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Principal AI Engineer (Autonomous Agent)

United States · Job Posted February 18, 2026
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  • Have you built or worked with LLM-based autonomous agents before? Can you briefly describe one example?
  • Which agent or LLM frameworks have you used? (Examples: LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, AutoGen, CrewAI)
  • Would you consider yourself an expert-level Python engineer? Can you share examples of complex systems you’ve built with Python?
  • Have you implemented authentication, access control, or security mechanisms for AI/ML systems or agent workflows?
  • Have you integrated AI agents with external systems or APIs (e.g., tools, data sources, internal apps)?

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