Lead AI Agent Engineer

Birmingham, Alabama

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Type: Direct-Hire

Experience: 5

Category: Information Technology

Contractor Work Model: Hybrid

Brand: System One

Job ID: 381135

Date Posted: 10/02/2026

Shortcut: http://jobs.systemone.com/qps7P1


Job Title: Lead AI Agent Engineer
Location: Birmingham, AL, Knoxville, TN or Lafayette, LA
Type: Permanent Full Time

Responsibilities

  • Implement, administer, secure, and support enterprise AI coding agent and developer productivity platforms within a large-scale financial services environment.
  • Take AI coding agent capabilities beyond proofs of concept into secure, production enterprise environments.
  • Work independently on complex integrations, establish technical standards and controls, develop validation and automation frameworks.
  • Provide technical leadership to engineering teams adopting AI assisted development technologies.
  • Support production AI agent capabilities across the software development lifecycle, including platform configuration, agent integrations, access controls, functional and security validation, troubleshooting, and ongoing operational management.

Requirements

  • 5+ years hands-on experience implementing and administering enterprise AI coding platforms, including GitHub Copilot, OpenAI Codex/coding agents, or comparable technologies.
  • Strong experience building and configuring AI agents, custom assistants, agent tools, integrations, context management, orchestration, and multi-agent workflows.
  • Hands-on knowledge of Model Context Protocol (MCP), including MCP server implementation, authentication, authorization, permissions, identity propagation, credential management, and secure tool access.
  • Strong Python development skills, including REST APIs, automation utilities, integration services, agent services, test harnesses, and validation frameworks.
  • Strong AWS experience, particularly Amazon Bedrock, Bedrock Agents, Bedrock AgentCore, IAM, Lambda, API Gateway, ECS, CloudWatch, Secrets Manager/Parameter Store, ALB, and VPC/networking.
  • Strong understanding of enterprise identity and access management (IAM), including OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, SSO, SCIM, RBAC, JWT, service identities, AWS IAM/Identity Center, and Active Directory/Entra ID.
  • Experience implementing least privilege security controls for autonomous agents, users, repositories, APIs, and tools.
  • Experience validating AI agent security, including authorization boundaries, token handling, secrets exposure, privilege escalation, cross user/project access, and prompt injection/tool abuse scenarios.
  • Experience developing automated agent evaluation, regression testing, security validation, or test frameworks.
  • Experience configuring enterprise policies, repository access, model settings, agent permissions, usage controls, and security controls for developer AI platforms.
  • Demonstrated experience supporting production developer platforms or AI/ML platforms used across multiple engineering teams.
  • Ability to troubleshoot complex cloud, AI agent, identity, API, and platform integrations.
  • Technical leadership experience supporting complex enterprise implementations and establishing engineering standards.

Desired Skillset

  • Experience with Bash/Shell scripting or PowerShell.
  • Experience with asynchronous Python, structured logging, and Python API frameworks.

Educational Requirements
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.

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