Agent Platform Engineer

Function

Were Hitachi Digital Services a global digital solutions and transformation business with a bold vision of our worlds potential. Were people-centric and here to power good. Every day we future-proof urban spaces conserve natural resources protect rainforests and save lives. This is a world where innovation technology and deep expertise come together to take our company and customers from whats now to whats next. We make it happen through the power of acceleration.

Imagine the sheer breadth of talent it takes to bring a better tomorrow closer to today. We dont expect you to fit every requirement your life experience character perspective and passion for achieving great things in the world are equally as important to us.

Summary

Designs secures and operates AI agents along with the tools they invoke incorporating the tracing evaluation and cost-management capabilities required for production environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop AI agents and strongly typed tools that integrate with enterprise systems.
• Implement entitlements agent identities guardrails and approval workflows for high-impact actions.
• Establish tracing evaluation and cost-per-decision monitoring capabilities (FinOps for AI).
• Manage the full agent lifecycle including versioning deployment and operational monitoring.
• Integrate agents with existing engineering platforms and streaming data sources and provide operational runbooks for support teams.

Technology and Skills

• Python development and API engineering (REST typed schemas)
• LLM application and agent frameworks (LangChain LangGraph or equivalent) including tool/function calling and Model Context Protocol (MCP)
• LLM evaluation tracing and observability tools (MLflow LangSmith OpenTelemetry or equivalent)
• Ontologies and knowledge graph technologies (RDF/OWL property graph platforms such as Neo4j or equivalent)
• Cloud infrastructure CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code practices supporting Agentic Platforms
• Identity management access controls and guardrail implementation for AI systems

Experience

• 10 years of experience in software engineering or platform engineering
• 2 years of experience developing and deploying production-grade LLM or agent-based applications
• Experience designing human-in-the-loop approval workflows and using evaluation frameworks as release gates

Nice to Have

• Experience with Databricks (Genie Mosaic AI Agent Framework)
• Familiarity with AI-assisted software development lifecycle practices
• Automotive or manufacturing industry experience

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Were a global team of innovators. Together we harness engineering excellence and passion to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can make a positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can bring a better tomorrow closer to today this is the place for you.

Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people which drives our innovation and growth.

We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued heard and safe to express themselves they do their best work.

We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits support and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. Were also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). Were always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best which leads to unexpected ideas. So here youll experience a sense of belonging and discover autonomy freedom and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.

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