Staff AI Engineer

Velocity Talent is hiring a Staff AI Engineer for Robots & Pencils, an applied AI engineering firm that builds and ships AI coworkers into enterprise business systems. This is a senior backend and AI platform role in a mature production environment with real enterprise users. Type: full time, one opening, start ASAP.

Compensation

up to $230,000. Location: fully remote, US only, with about 20% travel (an in person interview and a one week onboarding, expenses covered). Work authorization: must be authorized to work in the US without sponsorship. The one thing we screen for first You need hands on experience with AWS Bedrock Agent. Core, or a multi agent system you actually deployed to AWS: several coordinating agents running on real AWS infrastructure.

Lang. Graph, CrewAI, Auto. Gen, Strands or a custom framework all count, as long as it shipped to AWS. Single agent chatbots, RAG only projects and notebook work don't meet this bar.

What you'll do

Build and maintain backend services and APIs in Python and Node.js Engineer production AI features: LLM function and tool calling, multi agent orchestration, vector search on Open. Search, RAG and streaming responses Design AWS native serverless systems with Lambda, DynamoDB single table design, S3, SQS, Event. Bridge and Step Functions Support workflow orchestration and event driven processes, and contribute to full stack integration Improve reliability, troubleshoot production systems and support releases Review code, mentor engineers and own features end to end What you'll need 6+ years of professional software engineering Strong Python and Node.

js Hands on LLM tool calling, prompt engineering, multi agent orchestration, embeddings, vector databases, streaming responses and RAG AWS experience across Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, SQS, Event. Bridge and Step Functions API and backend design, SQL and NoSQL databases, Docker, unit testing and sound test strategy Nice to have Langfuse, synthetic AI testing, token cost optimization and reasoning effort tuning Step Functions for AI workflows Apply with your resume.

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