Senior AWS Agentic AI Engineer

Seeking an experienced AWS Agentic AI Engineer with 8+ years of AWS Cloud experience and 3+ years of hands-on experience designing and delivering Agentic AI and Generative AI solutions. The ideal candidate will design, develop, and deploy production-ready AI agents, multi-agent systems, and enterprise AI platforms on AWS using Amazon Bedrock, AWS AgentCore, SageMaker, and cloud-native services. This role requires strong expertise in scalable AI architectures, AI governance, security, observability, and enterprise system integration.

• Design and develop Agentic AI solutions supporting reasoning, planning, memory, tool usage, and autonomous task execution.
• Build and deploy Generative AI and LLM-based applications using Amazon Bedrock, AWS AgentCore, SageMaker, and foundation models.
• Develop RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) solutions integrating enterprise knowledge sources, vector databases, and hybrid search.
• Design and implement multi-agent orchestration using LangGraph, LangChain, CrewAI, Bedrock Agents, AWS AgentCore, or similar frameworks.
• Build secure, scalable, and highly available AI platforms using AWS serverless and event-driven services including Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions, EventBridge, and DynamoDB.
• Integrate AI agents with enterprise applications, APIs, databases, MCP servers, and third-party services.
• Implement AI platform engineering, MLOps, CI/CD, model deployment, evaluation, observability, governance, and lifecycle management.
• Optimize AI applications for performance, accuracy, latency, scalability, reliability, and operational cost.
• Implement Responsible AI, security guardrails, prompt protection, governance, compliance, and monitoring for enterprise AI workloads.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, solution architects, data engineers, and application teams to deliver innovative AI solutions.
• Provide technical leadership, architecture guidance, and mentoring across engineering teams.

Required Skills

• Experience: 8+ years in AWS Cloud Engineering/Solution Architecture and 3+ years building Agentic AI or Generative AI solutions.
• AWS Services: Amazon Bedrock, AWS AgentCore, SageMaker, Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions, EventBridge, S3, DynamoDB, OpenSearch, ECS/EKS, IAM, CloudWatch.
• AI Technologies: Agentic AI, LLMs, Multi-Agent Systems, RAG, Prompt Engineering, Vector Databases, AI Evaluation, AI Observability, AI Governance, Responsible AI.
• Frameworks: LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, LlamaIndex, Bedrock Agents, AutoGen, MCP (Model Context Protocol).
• Programming: Strong Python development experience; Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, and SQL are a plus.
• DevOps/MLOps: Terraform, CloudFormation, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes.

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
• AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer
• AWS Certified AI Practitioner
• Experience implementing enterprise-scale AI governance, security, observability, and Responsible AI frameworks.
• Strong background in cloud-native architecture, distributed systems, platform engineering, and enterprise AI solution delivery.

WHAT WE BELIEVE

At Perficient, we promise to challenge, champion, and celebrate our people. You will experience a unique and collaborative culture that values every voice. Join our team, and you’ll become part of something truly special.

We believe in developing a workforce that is as diverse and inclusive as the clients we work with. We’re committed to actively listening, learning, and acting to further advance our organization, our communities, and our future leaders… and we’re not done yet.

Perficient, Inc. proudly provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a protected veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. Perficient, Inc. complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training. Perficient, Inc. expressly prohibits any form of unlawful employee harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or covered veterans. Improper interference with the ability of Perficient, Inc. employees to perform their expected job duties is absolutely not tolerated.

Disability Accommodations:

Perficient is committed to providing a barrier-free employment process with reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability, please contact us.

Applications will be accepted until the position is filled or the posting is removed.

The salary range for this position takes into consideration a variety of factors, including but not limited to skill sets, level of experience, applicable office location, training, licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs. The new hire salary range displays the minimum and maximum salary targets for this position across all US locations, and the range has not been adjusted for any specific state differentials. It is not typical for a candidate to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role, and compensation decisions are dependent on the unique facts and circumstances regarding each candidate. A reasonable estimate of the current salary range for this position is $64,974 to $149,880. Please note that the salary range posted reflects the base salary only and does not include benefits or any potential variable compensation programs. Information regarding the benefits available for this position are in our benefits overview

Disclaimer:  The above statements are not intended to be a complete statement of job content, rather to act as a guide to the essential functions performed by the employee assigned to this classification.  Management retains the discretion to add or change the duties of the position at any time.