Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Colossus Technologies Group is partnering with an early-stage AI security startup to hire a Senior AI Engineer to help build the next generation of production AI agents. The role involves designing, building, and deploying production AI agents using Python, and collaborating with a technical team to develop reliable AI systems that address complex security challenges.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and deploy production AI agents using Python and modern AI frameworks
- Build agentic workflows capable of reasoning, tool use, orchestration, and autonomous decision-making
- Develop evaluation frameworks to measure agent performance, identify failure modes, and improve reliability
- Build backend services and APIs that power AI systems at scale
- Improve observability, testing, and guardrails for production AI applications
- Collaborate with experienced engineers to define the architecture of AI-first products from the ground up
- Contribute across the stack while helping shape the technical direction of the platform
Skills
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Expert-level Python development skills
- Strong Computer Science fundamentals, including algorithms, distributed systems, and software design
- Experience building production AI applications, AI agents, or agentic workflows
- Experience with LLM orchestration, tool calling, MCP, RAG, or modern AI frameworks
- Experience evaluating AI systems and improving agent performance, reliability, and resilience
- Experience building scalable backend services and APIs
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced startup where engineers own features from design through production
- Machine Learning or Data Science background with strong software engineering experience
- Experience building or evaluating ML models
- Experience with vector databases, model evaluation, prompt engineering, or AI observability
- Experience building AI systems in regulated or security-focused environments
Benefits
- Meaningful equity
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