{"id":1482698,"url":"https://alion.io/job/ryan-ai-engineer","title":"AI Engineer","company":{"id":1853398,"name":"Ryan","domain":"ryan.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/ryan-com","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":null},"role":"AI/ML","role_family":"AI/ML","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Dallas, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":120000,"max_usd":227000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":817},"experience_years_min":6,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":".NET","optional":false},{"name":"Agentic Workflows","optional":false},{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"AutoGen","optional":false},{"name":"Azure","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"CrewAI","optional":false},{"name":"LangChain","optional":false},{"name":"LangGraph","optional":false},{"name":"OpenAI Agents SDK","optional":false},{"name":"Semantic Kernel","optional":false},{"name":"Tool Use","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":true},{"name":"C#","optional":true},{"name":"Docker","optional":true},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":true},{"name":"LLM","optional":true},{"name":"RAG","optional":true},{"name":"Redis","optional":true},{"name":"SQL","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-29T21:41:18Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-29","last_verified_at":"2026-09-29T11:47:42Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"Why Ryan?\nHybrid Work Options\n\nAward-Winning Culture\n\nGenerous Personal Time Off (PTO) Benefits\n\n14-Weeks of 100% Paid Leave for New Parents (Adoption Included)\n\nMonthly Gym Membership Reimbursement OR Gym Equipment Reimbursement\n\nBenefits Eligibility Effective Day One\n\n401K with Employer Match\n\nTuition Reimbursement After One Year of Service\n\nFertility Assistance Program\n\nFour-Week Company-Paid Sabbatical Eligibility After Five Years of Service\n\nAs a Senior Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in the design, development, and delivery of robust, scalable, and secure AI-driven software systems. You’ll be expected to own complex components, lead critical feature implementation, and drive engineering best practices within your squad. This role bridges the execution gap between high-level design and detailed implementation, with active participation in solutioning, system integration, evaluation, and continuous improvement initiatives.You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, contribute to architectural discussions, and ensure that AI solutions align with user needs, business goals, safety expectations, and performance constraints. This role demands hands-on engineering capabilities, a high degree of ownership, and the ability to work independently as well as within a team.\nKey Responsibilities\nSoftware Design and Development\nTranslate business needs into agentic workflows and production-ready full-stack components (APIs, services, UIs).\nDesign and document functional and technical specifications for mid-to-large components.\nImplement agent orchestration, tool-use, and integrations with strong focus on correctness, safety, and reliability.\nImplement and review high-quality code using modern software development practices.\nConduct design and code reviews with an emphasis on performance, scalability, and maintainability.\nApplications Integration & Middleware\nIntegrate enterprise applications and services using APIs and middleware solutions.\nConduct feasibility assessments and support application interoperability testing.\nTroubleshoot integration issues and support optimization of connected systems.\nCloud, DevOps & Configuration\nDevelop and participate in deploying software in Azure cloud environments.\nConfigure platform-specific deployment scripts and troubleshoot build-release issues.\nParticipate in infrastructure-as-code practices and cloud performance tuning.\nTesting & Automation\nDefine evaluation strategies for agent behavior: golden datasets, regression suites, scenario coverage, and reliability checks.\nInstrument and monitor agent behavior (tool-call traces, latency/cost metrics, failure modes) and drive iterative improvements.\nDesign and execute complex unit, integration, and automated test cases.\nAnalyze and resolve test failures, propose code fixes, and contribute to automation frameworks.\nCollaborate with QA and DevOps teams to drive CI/CD pipeline enhancements.\nArchitecture Support\nAssist in translating high-level architecture into low-level designs.\nDevelop and maintain design artifacts under the guidance of architects and staff engineers.\nUnderstand existing system architecture and communicate trade-offs during design sessions.\nCollaboration & Execution\nWork closely with product managers, UX designers, and business stakeholders.\nContribute to project planning and estimation for features and enhancements.\nLead technical discussions, mentor junior engineers, and support knowledge sharing.\nRequired Competencies\nTechnical Strength\nDeep understanding of core programming concepts, system design principles, and application performance optimization\nHands-on experience building agentic systems with LLMs (tool-use, orchestration, multi-step flows, verification/validation patterns) and MCPs.\nProficient in one or more agentic frameworks (LangChain/LangGraph, OpenAI Agents SDK, Microsoft Semantic Kernel, Microsoft AutoGen, CrewAI, etc.)\nProficient in writing clean, efficient, and maintainable code across at least one modern full stack\nExperience using frameworks in .NET ecosystem with ReactJS is a 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changing priorities with discipline\nContinuous Improvement\nActively contributes to improving team processes, standards, and tooling\nStay updated on new technologies and apply relevant practices where appropriate\nSeeks feedback and adapts to strengthen performance and technical acumen\nWhat You Bring\n6-9 years of software engineering experience, with a strong track record of building production-grade systems\nDemonstrated experience shipping AI/LLM-powered features (agents/agentic-frameworks, RAG, tool-calling, workflow automation) into real user workflows.\nProficiency in at least one modern full-stack, data-stores (SQL/NoSQL), Redis, Containerization, Kubernetes, Azure Cloud-Native Services\nStrong understanding of data structures, design patterns, and system integration techniques\nHands-on experience with CI/CD, containers (Docker), and cloud services (AWS/Azure)\nDemonstrated ability to design, test, and debug complex systems in a collaborative setting\nAttention to details 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