Senior AI Engineer

Your role

Backend & Multi-Agent AI Services

• Build and maintain backend services using Azure Functions, Semantic Kernel, LangChain/LangGraph/AutoGen/CrewAI.

• Develop APIs to orchestrate LLM workflows, manage state, and support chat and analytics front ends.

• Implement multi-agent pipelines with planning, reasoning, and execution flows.

• Optimize performance, latency, and token usage with robust error handling and scalable design.

RAG, Data, & AI Pipelines

• Design and manage RAG pipelines (chunking, embedding, indexing, hybrid retrieval).

• Extend retrieval with GraphRAG and entity-driven reasoning.

• Build ingestion pipelines to validate, clean, and test data before adding it to the AI knowledge layer.

• Integrate data from CosmosDB, Dataverse, APIs, Azure Cognitive Search, SharePoint, and other enterprise sources.

• Create automated evaluation methods for retrieval accuracy, hallucination, and dataset quality.

Full Stack Integration (React/Next.js)

• Collaborate with front-end engineers to define API contracts, payloads, and session flows.

• Support full-stack applications by providing reusable backend services, SDKs, and documentation.

• Align backend services with React, Next.js, and shadcn frameworks for modern enterprise UIs.

Observability, Security & Governance

• Implement telemetry for latency, retrieval hit/miss, hallucination, cost, and user engagement.

• Integrate logging and metrics with observability tools (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana).

• Enforce RBAC, compliance, and secure handling of enterprise data, including masking, sanitization, and lineage tracking.

What you’ll need

Core Expertise

• Strong hands-on experience with Azure AI/data stack: Cognitive Search, Azure OpenAI, CosmosDB, Azure Functions, AKS, Dataverse.

• Proficiency in Python and backend frameworks (FastAPI/Flask/Django).

• Experience with RAG pipelines, multi-agent frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI), and Semantic Kernel.

• Familiarity with vector stores (FAISS, Pinecone, Weaviate, Azure Cognitive Search).

• Working knowledge of React/Next.js to support API integration with UIs.

Experience

• 4+ years in backend, ML infrastructure, or cloud engineering.

• 2+ years building AI/LLM-based applications, ideally in enterprise environments.

• Proven experience integrating multiple enterprise data sources securely.

• Background in data quality testing, validation, and continuous evaluation for AI systems.

• Exposure to full-stack development with React/Next.js.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with GraphRAG, knowledge graphs, and entity-based retrieval.

• Experience with continuous LLM evaluation (DeepEval, G-Eval, custom pipelines).

• End-to-end experience building full-stack AI solutions (backend + React/Next.js front end).

A bit about us

Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company’s global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx®) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 25+ countries on six continents.

To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

A bit about our Digital team 

Technology & Innovation

Our Technology & Innovation team strives to innovate alongside our customers and empower their businesses to thrive. We work closely with our customers to develop insights-based, data-driven technical solutions and differentiated value propositions on PlatformDIGITAL® across the world. Operating in almost 50 cities globally means we understand how rapidly the world is evolving, so we’ve built a best-in-class development model to qualify, package; and enable cloud to core to edge hybrid IT solutions. Our deep technical heritage, combined with our global footprint, means the Technology Innovation team can create and deploy services and solutions that are at the heart of the digital economy.

What we can offer you

Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers. 

Join us and you’ll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team, you’ll get to work with people from different business areas, challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. We’ll also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us. 

Our Compensation Philosophy

Digital Realty offers its employees a highly competitive compensation package, excellent benefits, and an environment that recognizes and rewards your contributions. Central to our compensation philosophy is rewarding our employees for achieving the values and objectives aligned to the company's overall goals and values.

This is an exciting time to join our business so apply now and make your mark on our future.

Notes:

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified.

Digital Realty is an equal opportunity employer, EOE/AA/M/F/Vets/Disabled.  All applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability or protected veteran status, or other status protected by law or Company policy.

Digital Realty is a publicly traded company (NYSE: DLR) with investment grade ratings from all three major ratings agencies.

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