Agentic AI Lead

Title: Agentic AI Lead

Location: Dallas, TX / San Jose, CA

Employment Type: Contract to hire

Rate: $80/hr - $85/hr on C2H

Experience: 10 years to 15 years

Role Overview

We are seeking an Agentic AI Lead to design, build, and deploy autonomous AI systems. In this role, you will move beyond basic prompt engineering to create self-reasoning agents that execute complex workflows. You will integrate these agents into our Microservices Architecture and leverage the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to connect LLMs seamlessly with enterprise data sources, development environments, and secure APIs.

Key Responsibilities

• Translate Needs: Convert ambiguous client business problems into highly technical product specifications for engineering activities.
• Manage Expectations: Communicate limitations transparently while proposing viable alternative architectures
• Agent Architecture: Design and deploy multi-agent systems capable of autonomous planning, reasoning, reflection, and task execution
• MCP Tooling Development: Build and maintain Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and clients to securely expose data, file systems, and enterprise tools to LLMs.
• Microservices Integration: Wrap AI agents, RAG engines, and vector stores into modular, scalable microservices using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Tool & API Orchestration: Implement advanced tool-calling architectures to connect LLMs to production databases, external APIs, and internal software systems
• Pipeline Optimization: Evaluate and optimize agentic workflows for token efficiency, latency, context-window usage, and decision-making accuracy.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Programming: Expert proficiency in Python or TypeScript.
• AI Orchestration: Hands-on experience with LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, or LangChain.
• Model Context Protocol: Practical experience implementing or consuming open-source and custom MCP tools/servers.
• Architecture: Deep understanding of distributed systems, REST/gRPC APIs, message brokers (Kafka/RabbitMQ), and microservice communication.
• Cloud & DevOps: Strong experience with containerization (Docker) and deploying services to cloud infrastructure (AWS, Google Cloud Platform, or Azure).
• AI Expertise: Experience on vector databases embeddings, semantic search, and RAG pipelines

About Aspire Systems

Aspire Systems is a $180+ million global technology services firm with over 4,900 employees worldwide, partnering with 275+ active customers. Founded in 1996, Aspire has grown steadily at a 19% CAGR since 2020.

Headquartered in Singapore, we operate across the US, UK, LATAM, Europe, the Middle East, India, and Asia Pacific regions, with strong nearshore delivery centers in Poland and Mexico. Aspire has been consistently recognized among India’s 100 Best Companies to Work For for 12 consecutive years by the Great Place to Work Institute.

Who We Are

Aspire is built on deep expertise in Software Engineering, Digital Services, Testing, and Infrastructure & Application Support. We serve diverse industries including Independent Software Vendors, Retail, Banking & Financial Services, and Insurance.

Our proven frameworks and accelerators enable us to create future-ready, scalable, and business-focused systems, helping customers across the globe embrace digital transformation at speed and scale.

Why Join Aspire Systems

Being an Aspirian means being part of a future-ready, global workplace where you will work on emerging technologies, collaborate with diverse teams, and contribute to meaningful digital transformation initiatives.

We foster innovation, value diverse perspectives, and enable continuous learning and career growth — guided by our philosophy of “Attention. Always.” Aspire also follows a hybrid work model, promoting flexibility, collaboration, and work-life balance.

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Our Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion

At Aspire Systems, we foster a work culture that appreciates diversity and inclusiveness. We understand that our multigenerational workforce represents different regions, cultures, economic backgrounds, races, genders, ethnicities, education levels, personalities, and religions. We believe these differences make us stronger and are committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone feels respected and valued.

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Disclaimer

The above statements are not intended to be a complete statement of job content, but rather to serve as a guide to the essential functions performed by the employee in this role. Management retains the discretion to add or change the duties of the position at any time