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# Lead Agentic AI Engineer

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CodeRoad posts a FDE role to build what the customer runs in US · city not listed, at $190,000–$250,000 base, above the senior FDE median of $190,000 across 1,864 postings with pay. Leads the architecture and delivery of production-grade agentic AI systems for enterprise use, including multi-agent orchestration, Salesforce integrations, evaluation, security, and observability. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026.

- [CodeRoad](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/coderoad)

Posted Oct 7, 2026 by CodeRoad · open on Greenhouse as of Nov 8, 2026

**$190,000–$250,000** *annualized* US · city not listed Full-time

Leads the architecture and delivery of production-grade agentic AI systems for enterprise use, including multi-agent orchestration, Salesforce integrations, evaluation, security, and observability.

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## At a glance

### Posted base pay

$190K–$250K Above the median

Midpoint $220K · median $190K

This job $190K to $250K. Senior FDE postings, 1,864 postings: the middle 50% of posted pay is $160K to $220K, median $190K.

### The work

Builds what the customer runs

Balance **Mostly building**

Project stages

1. Pre-sales (not covered)
2. Proof of concept (not covered)
3. Implementation
4. Operations

- **Coding**: Writes production code

- **Builds for**: External customers

- **Level**: Senior

- **Role**: Technical lead

### What they ask for

Experience

- **7+ years** enterprise software engineering
- **3+ years** production AI / LLM experience

Background

- **Software engineering**
- **Implementation and data engineering**

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## Conditions

- **Location**: US · city not listed

- **Employment type**: Full-time

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## The job description from CodeRoad

Posted by CodeRoad on Oct 7, 2026

**Engagement Type:** Full-Time

### About CodeRoad

CodeRoad is a technology execution partner trusted by companies across North America since 2002. We work alongside our clients to engineer, modernize, and scale the technology that powers their businesses, combining deep technical expertise, specialized teams, and shared accountability for outcomes. Our capabilities span product engineering, platform engineering, legacy modernization, and AI engineering.

Our engineers, designers, delivery leaders, and technology specialists collaborate through Velocity Studios: specialized teams developed within CodeRoad to deliver complex technology initiatives. Being assigned to a project means you become part of a collaborative environment where you can strengthen your expertise, take ownership of meaningful work, and grow alongside experienced professionals.

### Why Build Your Career at CodeRoad?

- **High-Velocity Work & Client Exposure:** We work close to the technology, teams and roadmaps that move real outcomes. Direct engagement with U.S. client teams and roadmaps.
- **Career Continuity & Long-Term Opportunity:** Your career here can outlast any single project. Continuous multi-project pipeline; long-tenure CodeRoaders.
- **Engineering Autonomy & Technical Mastery:** We invest in the skills that shape what's next. Agentic AI tools and training, Coursera Enterprise, Studio practice labs, L1-L7 Career Framework.
- **High-Trust Employee Experience:** You grow in an environment built on trust, transparency and recognition. High-touch onboarding, transparent leadership communication, community recognition, psychological safety.

### Key Responsibilities

- **Architect Multi-Agent Orchestration Systems:** Design and deploy stateful multi-agent coordination graphs using **LangGraph** or custom DAG loops, enabling dynamic task decomposition, supervisor orchestration, human-in-the-loop escalation, and self-healing error recovery.
- **Engineer MCP Interfaces & Connectors:** Build standardized **Model Context Protocol (MCP)** servers and connectors to securely expose Salesforce tools, custom objects, actions, and enterprise context to autonomous agent runners.
- **Optimize Reasoning, Latency & Token Spend:** Architect multi-tiered LLM routing strategies across model tiers (utilizing **Claude 3.5 Sonnet/Opus** for complex multi-turn reasoning and **Haiku** for high-throughput utility tasks) to balance latency, accuracy, and API costs.
- **Establish Automated Evaluation Pipelines:** Implement automated eval harnesses (**Promptfoo**, **Ragas**, **DeepEval**) within CI/CD pipelines to continuously measure context grounding, schema validity, and hallucination resistance against golden benchmark datasets.
- **Enforce Defense-in-Depth Security & Observability:** Implement end-to-end telemetry and security using **LangSmith** or **Langfuse**, combined with input sanitization, field-level security (FLS) compliance, and automated PII scrubbing.
- **Lead Technical Strategy & Architecture Standards:** Establish specification-driven development patterns, clear API contracts, and architectural blueprints, communicating technical trade-offs directly to engineering teams and C-suite stakeholders.

### What You Bring

- **7+ Years of Enterprise Software Engineering:** Proven experience building robust software systems in **Python**, **TypeScript / Node.js**, **Java**, or **Apex**.
- **3+ Years of Production AI / LLM Experience:** Demonstrated track record designing, evaluating, and scaling production autonomous agent systems and RAG architectures in enterprise environments.
- **Agentic AI & Tooling Mastery:** Deep expertise with **LangGraph**, **LangChain**, **Anthropic / Claude APIs** (tool calling, prompt caching, Claude Code), **MCP**, and observability suites (**LangSmith**, **Langfuse**, **OpenTelemetry**).
- **Rigorous Evaluation Mechanics:** Direct experience setting up automated test gates using **Promptfoo**, **Ragas**, or **LLM-as-a-judge** frameworks to monitor non-deterministic behavior and context degradation.
- **Proactive Ownership & Diagnostic Skills:** High autonomy to isolate complex latency bottlenecks, debug agent routing loops, and turn ambiguous enterprise needs into secure, deterministic technical realities.
- **Advanced English Fluency:** Exceptional written and spoken English communication skills for direct technical leadership and consultation with U.S.-based client executives.
- **Legal Authorization:** Legal authorization to work in the United States.
- **Bonus Ecosystem Exposure:** Hands-on experience with Salesforce APIs (REST, SOQL/SOSL, Platform Events), **Salesforce Data Cloud**, vector search, **Agentforce**, containerized MCP deployments, or Spec-Driven Development (SDD) is a strong plus.

### What You’ll Love

- Competitive Pay ($190,000–$250,000 USD / year)
- Comprehensive Benefits Package (Medical, Dental, Vision & Retirement Plan)
- Holidays Off & Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Opportunity to work with high-growth US-based companies and cutting-edge tech stacks.

### Ready to Build What Actually Ships?

Explore opportunities and submit your application today!

[View posting at CodeRoad](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/coderoad/jobs/4436757009)

## About CodeRoad

CodeRoad delivers software engineering, modernization, and AI implementation through nearshore teams and its Velocity-as-a-Service model.

Acquired · 200–500 people

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