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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # AI Engineer - **Company:** PTR Global - **Location:** Concord, United States - **Experience:** Experienced - **Salary:** $166,400.0 - $176,800.0 - **Contract:** Temporary to permanent - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Audit Trail, Profiling, Encodings, Databases, Information Engineering, Distributed Systems, Fault Tolerance, Graph Database, Python (Programming Language), MongoDB, Multiprocessing, Performance Tuning, Query Optimization, Recommender Systems, Search Technologies, Service Development Studio, Software Engineering, SQL Databases, Data Streaming, Workflow Management Systems, Feature Engineering, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Large Language Models, Multi-Agent Systems, Prompt Engineering, Model Validation, Caching, Generative AI, Backend, Fastapi, Event Driven Architecture, AI Platforms, Low Latency, Apache Kafka, Virtual Agents, Api Design, Restful APIs, Microservices - **Published:** August 22, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/5bebbdcb-c918-4fe9-b66f-20f236c80c9d ## About the Role * Strong backend Python developer with experience building and supporting microservices-based applications. * Experience designing and consuming APIs. * Familiarity with Large Language Models (LLMs), Agentic AI frameworks, and AI orchestration concepts. * Experience working with MongoDB and vector databases. * Financial services experience is not required. Required Experience: * Python: 5+ years * Microservices: 5+ years * API Development/Integration: 5+ years * MongoDB: 5+ years * Agentic AI: 2+ years preferred ## Description * Resources will primarily be building, enhancing, and supporting AI agents rather than spending significant time in meetings. * Daily collaboration occurs through team standups and close interaction with developers and architects. * Candidates should be comfortable communicating technical needs and blockers, though executive-facing responsibilities are minimal., * Greenfield development environment with significant technical ownership. * Collaborative, supportive, and highly engaged team culture. * Potential for extension and conversion opportunities. Core Technical Skills: * Python software engineering * REST API development * Microservices architecture * Distributed systems design * Backend service development * FastAPI * AsyncIO * Multiprocessing * Performance tuning and profiling * Caching strategies * Database/query optimization * Event-driven architecture * High-availability and fault-tolerant system design * Generative AI / LLM Skills * Generative AI application development * Large Language Models * Agentic AI systems * Multi-agent workflow design * Retrieval-Augmented Generation * Hybrid RAG architectures * Knowledge graph-enhanced RAG * Prompt engineering * Prompt orchestration * Tool calling * LLM routing and fallback strategies * Fine-tuning evaluation * Model evaluation frameworks * Hallucination detection * Human-in-the-loop validation * Text-to-SQL using LLMs * Schema-aware prompting * Embeddings and semantic search * AI Platform & Architecture Skills * Enterprise AI platform architecture * Scalable AI workflow design * AI governance standards * AI guardrails implementation * Responsible AI controls * PII redaction * Audit logging * Model usage monitoring * Latency, cost, and accuracy optimization * AI/ML feature engineering * Recommendation systems * Feedback loops for model improvement * Data Engineering Skills * Kafka * Streaming data pipelines * Databases & Vector Search * Vector database architecture * Semantic retrieval * Re-ranking * Embedding pipelines Pay Range: $80 - $85, Purchase any product, service, or gift cards from us or for us as part of an application, interview, or selection process. 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