Job description

Senior / Lead Software Engineer – AI Agents (GCP)

Location: Atlanta, GA – 3 Days Onsite

Duration: Long Term Contract

Position Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled

Senior / Lead Software Engineer – AI Agents

to design, build, and deploy production-grade

AI agents and chatbots on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

The ideal candidate will have strong software engineering experience combined with hands-on expertise in

AI/LLM applications, Python, Google Cloud, Vertex AI, Agent Development Kit (ADK), APIs, distributed systems, and SQL/BigQuery

This role will own the complete AI agent delivery lifecycle, from

rapid Proof of Concept (POC) through production deployment

, while ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, reliable, observable, and cost-effective.

Key Responsibilities

AI Agent & Chatbot Development

Design and develop

AI agents and enterprise chatbots

using modern agent frameworks.
Build agents capable of interacting with:
APIs
Databases
Enterprise applications
Cloud services
External tools
Develop tool-calling and service-integration capabilities for AI agents.
Implement multi-step agent workflows involving

reasoning, orchestration, context management, and tool execution

.

Google Cloud & ADK

Develop AI agents using

Google Agent Development Kit (ADK)

.
Build primarily with

Python

, with Java or another backend language as applicable.
Leverage

Google Cloud Platform

services to build scalable AI solutions.
Work extensively with

Vertex AI

and other GCP services.
Deploy production services using

Cloud Run and/or GKE

.
Integrate AI agents with

BigQuery and enterprise systems

.

POC to Production

Rapidly prototype AI agent solutions using

Agent Studio, AI Studio, or equivalent tools

.
Quickly evaluate concepts and demonstrate working AI solutions.
Convert successful POCs into

production-ready services

.
Establish reusable patterns and frameworks for moving AI solutions from experimentation to enterprise production.
Identify and resolve technical challenges during productionization.