Senior AI Engineer (Agentic Systems)

Job#: 3039433

Job Description:

Senior AI Engineer (Agentic Systems)

Location: Charlotte, North Carolina (On-site)

Employment Type: Contract

Contract Duration: 12 Months

 

Role Overview

The Senior AI Engineer will design and deliver enterprise-grade AI agent solutions that automate document ingestion, orchestrate workflows, and augment decision-making across risk, finance, and governance domains. This role focuses on leveraging and integrating existing LLM platforms to build scalable, production-ready agent systems. The position requires strong system design, agent orchestration, and pragmatic application of AI to drive measurable operational efficiency.

 

Key Responsibilities
  • Design and deliver enterprise-grade AI agent solutions for automation and decision augmentation.
  • Leverage and integrate existing LLM platforms to build scalable, production-ready agent systems.
  • Embed AI into engineering and product delivery workflows without developing foundational models.
  • Apply strong system design and agent orchestration to drive operational efficiency.
  • Design end-to-end AI workflows, including prompting, retrieval, tool integration, and output validation.
  • Utilize AI-assisted development tooling to accelerate engineering productivity and solution design.
  • Define and measure outcomes such as efficiency gains, cost reduction, and adoption metrics.
  • Engage with stakeholders to translate business problems into pragmatic AI solutions.
Required Qualifications

Experience:

  • 5–8+ years of experience in software engineering, AI solution engineering, or applied data workflows.
  • Proven experience building AI agents or agentic workflows using existing LLMs (task orchestration, tool use, memory, workflow chaining).
  • Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tooling (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Copilot Studio, or equivalent).
  • Experience with cloud-native architectures and integration into enterprise environments and tooling.

Technical Skills:

  • Strong Python engineering skills and experience building production-grade services and APIs.
  • Proficiency in prompt engineering, grounding, and guardrails to ensure reliability and control.
  • Strong understanding of RAG patterns, document ingestion, and unstructured data processing.
  • Knowledge of Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning principles.
  • Experience with Teradata.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience designing multi-agent or orchestrated agent systems for enterprise workflows.
  • Experience building interactive copilots or embedded AI assistants within engineering or operational tools.
  • Familiarity with agent evaluation techniques, human-in-the-loop validation, and iterative improvement loops.
  • Experience applying AI to workflow automation, operational efficiency, or service delivery transformation.
  • Knowledge of Responsible AI, governance, and enterprise risk considerations.
  • Track record of driving AI adoption across engineering or product organizations.
  • Experience operating in product-centric, outcome-driven delivery models.

Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRateds Best of Staffing® in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work® in the United Kingdom and Mexico.

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Everforth Apex Benefits Overview: Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our ‘Welcome Packet’ as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.

Everforth Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Everforth Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law.

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Employee Type:
Contract

Location:
Charlotte, NC, US

Job Type:

Date Posted:
June 22, 2026

Pay Range:
$65 - $70 per hour

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