Staff Software Engineer, AI Agent Platform

Job description

Corporate: Light & Wonder’s corporate team is comprised of incredible talent that works across the enterprise, defying boundaries to provide essential services in an extraordinary manner to ensure the success of the organization and the well-being of employees. Position Summary About the Team We are building a tight-knit, senior engineering group based in Austin, TX, tasked with creating the next generation of enterprise automation at Light & Wonder. Our mission is to design, deliver, and scale production-grade Agentic AI workflows that execute highly complex, meaningful tasks across the business. We will operate like a high-functioning startup within the enterprise: we favor shipping over process, rigorous evaluation over opinions, and strategic platform investments that make every subsequent deployment faster. We are leaning heavily into the modern Microsoft ecosystem, anchoring our architecture on the newly GA Microsoft Agent Framework (.NET), Azure OpenAI, and an advanced data backend powered by Snowflake, Databricks, and Microsoft Fabric. If you want to build resilient, multi-agent systems at enterprise scale, this is the team. About the Role We are looking for highly capable product builders who will own complex agentic workflows from the user interface down to the model execution. You will navigate across a React front-end, a C#/.NET orchestration layer, and various tool integrations to deliver agents that feel like refined, intelligent products. You will not be confined to a single layer of the stack. You will be responsible for the orchestration logic, multi-agent handoffs, and the rigorous evaluation coverage, ensuring your agents behave predictably in production. We don't expect you to have years of experience with the Microsoft Agent Framework specifically. We do expect broad technical expertise, a deep understanding of modern async patterns, and the ability to ship resilient AI software. Essential Job Functions Architect and deliver production-grade agent workflows end-to-end, spanning conversational UI, orchestration logic, and tool integrations Build intuitive, embedded agent interfaces using AG-UI and CopilotKit to deliver a refined product experience Implement robust orchestration using Microsoft Agent Framework (.NET), handling tool calling, multi-agent patterns, and human-in-the-loop handoffs Integrate with low-code platforms like N8N for workflow edge cases to accelerate delivery without sacrificing reliability Develop comprehensive behavioral, regression, and adversarial evaluations for all shipped workflows to guarantee production reliability Collaborate with Data Engineering on consumable data surfaces and with Platform Engineering on deployment and observability standards Contribute to shared platform primitives, reusable templates, and rigorous code review practices across the team Required Qualifications 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, with meaningful production depth on both front and back ends Strong proficiency in C# and .NET for server-side work, including modern .NET (8 / 9 / 10), async patterns, and dependency injection. This is the primary stack and is required, not preferred Strong proficiency in TypeScript and React for front-end work Experience shipping at least one production system that uses LLMs end-to-end. "Production" means real users, real reliability constraints, and real evals - not a hackathon project or a tutorial follow-along. Multi-step orchestration or agent experience preferred over single-completion-call experience Demonstrated ability to learn unfamiliar frameworks quickly and write production-grade code while doing so. We will probe for this in the technical screen Strong grasp of API design, auth, async patterns, and the tradeoffs of streaming versus request-response Working knowledge of Azure primitives (App Service / AKS / Functions, Key Vault, API Management, Entra ID) and comfort writing IaC (Bicep) Experience writing evals for non-deterministic systems: behavioral tests, regression harnesses, human-rated samples Preferred Qualifications Hands-on time with Microsoft Agent Framework, Semantic Kernel, or AutoGen. MAF specifically is recently GA; depth is uncommon and not required Experience with .NET Aspire and Azure Functions hosting patterns for agents Experience with AG-UI, CopilotKit, or comparable agent/copilot UI frameworks Experience with N8N, Make, Zapier, or similar low-code / automation platforms at production scale Experience with Foundry Observability and Foundry Evals, including the Azure DevOps Foundry-evals extension for CI/CD Prior experience on a platform or developer experience team. You know what reusable looks like Exposure to enterprise identity (Entra ID / AAD), data classification, and DLP patterns Familiarity with MCP (Model Context Protocol) and A2A (Agent-to-Agent) interoperability patterns Education Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent professional experience. Qualifications Physical Requirements The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, bend, use hands, operate a computer, and have specific vision abilities to include close and distance vision, and the ability to adjust focus while working with computer and business equipment. Work Conditions Light & Wonder and its affiliates (collectively, L&W) are engaged in highly regulated gaming businesses. As a result, certain L&W employees may, among other things, be required to obtain a gaming or other license(s), undergo background investigations or security checks, or meet certain standards dictated by law, regulation or contracts. In order to ensure L&W complies with its regulatory and contractual commitments, as a condition to hiring and continuing to employ its employees, L&W requires all of its employees to meet those requirements that are necessary to fulfill their individual roles. As a prerequisite to employment with L&W (to the extent permitted by law), you shall be asked to consent to L&W conducting a due diligence/background investigation on you. This job description should not be interpreted as all-inclusive; it is intended to identify major responsibilities and requirements of the job. The employee in this position may be requested to perform other job-related tasks and responsibilities than those stated above. #LI-JA1 Light & Wonder is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against applicants due to race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. 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