Senior AI Agent Engineer

dCortex
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Focus area: Agent Orchestration, MCP & Integrations

Location: India, Chennai or Bengaluru preferred

  • Hybrid

Experience: 6–10 years in software engineering, including hands-on LLM/agent development and

strong backend experience

Role Summary

Build safe, production-ready AI agents, orchestration workflows and enterprise integrations for our

platform.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design and implement agent workflows, tool calling, structured outputs and context

management.

  • Build orchestration with state management, checkpoints, human approvals and controlled

execution.

  • Develop MCP servers and clients, and integrations with APIs, databases and enterprise systems.
  • Implement authentication, authorisation, input validation and least-privilege tool access.
  • Build reliable execution with retries, timeouts, idempotency and recovery mechanisms.
  • Implement safeguards against prompt injection, unauthorised actions and data leakage.
  • Add tracing, monitoring and automated tests; optimise agent reliability, latency and cost.

Required Skills & Experience

  • Strong Python and/or TypeScript and solid backend engineering fundamentals.
  • Demonstrated experience building agents that use external tools, beyond chatbot prototypes.
  • Hands-on experience with agent orchestration and MCP (or equivalent secure tool integrations).
  • Understanding of APIs, OAuth/OIDC, databases, queues and distributed-system failure handling.
  • Experience implementing human-in-the-loop controls and guarded write operations.
  • Experience with automated testing, Docker, CI/CD and cloud deployment.

Good to Have

LangGraph, OpenAI Agents SDK, Semantic Kernel, Temporal, RAG, multi-tenant enterprise platforms.

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