Staff Software Engineer, AI Agent Platform

Corporate: Light & Wonder’s corporate team is comprised of incredible talent that works across the enterprise, defying boundaries to provide essential services in an extraordinary manner to ensure the success of the organization and the well-being of employees. Position Summary About the Team We are building a tight-knit, senior engineering group based in Austin, TX, tasked with creating the next generation of enterprise automation at Light & Wonder. Our mission is to design, deliver, and scale production-grade Agentic AI workflows that execute highly complex, meaningful tasks across the business. We will operate like a high-functioning startup within the enterprise: we favor shipping over process, rigorous evaluation over opinions, and strategic platform investments that make every subsequent deployment faster. We are leaning heavily into the modern Microsoft ecosystem, anchoring our architecture on the newly GA Microsoft Agent Framework (.NET), Azure OpenAI, and an advanced data backend powered by Snowflake, Databricks, and Microsoft Fabric. If you want to build resilient, multi-agent systems at enterprise scale, this is the team. About the Role We are looking for highly capable product builders who will own complex agentic workflows from the user interface down to the model execution. You will navigate across a React front-end, a C#/.NET orchestration layer, and vario [... source excerpt omitted ...] gle layer of the stack. You will be responsible for the orchestration logic, multi-agent handoffs, and the rigorous evaluation coverage, ensuring your agents behave predictably in production. We don't expect you to have years of experience with the Microsoft Agent Framework specifically. We do expect broad technical expertise, a deep understanding of modern async patterns, and the ability to ship resilient AI software. Essential Job Functions Architect and deliver production-grade agent workflows end-to-end, spanning conversational UI, orchestration logic, and tool integrations Build intuitive, embedded agent interfaces using AG-UI and CopilotKit to deliver a refined product exp [... source excerpt omitted ...] edge cases to accelerate delivery without sacrificing reliability Develop comprehensive behavioral, regression, and adversarial evaluations for all shipped workflows to guarantee production reliability Collaborate with Data Engineering on consumable data surfaces and with Platform Engineering on deployment and observability standards Contribute to shared platform primitives, reusable templates, and rigorous code review practices across the team Required Qualifications 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, with meaningful production depth on both front and back ends Strong proficiency in C# and .NET for server-side work, including modern .NET (8 / 9 / 10),