Staff Software Engineer
I’m partnering with a midsize software company that’s an industry leader in their space and making a real push into Agentic AI.
This is a high-visibility Staff level role where you’ll help design and build AI systems that can reason, plan, make decisions, and act while being embedded directly into a complex, enterprise-scale platform.
This is not a data science or LLM training role. It’s about shipping real systems in production. Designing and implementing AI agents.
If you’re a Lead / Staff / Principal level software engineer in Minnesota who wants to shape how agentic AI shows up in real products let’s talk.
***No sponsorship is available. No 3rd parties. Must be local Twin Cities***
Responsibilities
*Building agentic AI systems (reasoning, planning, decision-making, action) architecting new capabilities inside a large legacy platform *70–80% hands-on coding & architecture, 20–30% technical leadership *Mentoring engineers, setting best practices, building guardrails *Influencing partner teams and raising the bar across the org *Developing workflow engines and experimenting with agentic frameworks
Desired Skills and Experience
* 10+ years of backend software engineering experience * Strong enterprise scale system design (APIs, services, integrations) * Experience building AI powered applications in production * Ability to translate business problems into shipped solutions * Java, Python, Kotlin, REST/GraphQL *Workflow orchestration tools for Agentic AI + enterprise platforms
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