Principal AI Engineer

🕒 July 31

🦀 Maryland – Remote

🦀 Maryland – Remote

💵 $143.6k - $200k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🤖 AI Engineer

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eSimplicity

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2016

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

Consulting • Healthcare • Healthcare Insurance

eSimplicity is a company comprised of designers, engineers, and strategists that excels in creating digital services and healthcare IT solutions. They simplify complexity to deliver award-winning products and services that enhance customer experiences, improve public health, and secure the nation. Specializing in areas such as healthcare IT, telecommunications, identity management, and fraud prevention, they work with organizations like the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to improve healthcare access and quality. eSimplicity is recognized for their innovative approaches in spectrum management, data analytics, and machine learning, aiming to broaden healthcare coverage and simplify processes for healthcare providers and beneficiaries.

📋 Description

• The Agentic AI & MCP Specialist will architect, develop, and operationalize next-generation agentic systems powered by advanced LLMs and Model Context Protocol (MCP) frameworks. • This role focuses on building intelligent, multi-step, tool-using agents that can autonomously reason, plan, and execute complex workflows across a cloud-based analytics ecosystem. • The specialist will design and implement agent orchestration frameworks, integrate model-driven decision logic, and build robust, production-grade agent capabilities that safely leverage emerging AI techniques. • This position requires a deeply skilled software developer who combines strong engineering fundamentals with hands-on experience creating agentic systems, working with MCP-based integrations, designing LLM-driven tools, and building secure, scalable AI applications. • The role provides technical leadership, explores cutting-edge agentic patterns, drives proof-of-concept innovation, and partners with engineering and product teams to translate experimental architectures into real-world impact.

🎯 Requirements

• All candidates must pass public trust clearance through the U.S. Federal Government. • Bachelor’s Degree and 10+ years of software engineering experience • Experience designing, developing, and supporting production applications, platforms, or services. • Experience developing agentic AI solutions, including planning, tool utilization, workflow orchestration, multi-step reasoning, or autonomous task execution. • Experience designing and implementing Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations, tool interfaces, or model-driven service architectures. • Ability to analyze business, customer, or mission requirements and develop scalable AI-driven solutions that align with technical and operational objectives. • Experience with large language model (LLM) development practices, including fine-tuning, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), prompt engineering, and agent interaction patterns. • Proficiency in Python and experience working with APIs, microservices, distributed computing environments, and cloud-native architectures. • Experience deploying and integrating AI agents or LLM-enabled applications within cloud environments such as Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP). • Knowledge of MLOps and LLMOps practices, including model versioning, automated testing, deployment automation, monitoring, performance evaluation, and governance. • Ability to contribute to solution design discussions, provide technical guidance to team members, and communicate AI-related concepts to technical and non-technical audiences. • Experience using version control systems and CI/CD practices, including source code management, automated testing, deployment pipelines, and release management for production environments.

🏖️ Benefits

• medical, dental, and vision coverage • 401(k) retirement benefits • paid time off • paid holidays • life and disability insurance • additional wellness and employee support programs