An Agentic AI Engineer designs, builds, and deploys autonomous AI systems that do not just generate text (like traditional chatbots) but rather reason, plan, use tools, and take actions to achieve multi-step goals with minimal human oversight. This role focuses on behavior, tool-use orchestration, and workflow state management.

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Key Responsibilities

Design Agentic Architectures: Implement multi-step planners, ReAct loops, state machines, and long-term memory systems (e.g., LangGraph, AutoGen).
Tool-Use Orchestration: Integrate LLMs with external tools, APIs, databases, and enterprise systems to enable autonomous actions.
RAG & Context Management: Develop Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines and manage agent context to ground decisions in real-time data.
Production Deployment: Create evaluation frameworks for reliability, accuracy, cost, and latency, including guardrails and human-in-the-loop controls.
Multi-Agent Systems: Build systems where specialized agents collaborate to complete complex tasks.
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Required Skills & Qualifications

Programming: Strong proficiency in Python (essential) and familiarity with TypeScript/Node.js.
AI Frameworks: Hands-on experience with LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, or similar.
LLMs & Tools: Deep understanding of OpenAI APIs, Claude, Llama, and function calling.
Data & Backend: Proficiency with vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate), RAG, REST APIs, and SQL.
DevOps: Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.
Experience: Generally 2–5+ years in software engineering, with 1-2 years focused on LLM/agentic systems.
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Core Differences from Traditional AI Roles

Behavior > Prediction: Focuses on what the agent does (action) rather than just what it predicts.
Autonomous End-to-End: Shifts from one-shot prompting to persistent, goal-driven agents that maintain state.
Tool Integration: Focuses heavily on enabling AI to interact with outside software (APIs/Databases).
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Example Job Titles

Senior Agentic AI Engineer
Principal AI Engineer – Agentic Systems
Agentic AI Developer
Generative AI / Agentic AI Senior Engineer

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Vacatures

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