# Agentic AI Engineer

**Company:** [Benchling](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/benchling)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** ML Engineering
**Salary:** $176k – $265k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Python, TypeScript, Go, LangChain, Crewai, OpenAI API, Claude API, Pgvector, Pinecone, Langsmith, RAG, Vector Databases, Llm Observability, Agentic Frameworks, Mcp
**Posted:** 2026-05-22

> Founding engineer owning architecture and delivery of enterprise agentic AI systems. Hands-on builder of LLM orchestration, tool integrations, memory, evaluation, and production-grade infrastructure.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Define foundational architecture for enterprise agentic AI: orchestration, agent frameworks, tool integrations (MCP), memory/state management, evaluation, observability
- Make documented build vs. buy decisions across the stack
- Write production code at least half the time; stand up CI/CD, testing, evaluation, and deployment infrastructure for agentic systems
- Graduate prototypes into hardened, production-grade systems under a "you build it, you run it" model
- Design for multi-tenant isolation, secrets management, audit logging, payload encryption, RBAC, and human-in-the-loop controls
- Partner with Security Engineering on threat modeling for prompt injection, tool misuse, data exfiltration
- Coach power users and departmental teams on production patterns; develop criteria for graduating prototypes to enterprise systems
- Build internal developer experience: templates, SDKs, sandboxes for safe external builder use
- Partner with Data, Analytics & Systems on source-of-truth datasets and pipelines
- Set bar for code quality, testing/evaluation, documentation, on-call practices
- Drive technical hiring and mentor engineers

## Requirements
- 7+ years professional software engineering experience building production systems with strong systems design
- Hands-on experience building production LLM/agentic systems: orchestration, tool use, memory/state management, evaluation, observability
- Production experience with at least two of: Python, TypeScript/Node.js, Go
- Hands-on expertise with LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic), agentic frameworks (LangChain, CrewAI), RAG over business content, vector databases (pgvector, Pinecone), workflow automation (n8n, Langflow), LLM observability (LangSmith, Arize)
- Track record building a platform/function/product area from zero to one and scaling it
- Experience in regulated or security-sensitive environments; grasp of encryption, access controls, audit logging, secrets management
- Comfort exercising technical leadership independent of positional authority
- Product-first mindset; strong communication with technical and non-technical audiences

## Nice to Have
- Background in enterprise SaaS, life sciences, or biotech
- Familiarity with LangGraph, MCP, agent SDKs from model providers
- Experience with async orchestration (Temporal, Prefect, Airflow) for long-running/agentic workflows
- Familiarity with SOC 2, HIPAA, or GxP compliance

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