AI Engineer
Description
Job Description & Summary
The opportunity
Build, test and integrate production-grade AI agents and services that execute business tasks reliably within enterprise workflows.
What you will be doing
- Implement agents, prompts, tools, retrieval pipelines and orchestration logic.
- Integrate AI components with enterprise APIs, applications, databases and workflow services.
- Build automated tests and evaluation datasets for functional and non-functional behavior.
- Diagnose model, retrieval, tool-use and integration failures.
- Contribute to secure coding, documentation, peer review and release activities.
- Participate actively in agile ceremonies, demonstrations and backlog refinement.
What we need from you
- 3+ years in software, data or AI engineering.
- Strong Python or comparable programming skills, API development and version control.
- Practical experience with LLM applications, RAG, agents, embeddings and structured outputs.
- Ability to work iteratively with product, architecture, data and user-experience specialists.
Relevant AI technologies and tooling
- Hands-on experience building agents with at least one production-oriented framework such as LangChain and LangGraph, Microsoft Agent Framework or Semantic Kernel, OpenAI Agents SDK, AutoGen, CrewAI, or equivalent.
- Strong Python skills and practical experience with FastAPI or similar API frameworks, Pydantic or comparable schema validation, asynchronous programming, Git and automated testing.
- Practical experience implementing tool calling, structured outputs, agent state and memory, hand-offs, guardrails, retries, human-in-the-loop steps and deterministic workflow nodes.
- Experience implementing RAG pipelines using embeddings, vector or hybrid search, metadata filters, reranking and evaluation datasets.
- Familiarity with MCP, enterprise API integration, queues or events, containerization with Docker and deployment to Kubernetes or managed application platforms.
- Ability to instrument agent executions using tracing and evaluation tools such as LangSmith, MLflow, Langfuse, OpenTelemetry or platform-native equivalents.
Measures of success
- Working features delivered per iteration
- Evaluation results and defect rates
- Integration reliability
- Code review and documentation quality
- Contribution to reusable engineering assets
Key interfaces
- Other members of the AI Transformation & Agentic Systems Practice
- PwC sector, functional, cloud, cyber, risk, Responsible AI and change specialists
- Client business owners, product owners, technology teams and operational users
- Technology alliance and implementation partners where relevant
Contribution to the practice
- Support proposals, client workshops and market development appropriate to seniority.
- Contribute reusable methods, patterns, code, assets and lessons learned.
- Coach colleagues and participate in the capability’s continuous learning agenda.
- Uphold PwC quality, independence, confidentiality and risk-management requirements.
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