Agentic Engineering Lead
Maxar Technologies1 day ago
Westminster, CO, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$135k - $198k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect and build agentic workflows across the software development lifecycle and Engineering Operations.
- Translate engineering standards, playbooks, governance, and systems of record into automated workflows, controls, and agents.
- Implement engineering data architecture and systems-of-record models, including integrations, context, and traceability.
- Define scalable patterns for agent architecture, context, human-agent handoffs, guardrails, evaluation, and observability.
- Advise engineering teams on adapting and adopting the Agentic Software Development Lifecycle.
- Develop reusable agentic capabilities and patterns that scale across Engineering.
- Measure adoption and effectiveness and continuously improve agentic engineering capabilities.
Requirements
- Typically 15+ years of experience with a bachelor's degree, 10+ years with a master's degree, 8+ years with a PhD, or equivalent experience.
- Deep software engineering and architecture expertise, including modern software development lifecycles, automation, APIs, developer tooling, and systems integration.
- Hands-on experience designing and building AI agents, agentic systems, or AI-enabled engineering workflows.
- Strong understanding of LLMs, context engineering, orchestration, evaluation, observability, guardrails, and human-in-the-loop patterns.
- Ability to establish technical direction and influence senior engineers, architects, and engineering leaders across an organization.
- U.S. Person status is required, defined as a U.S. citizen, permanent resident, Asylee, or Refugee.
- Preferred: experience deploying production-grade agentic or autonomous engineering systems.
- Preferred: experience integrating AI with GitHub, Jira, CI/CD, documentation, and observability platforms.
- Preferred: experience driving adoption of new engineering practices across diverse teams.
- Preferred: experience in aerospace, defense, mission-critical, or other high-assurance engineering environments.
Benefits
- Competitive total rewards package including a 401(k) with company match, mental health resources, student loan repayment assistance, adoption reimbursement, and pet insurance.
- The position is incentive eligible, with the target determined by contribution, company performance, individual results, role, and breadth of contributions.
- The Colorado base pay range is $135,000.00-$180,000.00-$198,000.00 annually; other states may have different geographic market-driven ranges.
- The application window is three days from posting or reposting and remains open until a qualified candidate is identified.
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About Maxar Technologies
Maxar Technologies builds and operates commercial Earth‑observation satellites and sells high‑resolution imagery, 3D products, and geospatial analytics to government, defense, and enterprise customers. Headquartered in Westminster, Colorado, the company was formed in 2017 from the merger of DigitalGlobe and MDA and was acquired by Advent International in 2023; it supplies data for national security, mapping, and disaster response, and licenses imagery through subscription and platform APIs.