Lead Engineer, Agentic AI Engineering
Live Nation Entertainment2 months ago
Beverly Hills, CA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$176k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the enterprise agentic AI platform, including its engineering standards, reusable templates, runtime reliability, governance, cybersecurity controls, and lifecycle management.
- Design, develop, and operate production AI agents, multi-agent orchestration patterns, MCP servers, tool integrations, secure API gateways, RAG pipelines, and context engineering frameworks.
- Build agent evaluation, versioning, promotion, monitoring, regression, and retirement processes, including offline evaluation sets and online quality monitoring.
- Embed least-privilege identity, tool scoping, policy enforcement, guardrails, and prompt-injection and tool-abuse defenses into agent systems.
- Own AI platform FinOps, including cost visibility, token and compute optimization, capacity planning, and chargeback or showback reporting.
- Define production support models, runbooks, escalation paths, service-level objectives, and service-level agreements; participate in on-call and incident response.
- Champion infrastructure and delivery automation using Terraform, GitHub, GitHub Actions, and Python.
- Hire, onboard, and mentor a small engineering team and collaborate with Data Engineering, Cybersecurity, Architecture, and Operations teams.
Requirements
- At least 10 years of software or platform engineering experience shipping and operating production systems at scale.
- At least 2 years of hands-on experience building LLM-based applications, including at least one agentic system operating in production.
- Deep proficiency in Python, Terraform, and modern CI/CD practices, with GitHub Actions preferred.
- Experience with multi-model foundation-model estates and model selection based on cost and quality trade-offs is preferred.
- Demonstrated cloud cost management or FinOps experience for AI or data workloads.
- Experience hiring, mentoring, and leading small engineering teams.
- Experience with evaluation-driven development, including offline evaluation sets, rubric and LLM-as-judge scoring, CI regression gates, and online production-agent quality monitoring.
- Practical experience securing LLM and agent systems through identity controls, least-privilege tool access, guardrails, and prompt-injection and tool-abuse mitigation.
- Experience operating on the Databricks lakehouse platform is preferred.
- Live entertainment, ticketing, consumer e-commerce, open-source agent framework, or MCP ecosystem experience is preferred.
- Ability to explain complex agentic architectures to technical and non-technical audiences and travel 10–20% annually.
Benefits
- Medical, vision, dental, mental health benefits, health care concierge access, and Flexible Spending or Health Savings Accounts.
- Free concert tickets and generous paid time off, including holidays, sick time, and personal days.
- 401(k) program with company match and a stock reimbursement program.
- New parent programs, caregiver leave, baby bonuses, and fertility, adoption, foster, and surrogacy support.
- Career and skills development, tuition reimbursement, and student loan repayment.
- Volunteer time off and crowdfunding match.
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About Live Nation Entertainment
Live Nation Entertainment promotes concerts and festivals, manages artists, operates venues, and sells tickets worldwide through Ticketmaster for fans, artists, venues, and teams. Its revenue comes from ticketing fees, concert promotion and venue operations, and brand sponsorships. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Beverly Hills, California, the public company trades on the NYSE and operates divisions including Ticketmaster, Concerts, Media & Sponsorship, and Artist Nation.