Software Engineer AI Agent Development

1Contract Software Engineer - AI Agent Development

Engagement Type: Contract

Duration: 3 months (initial engagement)

Location: On-site Santa Clara CA

Overview

seeking an experienced contract software engineer to designand build AI agents that support device onboarding and continuous environment monitoring fordata center infrastructure. The engagement is an initial 3-month term with the possibility ofextension based on delivery.

The agents will be built on Microsoft Azure AI Foundry and must be production-grade from thestart. This is applied AI engineering work not research. The contractor will be expected todeliver agents that operate reliably against real device data integrate cleanly with existingplatform services and are structured so that other engineers can extend and maintain them.

What You Will Build

• The first area of work is automated device onboarding. The agents will handle the discovery andregistration of new devices into the platform reducing the manual effort currently required tobring physical equipment under management. This includes identifying device types extractingconfiguration and populating the platform with accurate asset records without requiring hand-holding from operations staff.
• The second area is continuous environment monitoring. The agents will detect changes to thephysical data center environment and keep the platforms representation of that environmentconsistent with physical reality. When equipment is added removed reconfigured or behavesunexpectedly the agents are responsible for surfacing that and driving reconciliation. Accuracyand timeliness of the digital representation is the success metric.
• Both workstreams require the agents to communicate directly with physical devices using theprotocols those devices speak.

Required Qualifications

• 8 or more years of professional software engineering experience with a demonstratedrecord of delivering production systems.
• Deep expertise in software design and architecture. This role involves substantial use of AI-assisted development tooling and success depends on the ability to produce preciseunambiguous specifications that can be implemented reliably and verified against clearacceptance criteria.
• Hands-on experience building AI agents or agentic workflows in production environmentsincluding tool use state management and reliable execution under real-world conditions.
• Practical experience with Microsoft Azure AI Foundry or a directly comparable enterpriseAI platform for building and deploying agent-based services.
• Strong Python development skills. Agent services will be built primarily in Python andmust be well-structured for extensibility and long-term maintainability.
• Demonstrated experience working with industrial device protocols specifically ModbusBACnet and OPC-UA. The contractor must be able to build agent integrations thatcommunicate with physical devices accurately and reliably.
• Experience working with digital twin concepts or asset registry systems including thechallenges of keeping a software representation of a physical environment consistent overtime.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with additional OT protocols such as MQTT/Sparkplug-B or DNP3.
• Background in data center infrastructure facilities management systems or DCIMplatforms.
• Familiarity with automated device discovery and configuration extraction acrossheterogeneous hardware environments.
• Experience designing agentic systems that operate with human-in-the-loop approvalworkflows in safety-sensitive or operationally critical contexts.