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No Corp-to-corp / No Third-Party Agencies**We're Hiring on behalf of our client for Lead Agentic AI Engineer**
Hybrid Onsite near Fullerton, CA
190,000 to 210,000 annual salary (DOE)
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Full-Time, Direct Hire
*Lead AI Developer - Microsoft/.NET Platform (On Prem)**
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Partnered with a client who is seeking Lead AI Developer to help shape the next generation of intelligent, production-grade AI inside a mission critical, on prem manufacturing platform.
They're looking for a senior AI engineer who can own architecture, hands on development, and technical leadership as they embed advanced
*agentic**
capabilities, secure tool ecosystems, and reliable LLM integrations across Microsoft-based stack.
*What You'll DoArchitect end to end AI capabilities within an on prem .NET environment (ASP.NET, services, SQL Server).Build a robust agent runtime that handles tool execution, task state, routing, retries, and safe boundaries.Integrate with hosted LLM providers using modern tool/function-calling patterns and quality guardrails.Develop and maintain secure MCP-style tool servers for SQL, internal APIs, and file/report systems.Implement human in the loop controls, auditability, secrets management, and least privilege access patterns.Drive observability across logs, metrics, tracing, and dashboards.Establish testing strategies spanning unit, integration, failure simulation, and contract testing.Provide architectural direction, mentorship, reviews, documentation, and golden-path patterns for future AI dev work.Support deployments, troubleshooting, and alignment of AI capabilities with product priorities.What You Bring7+ years building distributed, production systems (Ideally, in .NET/C# services).2 years with agentic AI architecture/integration experience in business environment (not personal projects).Stron