AI Engineer contract jobs Austin, TX (Hybrid)

Role – AI Engineer

Location – Austin (hybrid) – Relocation works but 12 years needed

Contract

We are seeking a highly skilled AI Engineer with hands-on experience in agent development, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), agentic workflows, and platforms such as Cursor AI. The ideal candidate will have a strong developer mindset and expertise in integrating APIs and building intelligent systems that can reason, act, and interact across tools and data sources.

Key Responsibilities:

· Design, develop, and optimize AI agents capable of reasoning, decision-making, and tool usage

· Implement and fine-tune RAG pipelines for contextual knowledge integration

· Develop, integrate, and manage agentic workflows across APIs, vector stores, and third-party tools

· Leverage Cursor AI and similar platforms to prototype and deploy agent-based applications

· Collaborate with product teams to implement AI-driven features with seamless developer experience

· Build scalable APIs for model access, integration, and service orchestration

· Stay updated with the latest in LLMs, agent orchestration frameworks, and AI tooling

Required Skills & Qualifications:

· Strong programming skills in Python or equivalent (Go/Node.js is a plus)

· Experience in developing autonomous agents and agentic workflows using frameworks like LangChain, AutoGen, or similar

· Hands-on with Cursor AI for development, debugging, and agent orchestration

· Experience building and consuming RESTful APIs

· Proficiency in RAG architectures, including vector stores (e.g., FAISS, Pinecone, Weaviate), embedding models, and retrieval tuning

· Experience with prompt engineering, tool calling, and multi-agent collaboration setups

· Solid understanding of LLMs, their fine-tuning strategies, and evaluation frameworks