Senior AI Engineer (Agentic Systems)

About Teams Squared

We are a team augmentation company dedicated to connecting exceptional remote talent with global organizations.

About the Role

We are currently seeking an experienced Senior AI Engineer to design, build and run the AI systems behind Mission Control, Teams Squared's internal platform: the agents, the context they work from, and the cloud they run on. The ideal candidate has strong software engineering fundamentals, hands-on experience deploying production AI agents and LLM applications, and treats prompts as code. You will work directly with the leadership team, have a real say in the product, and be based in Sri Lanka in a hybrid arrangement.

Responsibilities

• Turn business processes into working agentic systems by modelling the process, unifying the context it needs across data sources, and grounding the output in what actually happens
• Deploy and run agents in production on AWS and Claude Managed Agents, using OpenShell where privacy requires it
• Build and maintain the context layer: one view of the business across data sources and modelled processes
• Version prompts, write LLM evals and run regression checks before every change ships
• Tune each agent deployment for its use case, trading off memory, latency, speed and cost
• Design systems for new features end to end, from data and backend through agents to UI
• Explain system designs to leadership, including the architecture diagram, the trade-offs and the impact of a new feature across every system
• Recommend between approaches using numbers on cost, latency, accuracy and effort
• Build with AI coding tools: write clear specs, prototype quickly, and review code carefully, including code written by an agent
• Take agentic deployments from prototype to production and own their outcomes end to end

Requirements

Mandatory:

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 1 year building and deploying production-grade AI agents
• Strong engineering fundamentals in data structures and algorithms, including graphs and graph theory, linked lists and hash maps
• Demonstrated experience deploying AI agents or LLM applications in the cloud; personal projects count if you can explain the architecture and trade-offs
• Daily, hands-on use of AI coding tools such as Claude Code and Codex; this will be tested in the hiring process
• Prompt engineering experience, including prompt versioning and running LLM evals
• Must be based in Sri Lanka and able to work in a hybrid arrangement

Strongly preferred:

• Production experience on AWS and with Claude Managed Agents

Advantageous:

• Experience running agents in privacy-sensitive environments (e.g. OpenShell)
• Experience in context and process engineering, and in optimising agent memory, latency and inference cost
• Experience in a 0-to-1 startup
• Strong communicator who can explain a system and its trade-offs to leadership as clearly as to an engineer
• Comfortable with ambiguity, with a strong sense of ownership and the ability to create structure where there is none

You don't need experience in everything listed under preferred. We do expect you to get up to speed on any of them within a week or two of learning and trying.

Benefits

• A passionate, ambitious team of former consultants and experienced founders
• Hands-on work with frontier AI tools, in a way few firms in Sri Lanka offer
• A fast track to senior leadership
• Competitive compensation for the right person

Equal Opportunities

Teams Squared is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for further evaluation.