About the Job:
The Data And AI team is a highly focused effort to lead digital-first execution and transformation at Red Hat leveraging data & AI strategically for our customers partners and associates. The engineering team is focused on building and delivering strategic AI agents & MCP Servers built on our Data & AI platform designed to augment human capabilities accelerate business workflows and scale operations across the enterprise.
In this role youll take ownership of end-to-end backend and orchestration systems champion best practices and deliver impactful production-grade models. Youll work autonomously mentor others and collaborate with data engineering and product teams to bring AI & agentic capabilities into production
What you will do
Architectural Leadership: Lead the implementation of scalable distributed computing solutions designed to serve Agentic AI and ensure seamless integration with the Red Hat product portfolio.
MAS Design: Develop orchestration layers state machines tool registries and resilient routing policies with safe fallbacks for Multi Agent systems
Demonstrated experience with Microservices and RDBMS and NoSQL Databases.
Metrics driven and obsessed with NFRs (Performance Scalability security et al) and recommending/developing toolsets for the same.
Strong experience of RESTful API design and development
Innovation: Proactively explore emerging AI technologies to identify opportunities for incorporating new capabilities into software development workflows and tooling.
Engineering Excellence: Drive AI integration within the software development lifecycle (SDLC) sharing successful experiment use cases with stakeholders to foster broader innovation.
What you will bring
7 years of relevant software engineering experience
Bachelors degree in Computer Science or a related technical field or equivalent practical experience
Agentic Frameworks: Proven experience building agents and tooling frameworks; deep PydanticAI or similar state-management libraries.
Experience with Distributed systems and microservices architecture.
Systems Expertise: Expert-level proficiency in Python or Go with a specific focus on building resilient asynchronous distributed systems.
Infrastructure: Solid experience with containers and orchestration via OpenShift or Kubernetes.
AI/MLOps: Experience with GitOps automation pipelines and managing the AI/ML lifecycle in production environments.
Cloud Computing experience with AWS GCP Azure or IBM Cloud.
The following are considered a plus:
A history of open-source contributions or active participation in the AI/ML community (GitHub Research or Upstream).
Core AI Engineering: Experience implementing sophisticated RAG long-term memory systems semantic caches and vector databases.
Evaluation & Safety: Direct experience with Agent Evaluation (Eval) frameworks (measuring success rates/hallucinations) and implementing Guardrails & Governance (preventing prompt injection/infinite loops).
About Red Hat
Red Hat is the worlds leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions using a community-powered approach to deliver high-performing Linux cloud container and Kubernetes technologies. Spread across 40 countries our associates work flexibly across work environments from in-office to office-flex to fully remote depending on the requirements of their role. Red Hatters are encouraged to bring their best ideas no matter their title or tenure. Were a leader in open source because of our open and inclusive environment. We hire creative passionate people ready to contribute their ideas help solve complex problems and make an impact.
Inclusion at Red Hat
Red Hats culture is built on the open source principles of transparency collaboration and inclusion where the best ideas can come from anywhere and anyone. When this is realized it empowers people from different backgrounds perspectives and experiences to come together to share ideas challenge the status quo and drive innovation. Our aspiration is that everyone experiences this culture with equal opportunity and access and that all voices are not only heard but also celebrated. We hope you will join our celebration and we welcome and encourage applicants from all the beautiful dimensions that compose our global village.
Equal Opportunity Policy (EEO)
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