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Valitana LLC

AI Agent Engineer

Stamford, CT · On-site

AI Agent Engineer About Valitana Valitana is a rapidly growing FinTech company delivering cutting-edge SaaS solutions to institutional investors. Founded in 2017, our platform provides advanced ...

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$107K - $146K/yr

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Mclean, VA · On-site

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Valitana LLC

AI Agent Engineer

Stamford, CT · On-site

$16 - $21.25/hr

Position Overview Valitana is hiring its first dedicated AI Agent Engineer -- a founding role that will define how artificial intelligence is designed, built, and governed across our platforms. This ...

IntelePeer

AI Agent Engineer

Dania Beach, FL · On-site +1

$102K - $137K/yr

As an AI Agent Engineer at IntelePeer, you will build, configure, test, and deploy the AI voice agents that power patient-facing interactions for healthcare customers. You are a core member of the ...

General Motors

AI Agent Engineer

Warren, MI · On-site +1

We are seeking an AI Agent Engineer to design, build, and operationalize AI-powered agents that enhance employee productivity and decision-making in a complex enterprise environment. The ideal ...

IntelePeer

AI Agent Engineer

Dania Beach, FL

$102K - $137K/yr

As an AI Agent Engineer at IntelePeer, you will build, configure, test, and deploy the AI voice agents that power patient-facing interactions for healthcare customers. You are a core member of the ...

General Motors

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Warren, MI · On-site

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AI Agent Engineer

Austin, TX · On-site +1

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Goosehead

AI Agent Engineer

Westlake, OH

... agent performance. Ifyou'reexcited to apply machine learning, statistics, and data engineering to solve meaningful business problems,we'dlove to hear from you. Who You Are: You are an AI-focused ...

IntelePeer

AI Agent Engineer

Dania, FL · On-site

The AI Agent Engineer role involves building, configuring, testing, and deploying AI voice agents for healthcare customers, ensuring reliable performance and seamless integration with data systems.

LexisNexis

AI Agent Engineer

Alpharetta, GA · On-site

$77K - $103K/yr

The AI Agent Engineer plays a critical role in ensuring AI agents run safely, reliably, and effectively within enterprise environments. This position supports the operational design, execution, and ...

RELX

AI Agent Engineer

Dayton, OH

$76K - $102K/yr

The AI Agent Engineer plays a critical role in ensuring AI agents run safely, reliably, and effectively within enterprise environments. This position supports the operational design, execution, and ...

Lexisnexis Risk Solutions

AI Agent Engineer

Alpharetta, GA · On-site

$77K - $103K/yr

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Lexisnexis Risk Solutions

AI Agent Engineer

Alpharetta, GA · On-site

$77K - $103K/yr

The AI Agent Engineer plays a critical role in ensuring AI agents run safely, reliably, and effectively within enterprise environments. This position supports the operational design, execution, and ...

Liberate

Principal AI Agent Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

Boston or San Francisco (Berkeley), hybrid (2 days/week in office) About the Role As a Principal AI Agent Engineer , you define what "great" looks like for agent engineering at Liberate. You set the ...

RELX

AI Agent Engineer

Alpharetta, GA

$77K - $103K/yr

The AI Agent Engineer plays a critical role in ensuring AI agents run safely, reliably, and effectively within enterprise environments. This position supports the operational design, execution, and ...

RELX Group plc

AI Agent Engineer

Alpharetta, GA · On-site

$77K - $103K/yr

The AI Agent Engineer plays a critical role in ensuring AI agents run safely, reliably, and effectively within enterprise environments. This position supports the operational design, execution, and ...

LexisNexis

AI Agent Engineer

Alpharetta, GA · On-site

$77K - $103K/yr

The AI Agent Engineer plays a critical role in ensuring AI agents run safely, reliably, and effectively within enterprise environments. This position supports the operational design, execution, and ...

Lexisnexis Risk Solutions

AI Agent Engineer

Dayton, OH

$76K - $102K/yr

The AI Agent Engineer plays a critical role in ensuring AI agents run safely, reliably, and effectively within enterprise environments. This position supports the operational design, execution, and ...

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An AI Agent Engineer designs, develops, and optimizes autonomous AI agents that can perceive, reason, and act within digital or real-world environments. They work with machine learning, reinforcement learning, and natural language processing to build intelligent systems that interact dynamically with users and other agents. These engineers often integrate AI models with APIs, databases, and software applications to create functional and scalable AI-driven solutions. Their role bridges software engineering and artificial intelligence, ensuring agents operate efficiently and adaptively in various use cases.

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AI Agent Engineers often encounter challenges such as optimizing agent performance for real-time environments, integrating new algorithms without disrupting existing systems, and ensuring their models can handle diverse and dynamic real-world data. Troubleshooting unexpected behaviors or edge cases and keeping up with rapidly evolving research in artificial intelligence can also be demanding. Working closely with product managers, data scientists, and software developers helps address these challenges, making collaboration and adaptability key components of daily tasks. Overcoming these issues offers valuable learning opportunities and contributes to the growth of robust, innovative AI solutions.

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To excel as an AI Agent Engineer, you need a robust background in computer science, machine learning, and software engineering, often supported by a degree in a STEM field. Familiarity with programming languages like Python, relevant AI frameworks (such as TensorFlow or PyTorch), and experience with cloud platforms are typically expected, along with certifications in AI or data science being advantageous. Strong problem-solving abilities, effective communication, and teamwork skills are essential soft skills for collaborating on complex AI projects. These competencies ensure you can design, implement, and refine intelligent agents that meet real-world challenges and deliver business value.

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AI Agent Engineer

AI Agent Engineer

Valitana LLC

Stamford, CT • On-site

Full-time

Medical, Dental, Vision, Retirement, PTO

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Job description

AI Agent Engineer
About Valitana
Valitana is a rapidly growing FinTech company delivering cutting-edge SaaS solutions to institutional investors. Founded in 2017, our platform provides advanced financial analytics, trade flow insights, and portfolio management tools that empower our clients to make faster and more informed decisions while improving operational efficiency.
Valitana was awarded the 2026 Deal Catalyst CLO Award for Best CLO & Technology Provider - Innovation and serves approximately 100 institutional clients including CLO investors, CLO managers, hedge funds, asset managers, insurance companies, family offices, and broker dealers.
Position Overview
Valitana is hiring its first dedicated AI Agent Engineer - a founding role that will define how artificial intelligence is designed, built, and governed across our platforms. This isn't a seat on an established AI team. It's the opportunity to stand that capability up from the ground floor and set the standards everyone who follows will build on.
You'll work directly with Valitana's product and executive leadership - a team whose backgrounds span CVC Credit Partners, Ellington Management Group, Eagle Point Credit, Trepp, Allvue, Royal Bank of Scotland, and JPMorgan Chase. You'll develop a deep understanding of our platforms, client workflows, and the structured-credit domain, then turn that knowledge into AI-powered solutions: prototyping features, designing agent orchestration patterns, and hardening the security and governance controls that make AI trustworthy in a regulated environment.
This is a high-ownership, product-minded role with unusual proximity to both the product and the people who lead it.
Why This Role Matters
You're founding the function, not inheriting it. As our first AI-focused engineer, you'll make the foundational calls - frameworks, orchestration patterns, evaluation standards, security posture - that shape every AI system Valitana builds from here. The playbook doesn't exist yet. You write it.
Your work ships, and people see it. On a ~60-person team serving roughly 100 institutional clients, there's a short line between a prototype on your screen and a capability in front of a CLO manager or asset manager. Nothing gets lost in the org chart.
The problems are genuinely hard. Structured credit - CLOs, ABS, leveraged loans - is a complex, high-stakes domain. The AI you build here solves real analytical and operational problems for sophisticated clients, not novelty use cases.
Responsibilities
As Valitana's AI Agent Engineer, you will:
  • Prototype and iterate on AI-driven product features in partnership with product leadership across internal tooling, data pipelines, and platform enhancements.
  • Design and build AI agent orchestration infrastructure: dispatch patterns, tool use, structured output parsing, memory management, and multi-agent coordination.
  • Develop and maintain prompt engineering and context engineering systems that drive reliable and auditable agent behavior.
  • Build evaluation pipelines, monitoring, and quality gates for AI agent outputs.
  • Implement security and governance controls for AI systems: prompt injection defense, input/output validation, authority scoping, data boundary enforcement, and auditability.
  • Evaluate and integrate emerging AI tooling and frameworks: MCP servers, retrieval systems, embedding pipelines, and orchestration libraries.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams - product, engineering, and business stakeholders - to bring AI capabilities from prototype to production.
  • Document system architectures, agent contracts, and operational patterns for technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Stay current with advancements in AI agent frameworks, LLM tooling, and security best practices.
What You Bring
Must-haves
  • 3-5+ years of experience in software development, with strong proficiency in Python.
  • Hands-on experience building with LLM APIs (Anthropic, OpenAI, or similar), including tool use, structured outputs, function calling, and multi-turn orchestration.
  • A disciplined, engineering-grade approach to prompt engineering and context engineering.
  • Experience with multi-agent systems, agent orchestration frameworks, or AI pipeline design.
  • A security-first mindset with awareness of LLM-specific risks: prompt injection, data leakage, and authority boundary enforcement.
  • Demonstrated ability to rapidly prototype and iterate across a range of AI-powered solutions.
  • Comfort working across prototyping (Python, markdown-driven systems) and production (C#, Angular, SQL Server) environments.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills. Documenting agent architectures and system designs is a core part of this role.
  • Self-direction and the ability to manage multiple concurrent workstreams in a fast-paced environment.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field.

Bonus points
  • Experience or familiarity with financial products, particularly structured credit (CLOs, ABS, leveraged loans).
What We Offer
Base salary range for this role is $140,000-$180,000. Valitana offers a competitive compensation package including base salary and an annual performance bonus. Employees receive a comprehensive benefits package that includes an employer-matched retirement plan, healthcare with medical, dental, vision, and telemedicine, and PTO.
Employees in this role will work in the office Monday through Wednesday with the flexibility to work remotely Thursday and Friday.
Valitana is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

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