Core Applied AI Engineer Agentic AI & Security
Company: BIRDSVUE LLC
Location: United States (Remote)
Salary: $65 an hour
Type: Full-time
Remote: Yes
Posted: 2026-09-18
About this role
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Employee discounts
# Core Applied AI Engineer – Agentic AI & Security (W2 POSITION ONLY, NO C2C OR 1099)
Introduction
Our client is seeking a Core Applied AI Engineer to architect and deploy end-to-end agentic workflows that automate critical business processes. The ideal candidate pairs deep expertise in core applied AI—including reasoning, orchestration, context engineering, and harness engineering—with rigorous security engineering. This role moves far beyond traditional RAG or conversational chatbots. You will build secure, autonomous agents capable of reasoning, decision-making, API/tool invocation, and safe integration within complex enterprise environments.
Responsibilities
Agentic Architecture & Orchestration
- End-to-End Workflow Automation: Design and deploy AI agents that execute complex business processes across enterprise APIs, databases, SaaS platforms, and MCP/tool servers.
- Reliability & Optimization: Utilize context engineering and harness engineering to optimize agent performance, control, observability, and traceability.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Product, Data, Platform, and Security teams to embed AI capabilities seamlessly into enterprise infrastructure.
Agentic Security & Governance
- Security Controls & Guardrails: Design robust guardrails governing agent tool invocation, API access, data retrieval, and autonomous decision-making.
- Threat Mitigation: Protect systems against agent-specific vulnerabilities, including direct/indirect prompt injection, context poisoning, tool abuse, privilege escalation, and data exfiltration.
- Identity & Access Management: Implement least-privilege access models, service identities, OAuth/OIDC, RBAC/ABAC, and secure secrets management.
- Human-in-the-Loop: Establish automated and manual checkpoints requiring approval where business or security risk thresholds demand it.
Observability, Testing & Evaluation
- Telemetry & Auditing: Implement tracin...