2 months ago
Base Salary
$130k - $214k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and deploy production-grade AI agents, workflows, tool integrations, and multi-agent orchestration systems.
- Integrate agents with UKG enterprise systems using APIs, MCP servers, custom tools, skills, and plugins.
- Drive technical strategy and architecture for agentic AI initiatives and lead large-scale cross-functional projects.
- Oversee agent deployment, monitoring, versioning, lifecycle management, cost monitoring, performance optimization, and iterative improvement.
- Implement service health, telemetry, observability, execution tracing, decision logging, and failure analysis.
- Define and automate agent testing strategies, including prompt validation, tool validation, workflow testing, and adversarial scenarios.
- Mentor engineers and promote engineering excellence, agent safety, and production development best practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 7+ years of professional software development experience and 2+ years building production agentic AI systems or LLM-powered applications.
- Deep expertise in one or more of Python, Java, C#, JavaScript, or TypeScript.
- Hands-on experience with Google ADK, Anthropic Claude SDK, LangChain, LangGraph, or similar agentic frameworks.
- Experience designing multi-agent systems, orchestration patterns, tool-use architectures, prompt engineering, and context engineering.
- Experience integrating agents with enterprise systems through REST APIs, tools, MCP, and function calling.
- Extensive software architecture and design experience building scalable and reliable systems in a DevOps model.
- Proven experience leading and delivering large-scale, complex software projects, including agentic AI initiatives.
- Proficiency with GCP, Vertex AI, Azure, Azure OpenAI, AWS, Bedrock, and GitHub.
- Experience building telemetry and observability for agentic systems, including execution tracing, decision logging, cost monitoring, and success-rate tracking.
- Strong problem-solving, communication, leadership, interpersonal, and stakeholder-influence skills.
Benefits
- The position offers a stated base pay range of $129,500 to $214,000, with potential eligibility for performance-based bonuses and restricted stock units.
- UKG states that it provides flexibility and benefits employees can count on.
- UKG is unable to offer sponsorship for this position.
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About UKG
UKG builds cloud software for human capital and workforce management—HR, payroll, timekeeping, and scheduling—sold as SaaS to mid‑size and large employers. Formed in 2020 by the merger of Ultimate Software and Kronos, it is privately held by Hellman & Friedman and has dual headquarters in Lowell, Massachusetts, and Weston, Florida. Its platform helps organizations handle pay, compliance, and workforce planning across industries.