for unsafe actions, prompt injection, data leakage, runaway loops, failed tools, and low-confidence decisions. \nDrive production readiness through automated testing, CI/CD, release controls, incident response, runbooks, and continuous improvement. \nTechnical Leadership & Forward Deployment\nWork directly with Product, Ad Sales, Operations, Data, and Engineering teams to turn ambiguous problems into deployable agentic solutions. \nLead architecture and code reviews, mentor engineers, establish reusable standards, and manage cross-system dependencies and risks. \nBalance rapid experimentation with maintainability, security, governance, and measurable business value. \nHere's what you'll need:\nExperience & Education\nBachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field. \n5 - 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