About this opportunity
Certus Recruitment Group lists this Technical Lead opportunity in austin, Texas. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Certus Recruitment is partnering with an Austin-based technology organization making a significant investment in AI, advanced automation and agentic engineering.
They're building frontier AI models and AI agents directly into their core technology environment – not as experiments, but as systems performing meaningful work in production environments where accuracy, reliability and performance matter.
They're now looking for a senior engineer to help shape what comes next.
This is a technical leadership role, but it's not a move away from coding.
You’ll remain highly hands-on while helping establish the architecture, engineering standards and operating patterns that allow autonomous and semi-autonomous AI agents to work reliably within carefully engineered constraints.
What you'll be doing:
Leading projects across the agentic AI platform
Designing and building production-grade AI agent systems
Defining architecture, interfaces and technical direction
Establishing approaches to evaluation, testing, validation and safeguards
Helping determine how AI-generated engineering work is constrained and verified
Removing technical roadblocks and driving development forward
Influencing the AI and engineering roadmap
Helping hire and develop the engineering team as it grows
Working directly with technical and business stakeholders
What we're looking for:
5-8 years' hands-on software engineering experience
Previous technical leadership experience – a formal Lead title isn’t necessary
Strong software engineering fundamentals
Practical experience building agentic AI systems that have operated in production
Experience with AI agents performing substantive work within engineered constraints
An understanding of where autonomous systems fail and how to test, validate and safeguard their output
Ability to write clean, maintainable, production-quality code
Comfortable working across languages and frameworks – potentially including Python, .NET or similar environments
You don't need to have completed an organization's entire transition to agentic engineering – very few people have.
What matters is that you’ve actually started doing it, encountered the real-world problems and developed informed technical opinions from production experience.
This is a rare opportunity to remain deeply technical while having significant influence over how an organization designs, governs, validates and deploys agentic AI.
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Worksite address
austin, TX, 78716, US
Who can apply
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