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    Senior Agentic AI / AI Systems Engineer

    Full-time
    India
    Aug 20, 2026
    Remote
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    Overview

    Item.com is seeking a senior hands-on engineer to lead the design and operation of reliable agentic and multi-agent AI systems. This role combines deep implementation ability with technical leadership, systems judgment, and production accountability. Contract position. Must work U.S. PST hours.

    Key Responsibilities

    • Deliver resilient AI systems that support mission-critical business work.
    • Create reusable patterns for evaluation, reliability, observability, governance, and cost control.
    • Raise the technical bar through architecture, code reviews, mentoring, and incident learning.
    • Lead design and implementation of agentic services and multi-agent workflows across models, tools, data sources, and human workflows.
    • Define platform patterns for tool contracts, state, orchestration, evaluation, tracing, guardrails, and release management.

    Pay and Benefits

    Compensation

    $3k - $4k

    Requirements

    • Deep production software/systems engineering experience and demonstrated hands-on AI systems ownership.
    • Evidence of operating distributed, AI/ML, or agentic systems at meaningful scale.
    • Experience with evaluation pipelines, observability/tracing, security controls, deployment automation, and incident management.
    • Ability to lead technical decisions without relying solely on a framework or vendor abstraction.
    • Strong communication skills for technical and non-technical stakeholders.

    Skills

    Own complex AI systems beyond a single agent: their reliability, evolution, team practices, production economics, and cross-functional adoption.

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