Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Robert Half
Palo Alto, United States of America
yesterday
Role details
Contract type
Temporary contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Experience level
Intermediate Compensation
$ 125KJob location
Palo Alto, United States of America
Tech stack
API
Artificial Intelligence
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Cloud Computing
Cursor (Graphical User Interface Elements)
Python
NoSQL
Software Engineering
SQL Databases
GitHub Copilot
Multi-Agent Systems
Backend
Kubernetes
Data Lineage
Docker
Job description
We're hiring an Applied AI Developer to help build practical, production-grade AI solutions that drive real business impact.
In this role, you'll work on:
- Evaluating where AI and agentic systems create real value
- Building tools, platforms, and workflows for modern AI development
- Designing multi-agent systems, orchestration, memory, MCP integrations, and human-in-the-loop workflows
- Creating evaluation frameworks, simulation testing, and regression systems to improve reliability at scale
- Implementing AI governance patterns, including guardrails, auditability, data lineage, and responsible AI practices
- Partnering cross-functionally with engineering, product, security, and platform teams to bring AI use cases into production
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience
- 2+ years building applied AI systems in production
- Strong Python and/or Go skills
- Experience with multi-agent or agent-driven systems
- Hands-on work with tools such as LangGraph, Google ADK, Mastra, Claude Agent SDK, Langfuse, LangSmith, Braintrust, OpenAI, and Anthropic
- Strong backend and systems design fundamentals
- Cloud experience in AWS and/or GCP
- Experience working with enterprise APIs, auth patterns, SQL/NoSQL, and scalable architecture
Nice to have:
- AI eval tooling experience
- MCP server development
- Docker/Kubernetes familiarity
- RAG architecture experience
- Inference cost optimization experience
- Experience using AI coding tools like Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or Windsurf
If you're interested in building scalable, trustworthy AI systems and helping teams adopt modern AI development patterns, let's connect.
Benefits & conditions
Pay range and compensation package, The hourly pay range for this position is $50 to $60 on a W2 basis. As a contract/temporary professional, you are eligible for medical, vision, dental, life, and disability insurance coverage. You may also enroll in our company's 401(k) plan. For additional details on benefits, please visit roberthalf.gobenefits.net