The key is time zone coverage and so we can expand our search across the West Coast - remote/hybrid but necessarily located in the western time zones . You must be comfortable to travel to the client site for workshops/meetings.
The role combines AI agent development (60%) and DevOps/CI/CD engineering (40%). This is a suggested split based on the responsibilities you've described.
Job Description – AI Agent Engineer (Claude SDK / AWS AgentCore / GitHub Actions)
Experience: 10-15+ years overall, including hands-on GenAI or agentic AI development.
Key responsibilities
Skills to look for
Skill
Priority
What to verify
Claude Agent SDK
Must-have
Hands-on agent development, not just Claude prompting
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime
Must-have
Actual agent deployment and runtime configuration
GitHub Actions
Must-have
Building CI/CD pipelines independently
Python or TypeScript
Must-have
Strong coding and API integration
AWS Bedrock
Must-have
Model integration and AWS ecosystem knowledge
Docker, AWS ECR, IAM
Strongly preferred
Packaging, deployment, permissions
MCP and tool calling
Strongly preferred
Building agents that execute external tools
Terraform / AWS CDK
Good-to-have
Infrastructure as Code
CloudWatch, security, monitoring
Good-to-have
Production support
