Software Engineer

Immediate need for a talented Software Engineer. This is a 12 months contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Charlotte(Hybrid). Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested.

Job ID:25-94835

Pay Range: $77 - $82/hour.  Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).

Key Responsibilities:

• We are one of the largest electric power holding companies in the United States, providing electricity to 7.7 million retail customers in six states.
• We have approximately 51,000 megawatts of electric generating capacity in the Carolinas, the Midwest and Florida – and natural gas distribution services serving more than 1.6 million customers in Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee and the Carolinas.
• We are transforming our customers’ experience, modernizing our energy grid, generating cleaner energy and expanding our natural gas infrastructure to create a smarter energy future for our customers.
• The Digital Transformation team is located at the client Innovation Center at Optimist Hall with product teams delivering a wide-range of leading edge solutions.
• Read more about the Innovation Center at Optimist Hall.
• An AWS Senior AI Agent Engineer is responsible for designing and implementing highly complex agentic/prompt engineering solutions.

Key Requirements and Technology Experience:

• Key Skills;AWS Bedrock, LLM , Python
• AWS Bedrock, LLM (Claude preferred), Python/lambdas
• 3 years of experience in prompt engineering, AI/ML, or related fields
• Deep understanding of large language models (e.g. Claude) and their capabilities
• Proven experience designing prompts for autonomous agents and multi-step reasoning tasks
• Strong knowledge of agentic frameworks and patterns (ReAct, Plan-and-Execute, Reflection, etc.)
• Strong experience with AWS Bedrock (Agents, Knowledge Bases, Guardrails, and foundational models)
• Proficiency with AWS serverless services: Lambda, Step Functions, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3
• Knowledge of AWS security best practices including IAM, KMS, and VPC configurations
• Familiar with Terraform and HCP
• Proficiency in Python and experience with AI agent frameworks (e.g LangChain)
• Experience with API integration and tool-use patterns for AI agents
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• A breadth of experience building software solutions (through a strong mix of independent research/projects and industry expertise).
• 5-9 years’ previous experience in software development. (Either 9 years of experience specifically in software development or seven years of experience in software development in combination with 2 years alternative experience in a related field).
• Ideally has a portfolio of work – code samples, etc.
• Deep and solid understanding of APIs.
• Have been involved in designing /building /implementing /consuming  APIs.
• Familiarity with several frameworks.
• Resulting code is concise and easy-to-follow.
• Experience with automation and optimization.
• Looks for ways to create repeatable patterns that increase the efficiency of the team.
• Experience and ability to manage and optimize databases.
• Understanding of functional programming and how to apply functional concepts in any language.
• Quick to picking up a new language or adopting a more recent version of a language.
• Familiarity and able to comfortably work with multiple platforms.
• Experience turning complex ideas into user stories.
• From that, can turn user stories into workable solutions, providing estimates to complete that work, and breaking down complex work into smaller components.
• Previous experience collaborating on a cross-functional team.
• Deep understanding of development cycle.
• Ability to debug and avoid future problems by building more robust solutions.
• Ability to look at previous personal or team experience and use this to analyze mistakes/successes, draw conclusions, and design future solutions.
• Resulting solutions have few bugs and quick remediation times.
• Experience building solutions with the larger team in mind.
• Solutions have the goal of improving software engineering at the team level.
• Experience with teaching and mentoring team members at various levels.
• A deep and solid understanding of cyber security principles such as authentication, authorization and encryption.
• Experience working with one or more CI/CD stacks and associated best practices.
• Ability to setup CI/CD for new products with no guidance.
• Recommends and implements modifications to CI/CD processes when continuous improvement opportunities are identified.
• Design and implement agentic AI solutions using AWS Bedrock, including Agents, Knowledge Bases, and Guardrails
• Build serverless architectures using AWS Lambda, Step Functions, and EventBridge to orchestrate AI agent workflows
• Design and engineer sophisticated prompts for agentic AI systems that can plan, reason, and execute multi-step workflows
• Develop prompt architectures that enable AI agents to use tools, APIs, and external resources effectively
• Create and refine chain-of-thought, tree-of-thought, and ReAct (Reasoning Acting) prompting strategies
• Build evaluation frameworks to measure agent performance, reliability, and safety
• Collaborate with ML and software engineers to integrate prompt strategies with agent frameworks (LangChain, Bedrock AgentCore) and leveraging Bedrock agents/services/foundational models.
• Optimize prompts for accuracy, efficiency, cost, and latency in production environments
• Implement guardrails and safety measures to ensure responsible agent behavior
• Document prompt patterns, best practices, and design principles for the broader team
• Stay current with the latest research in agentic AI, prompt engineering, and LLM capabilities
• Design and build highly complex software solutions (specifically 2 years of experience with AWS serverless development and 4 years of experience on a programing language such as Java or Python)
• Program well-designed, efficient code independently.
• Collaborate with designers, developers, and product owners to build solutions.
• Clearly communicate team wide progress and identify blocking processes/patterns that hold a team back.
• Participate in paired programming and code reviews with juniors to expand the team’s collective knowledge and understanding of software engineering.
• Complete independent research to refine best practices and present work to peers.
• Turn complex ideas into manageable pieces of work to complete as part of a product team.
• Coach and mentor prompt engineers.
• Provide technical guidance to leadership so that solutions are built with innovation and sustainability in mind.
• Learn the business drivers of a product and help drive the technical direction of a product to fulfill the desired vision.

Our client is a leading Utility Industry, and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration.

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