Sr. Frontier Engineer

Location: New York City, NY Salary: $65.00 USD Hourly - $70.00 USD Hourly Description: Our client is currently seeking a Sr. Frontier Engineer
Senior Frontier Engineer - Artificial Intelligence (Claude Code & Windsurf)
Required Skills

• Artificial Intelligence
• Claude Code
• Windsurf
• Generative AI
• AI Agent Development
• AI Platform Engineering

Job Description
We are seeking an experienced Senior Frontier Engineer to help build, strengthen, and govern enterprise AI harnesses using technologies such as Claude Code and Windsurf. This role requires a highly skilled professional with a multidisciplinary background spanning software engineering, AI, data, and infrastructure.
The ideal candidate will have extensive experience designing and governing agentic systems, defining AI architecture standards, establishing technical frameworks for AI-powered platforms, and providing technical leadership to engineering teams.
Key Responsibilities

• Build and enhance AI agent and skills execution environments.
• Develop validation and testing pipelines for AI solutions.
• Implement policy enforcement mechanisms and guardrails.
• Configure security, governance, and compliance controls.
• Create feedback loops to support self-healing AI workflows.
• Manage benchmarks, evaluation frameworks, and golden datasets.
• Establish auditability, monitoring, and observability standards.
• Ensure reliability, scalability, and performance of the AI skills ecosystem.
• Design and develop AI harness skills, templates, and reusable frameworks.
• Automate testing processes and solution deployment workflows.
• Prepare solution design and technical design documentation.
• Support modernization, transformation, and AI enablement initiatives.

Required Qualifications

• 12+ years of overall IT experience.
• Strong hands-on experience building and hardening AI harnesses using Claude Code and Windsurf.
• Deep expertise in Artificial Intelligence and Commercial Generative AI solutions.
• Experience working with legacy, brownfield, and regulated enterprise environments.
• Strong understanding of AI agent architecture, orchestration, and governance.
• Experience designing end-to-end conversational AI to production workflows.
• Expertise in test automation and AI solution lifecycle management.
• Proven experience creating technical architecture, solution design, and implementation documents.
• Experience building AI skills, agents, templates, and reusable accelerators.
• Knowledge of Greenfield, Brownfield, and SaaS transformation programs.

Preferred Skills

• AI Platform Engineering
• Agentic AI Systems
• LLM Operations (LLMOps)
• AI Governance and Compliance
• Cloud-Native Architectures
• Security and Risk Management for AI Solutions
• Enterprise Automation Frameworks

Experience Required
12+ Years of relevant professional experience.
Medical, dental, and vision insurance are available to qualified candidates who meet eligibility requirements.
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