AI Engineer – Agentic Systems | California City, CA
Published on CazVidat Vikara.ai
Vikara.ai is hiring a remote-eligible AI Engineer in California City, CA. Build and deploy production agents, RAG pipelines, and agentic systems.
Salary
$60,000 per year
Location
United States
Employment type
Full time
Workplace
Remote
AI Engineer – Agentic Systems | California City, CA
$60,000 per year
Job description
Vikara.ai is hiring an AI Engineer specializing in agentic systems for a full-time, remote-eligible role based in California City, California. You will design, build, and deploy autonomous AI agents and production-ready agentic workflows, from rapid MVPs through reliable production systems.
About the Role
This full-stack AI engineering position is suited to an experienced builder who takes ownership and thrives in a fast-moving environment. Applicants must have built and deployed at least two AI agents in production within the past 12 months.
What You’ll Do
- Build and ship agents for research, coding, conversation, reasoning, scheduling, analytics, workflow automation, and other domain-specific tasks.
- Own the agent lifecycle, including data ingestion, reasoning, actions, evaluation, and monitoring.
- Develop multi-step agents with autonomous planning, context tracking, memory, tool use, and API orchestration.
- Architect agent systems with tools such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, OpenAI Assistants, Model Context Protocol (MCP), and custom orchestration.
- Build retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, vector embeddings, caching, and knowledge-grounding systems.
- Connect agents to APIs, SaaS applications, CRMs, internal services, databases, and messaging platforms.
- Deploy agents as microservices with observability, evaluations, guardrails, fallbacks, and monitoring.
- Improve inference cost, latency, accuracy, and task-completion rates.
Qualifications
- Demonstrated experience building and deploying at least two AI agents in production in the past 12 months.
- Hands-on experience with agent architectures, orchestration, tool calling, and production deployment.
- Experience with RAG, vector embeddings, external API integrations, and agent evaluation or monitoring.
- Ability to take ownership of full-stack AI projects and deliver quickly in a high-velocity environment.
Compensation and Work Arrangement
- Salary: $60,000 per year.
- Employment: Full-time.
- Remote eligibility: Yes.
- Location: California City, California, United States.
Apply to join Vikara.ai and build production AI agents and agentic systems.
Frequently asked questions
Is this position fully remote or do I need to be in California City?
This role is remote eligible, so you can work from anywhere, though the company is based in California City, California.
What kind of AI projects will I be working on?
You will design, build, and deploy advanced AI agents including research agents, coding assistants, conversational agents, reasoning agents, scheduling agents, analytics agents, and workflow automation bots.
What experience do I need to qualify for this job?
You need proven experience building and deploying at least two AI agents in production within the last 12 months, along with strong expertise in agentic AI workflows and multi-domain agent design.
What technologies should I be familiar with for this role?
Experience with AI stacks like LangChain, LlamaIndex, OpenAI APIs, and knowledge of building retrieval-augmented generation pipelines and microservices deployment is required.
What is the salary for this AI Engineer position?
The salary is USD 60,000 per year.
What kind of responsibilities will I have day-to-day?
You will own the end-to-end lifecycle of AI agents including data ingestion, reasoning, action-taking, evaluation, monitoring, and production deployment with focus on stability and rapid delivery.