Senior Engineer II - Agent Harness & Workflow Engineering

IBM

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Lowell, MA
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37 days ago

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TL;DR · Senior Engineer II - Agent Harness & Workflow Engineering

As a Senior Engineer II on the agent-first engineering team in Lowell, MA, you will build and evolve type-safe AI pipelines for intent analysis, planning, knowledge enrichment, and infrastructure generation across Z, Power, and Cloud platforms. Your day-to-day responsibilities include extending pipeline routing, designing context management and telemetry systems, owning a markdown-based workflow engine, developing a plugin-based tool provider system, and advancing an evaluation framework to ensure production safety of AI-generated outputs. You will also help build a cross-platform workflow catalog for discovery and execution by humans and AI agents. Strong Go engineering skills are essential as the entire harness is built in Go. Experience with LLM integration, building execution systems like workflow engines and pipeline frameworks, and quality measurement systems such as evaluation and testing frameworks is highly valued. This role involves working on a platform that combines small language models with strong systems engineering to deliver production-grade automation at scale.

What you'll do

  • Build type-safe AI pipelines for intent analysis and knowledge enrichment.
  • Extend pipeline routing across Z, Power, and Cloud platforms securely.
  • Design context management and observability for multi-step AI workflows.
  • Develop a markdown-based workflow engine supporting parallel execution.
  • Advance a robust evaluation framework to ensure production safety of outputs.

What we're looking for

  • Strong Go engineering experience with immediate productivity in the language.
  • Experience building execution systems such as workflow engines or pipeline frameworks.
  • Practical LLM integration skills including prompt construction and output parsing.
  • Background in building evaluation and testing systems for quality assurance.
  • Understanding of IBM Z, Power, and Cloud infrastructure APIs and operational knowledge.
  • Familiarity with Terraform, Ansible, and infrastructure-as-code patterns.
  • Knowledge of cross-platform pipeline routing and tool dispatch mechanisms.

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