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Posted on 2026/10/18

Lead / Principal Agentic AI Engineer - W2

Cyma Systems Inc

Dallas, TX, United States

Contractor

Lead / Principal Agentic AI Engineer (Onsite Technical Lead) US Onsite (preferred - Phoenix, AZ, Johnson, RI, Dallas) need on w2

  • 8–10 years software engineering, with 3+ years architecting and shipping LLM / GenAI / agentic systems in production.
  • Deep RAG experience: you've designed retrieval systems at scale chunking and indexing strategy, embedding-model selection, hybrid/semantic retrieval, re-ranking, evaluation and know the failure modes cold.
  • MCP & connector experience: proven design of tool-calling / connector frameworks; able to define a reusable, config-driven onboarding pattern for heterogeneous internal and external sources.
  • Multi-agent orchestration: expert with LangGraph / Google ADK / equivalent; you can reason about agent topology, state, retries, determinism, and where NOT to use an agent.
  • Strong Python + FastAPI for production services; solid grasp of Java/Spring Boot and PostgreSQL to lead integration across a polyglot stack.
  • LLM evaluation, guardrails, prompt strategy, and hallucination control as first-class engineering disciplines not afterthoughts.
  • Demonstrated technical leadership: led engineering pods, set standards, mentored seniors, and leading the client/stakeholder relationship.
  • Experience delivering in regulated / security-constrained environments: audit, PII, SSO/RBAC, model governance.
  • Excellent executive-level communication you'll be the technical voice in the room with the client.

Preferred skills

  • ML modeling depth: fine-tuning / adapter training, embedding-model evaluation and selection, classical ML for classification and confidence scoring, and building rigorous evaluation harnesses.
  • Self-hosted / on-prem LLM serving experience (inference optimization, GPU-aware deployment, PII-safe inference).
  • Document-AI / IDP depth: layout-aware extraction, OCR pipelines, footnote/table extraction from complex forms.
  • OpenShift / Kubernetes architecture, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, and enterprise secrets management (HashiCorp Vault / CyberArk).
  • Vector database architecture and tuning at scale (Qdrant, pgvector).
  • Prior onsite delivery / client-lead experience in the US