Senior Agentic AI Engineer

Company Summary:

EchoStar is reimagining the future of connectivity. Our business reach spans satellite television service, live-streaming and on-demand programming, smart home installation services, mobile plans and products.

Today, our brands include Boost Mobile, DISH TV, Gen Mobile, Hughes and Sling TV.

Department Summary:

Our Technology teams challenge the status quo and reimagine capabilities across industries. Whether through research and development, technology innovation or solution engineering, our team members play a vital role in connecting consumers with the products and platforms of tomorrow.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

Candidates must be willing to participate in at least one in-person interview.

EchoStar is seeking a skilled and innovative Senior Agentic AI Engineer to join the AI team. This role involves designing, building, and bringing to production enterprise-grade AI solutions and autonomous multi-agent systems. The position plays a key role in developing scalable generative AI products that move completely past experimental proof-of-concepts (POCs) to drive measurable business impact.

What Success Looks Like (Objectives):

Design, develop, and deploy autonomous AI services and multi-agent workflows from initial concept to full enterprise production

Implement open communication protocol integrations with MCP for agent-to-tool integration and A2A for secure agent-to-agent coordination and task delegation

Architect hybrid control flows, state machines, and graphs to manage multi-step reasoning, balancing probabilistic LLM behavior with deterministic code paths for critical backend transactions

Integrate secure tool execution environments, utilizing sandboxed execution contexts and strict egress controls to ensure runtime safety

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into technical agent specifications and scalable microservices

Apply SRE principles to agent behavior, establishing robust fallback mechanisms, circuit breakers, and detailed audit trails to ensure system observability and reliability

Skills, Experience and Requirements:

Core Skills and Competencies (What you’ll bring):

Advanced coding skills in Python, with a deep understanding of backend frameworks and distributed microservices architecture

Deep understanding of agent interoperability and communication standards, including Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol design

AI engineering proficiency with cloud-based foundation model platforms, specifically AWS Bedrock or enterprise equivalents

Technical expertise in containerization, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud infrastructure

Proven track record of shipping LLM-powered systems into live production environments

Additional Qualifications:

Experience with multi-agent orchestration frameworks such as LangGraph, CrewAI, or AutoGen

Familiarity with agent deployment platforms and infrastructure hosting like Bedrock AgentCore or equivalent production-grade hosting environments

Experience with big data platforms and distributed systems for large-scale context processing

Minimum Requirements:

Minimum Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, or a related technical field

Minimum Experience: 5 years of experience in software development or data science

Required Technical Skills: Must have at least 5 years of experience with:

Python

AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, or GCP Vertex AI

Microservices architecture

Benefits:

We offer versatile health perks, including flexible spending accounts, HSA, a 401(k) Plan with company match, ESPP, career opportunities, and a flexible time away plan; all benefits can be viewed here: EchoStar Benefits.

The base pay range shown is a guideline. Individual total compensation will vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, and competencies; compensation is based on the role's location and is subject to change based on work location.

Candidates need to successfully complete a pre-employment screen, which may include a drug test and DMV check. Our company is committed to fostering an inclusive and equitable workplace where every individual has the opportunity to succeed. We are dedicated to providing individuals with criminal or arrest records a fair chance of employment in accordance with local, state, and federal laws.

The posting will be active for a minimum of 3 days. The active posting will continue to extend by 3 days until the position is filled.

EchoStar will provide reasonable accommodation to otherwise qualified job applicants and employees with known physical or mental disabilities, unless doing so poses an undue hardship on the Company, poses a direct threat of substantial harm to others, or is otherwise not required by law. EchoStar has a more detailed Accommodation Policy that applies to employees. EchoStar endeavors to make echostar.com and jobs.echostar.com accessible to users. Please contact leaves@dish.com if you would like to discuss the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process. This contact information is for accommodation requests only; do not use this contact information to inquire about the status of applications.

Salary Range: USD $134406.00 - $181844.00 / Year