Sr. GenAI/Agentic AI Engineer

We're looking for a Senior GenAI/Agentic AI Engineer to help turn complex business needs into practical, production-ready AI solutions. This role offers the chance to design and build innovative agentic workflows, prompt-driven applications, and GenAI tools that support meaningful outcomes in a collaborative, technology-forward environment.
Responsibilities

• Translate ambiguous business and stakeholder needs into effective GenAI solutions and agentic workflows.
• Design and build AI agents and multi-step orchestration patterns using tools, function calling, retrieval, and human-in-the-loop approaches.
• Develop and improve prompts, RAG pipelines, structured outputs, and LLM-based applications.
• Create and apply evaluation methods to test quality, reliability, safety, and failure modes of agentic systems.
• Integrate GenAI solutions with enterprise data, APIs, applications, and internal tools.
• Partner with product, engineering, and business teams to prototype, validate, deploy, and continuously improve use cases.
• Apply practical considerations around observability, guardrails, security, latency, cost, and responsible AI.

Skills

• 3+ years of directly relevant engineering experience, or 5+ years for a senior-level background.
• Hands-on experience with LLMs, agentic architectures, prompt engineering, and retrieval-augmented generation.
• Strong ability to evaluate and test AI solutions for performance, reliability, and safety.
• Experience building production-ready applications and working across the full application lifecycle.
• Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to translate business problems into well-structured technical solutions.
• Clear communication and collaboration skills for working with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Comfort with AI coding tools such as Antigravity, Kiro, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or similar platforms.

Preferred Skills

• Familiarity with agentic deployment, monitoring, observability, and guardrails.
• Exposure to integration approaches such as MCP and A2A.
• Experience working with AI systems in environments where responsible AI, security, and cost efficiency are important.
• Ability to learn new GenAI tools and frameworks quickly.
• Background in fast-paced, collaborative environments where experimentation and iteration are encouraged.

Horizontal is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where diversity, equity, and inclusion are valued and respected. We welcome candidates of all backgrounds and experiences and are dedicated to creating an environment where everyone can contribute and thrive.
By applying for this position, you acknowledge and agree that Horizontal Talent may contact you regarding your application using automated technology, including phone calls, SMS/text messages, or email, which may be delivered by our virtual AI recruiter, Alex.
Please apply through this online posting or by visiting our Job Board at Applications will be accepted for 4 weeks. For those that join the team, we offer competitive compensation and benefits including medical, dental, vision, and retirement. Check out all we have to offer and how you can become part of the Horizontal Talent Team. The pay range for this role is $60 - $96 per hour based on qualifications and experience.