Paladin Consulting is currently hiring an AI Engineer to join our team working onsite at our client's office located in Richardson, TX.
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Job Title: AI Engineer (Agent Development Kit / ADK)
Work Location: Richardson, TX
Duration: Long-term contract with option to hire Hours: Monday-Friday 8am-5pm; Hybrid T/W/Th in office
Education/Experience Required: High school or equivalent
Job Description:
We're looking for an AI Engineer to design and build production-grade AI agents using Google's Agent Development Kit (ADK). You'll work on multi-agent systems that integrate with enterprise data platforms and business tools, taking agents from prototype through to reliable production deployment.
Responsibilities :
Designing and building AI agents and multi-agent workflows using ADK
Agent orchestration patterns: tool use, function calling, sub-agent delegation, and state/session management
Integrating agents with enterprise data sources (Snowflake, Salesforce, or similar) and internal APIs
Deploying and scaling agents on Google Cloud (Vertex AI Agent Engine or equivalent)
Evaluating and tuning agent performance, latency, and cost across different model backends
Building tooling and guardrails around agent behavior: observability, testing, and safety checks
Collaborating with data engineering and platform teams to expose reliable, well-governed data to agents
Required Skills & Qualifications :
3+ years AI Engineer, 8+ as Software Engineer
8+ years of software engineering experience, with recent focus on applied AI/agent systems
Strong Python skills; TypeScript/JavaScript a plus
Experience shipping AI features to production, not just prototypes
Comfortable working independently in ambiguous, fast-evolving technical territory
Clear communicator, able to explain agent behavior and architecture to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Hands-on experience building agents with Google ADK (or comparable agent frameworks such as LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, with strong ability to ramp on ADK)
Strong Python development skills
Experience with LLM APIs (Gemini, Claude, OpenAI, or similar) and prompt/tool design