Senior AI Agent Engineer

About the role

Coforge is hiring a Senior AI Agent Engineer to build and operate AI agents, working remotely. The role covers building agents, validating prototypes with business users, and improving their quality, latency, reliability, observability and cost.

Key responsibilities

• Build agents using Azure AI Foundry, Copilot Studio or other approved frameworks, including Python-based frameworks where appropriate.
• Build or coordinate rapid prototypes and validate them with business users.
• Develop prompts, instructions, tool definitions, routing and orchestration workflows.
• Implement grounding, citation, retrieval, context management, guardrails and human-review patterns.
• Integrate agents with enterprise tools and APIs.
• Create automated evaluations and optimise answer quality, latency, reliability, observability and cost.
• Support production troubleshooting, monitoring, feedback loops and continuous agent improvement.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, AI or a related field.
• Software development experience.
• Experience developing generative AI, AI assistant or agent-based applications.
• Experience deploying secure, testable enterprise applications.

Required skills

• Strong Python skills and experience integrating REST APIs and cloud services.
• Preferred: Azure AI Foundry and Copilot Studio.
• Preferred: Semantic Kernel, MCP, multi-agent systems or comparable orchestration frameworks.
• Preferred: RAG, evaluation pipelines, citations and tool-use controls.
• Azure AI Engineer or related certification preferred.