AI Agentic Platforms Engineer

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The Position

In this role you will be a key contributor to the AI Platforms and Services Team helping to build and evolve Roches internal AI Agentic Platform - a platform that enables teams to design build run evaluate and scale AI agents and agentic workflows across the enterprise.

You will work across the modern agentic AI technology stack including agent orchestration model integration tool use enterprise data access retrieval-augmented generation context engineering agent memory governance observability and feedback loops. Your work will help ensure that AI agents are grounded in trusted enterprise context connected to the right systems and data and operated in a secure compliant and scalable way.

You will design and implement AI-powered workflows automation pipelines reusable agent components and platform capabilities that integrate large language models enterprise data APIs knowledge systems workflow tools and business applications. Your work will help developers data scientists and business teams rapidly create AI-enabled solutions using approved reusable and enterprise-ready patterns.

This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who enjoys building modern AI systems working with emerging agentic frameworks solving complex integration challenges and enabling other teams through high-quality platform capabilities and technical guidance.

Description of the area

The AI Platforms and Services team is responsible for building the foundational platforms reusable services and engineering capabilities that enable Roche teams to develop AI solutions.

We focus on creating secure compliant AI-builder-friendly platforms that simplify the use of large language models enterprise data workflow automation retrieval-augmented generation model-context integration AI orchestration and agentic software development patterns. Our mission is to accelerate AI adoption across Roche by providing robust platform capabilities reusable engineering patterns and best practices that help teams move from experimentation to market business value.

The person in this role will work in a modern agentic AI platform environment that connects multiple layers of the enterprise AI stack including models tools orchestration frameworks data platforms context services governance capabilities observability and feedback loops.

The AI Agentic Platform is expected to enable teams to build agents that are not only powered by LLMs but also grounded in trusted enterprise context. This includes access to business data semantic metadata knowledge systems retrieval services user and workflow context agent memory enterprise tools and policy-driven integrations.

In a highly regulated healthcare environment quality security compliance observability and responsible AI are essential. The team works closely with product owners architects AI engineers data engineers security experts compliance teams and business stakeholders to deliver platform capabilities that are technically strong enterprise ready and easy to adopt.

Job Responsibilities

AI Agentic Platform Engineering

• Build and evolve platform capabilities that enable teams to design run monitor and scale AI agents and agentic workflows.

• Develop reusable APIs SDKs connectors templates and developer tools for internal platform users.

Agentic Workflows and Context Engineering

• Design and implement workflow state retrieval and orchestration tools such as flow frameworks LangGraph LangChain AutoGen CrewAI or similar.

• Implement agentic patterns such as tool use planning routing human-in-the-loop flows memory and multi-agent collaboration.

• Enable trusted enterprise grounding through RAG semantic search hybrid search reranking vector databases knowledge systems and enterprise APIs.

AI and Data Integration

• Robustly connect with enterprise data sources APIs document repositories workflow tools knowledge bases and business applications.

• Collaborate with data engineers AI engineers and architects to design integration patterns that are scalable secure compliant and reusable.

• Support safe access to structured and unstructured data metadata business context and enterprise tools.

Platform Enablement

• Improve developer experience by simplifying platform usage reducing friction and creating clear tutorials and educational materials.

Quality Security Observability and Continuous Improvement

• Apply software engineering best practices including testing CI/CD code review documentation monitoring and maintainability.

• Implement secure compliant auditable and responsible AI policies for data access tool use agent behavior and enterprise integration.

• Evaluate emerging agentic AI technologies and continuously improve platform capabilities observability evaluation and feedback loops.

Qualifications

Education / Experience

• BS/MS/PhD or equivalent degree in Computer Science Software Engineering Data Engineering Artificial Intelligence or a related field.

• Have 1-2 years hands-on software engineering experience ideally in AI automation cloud platforms developer platforms or enterprise application development.

• Have experience building AI-powered applications GenAI solutions workflow automations or agentic systems.

• Have an interest in AI and stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in agentic AI LLM application development context engineering and AI platform engineering.

• Be self-directed proactive collaborative and comfortable working in a fast-paced dynamic environment.

• Have analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Have verbal and written communication skills.

• Be detail-oriented organized and focused on delivering high-quality engineering outcomes.

• Be willing to learn experiment and expand your skill set as AI technologies evolve.

• Be able to communicate in English at C1 level or higher.

Technical Skills

Technical Core

• AI & Agentic Development: Experience building AI-powered applications using LLMs and frameworks such as LangChain LangGraph AWS Agent-Builder Semantic Kernel CrewAI or similar.

• Workflow Automation: Familiarity with connection and orchestration tools such as n8n Digital Studio Flowable or similar.

• Programming: Python or Go/Kotlin/TypeScript.

• Development: Experience with REST APIs webhooks microservices connectors and enterprise system integrations.

Data & Infrastructure

• Familiarity with RAG architectures embeddings semantic search vector databases and context engineering patterns.

• Understanding of integration of AI solutions with enterprise data sources knowledge bases APIs document repositories and workflow tools.

• Cloud Platforms: Experience developing solutions on AWS and Azure. GCP is a plus.

• Familiarity with git CI/CD containers and cloud-native deployment practices.

Nice to Have

• Experience with multi-agent workflows agent memory tool use and human-in-the-loop patterns.

• Familiarity with MCP semantic layers data catalogs metadata or business glossary integration.

• Familiarity with AI evaluation observability tracing guardrails and feedback loops.

• Experience building developer platforms reusable accelerators internal tools SDKs or APIs.

Additional Qualifications

• Comfort working in an emerging and fast-changing technology space where patterns frameworks and best practices are continuously evolving.

Compensation & Benefits

This position also offers an attractive benefits package.

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Who we are

A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together more than 100000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities foster creativity and keep our ambitions high so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.

Lets build a healthier future together.