Alongside
AI-Native Tech Lead | Agentic Systems
Alongside partners with organizations to drive digital transformation and build high-performing tech teams. We’re looking for a hands-on Tech Lead to build production-grade AI agents and lead delivery from architecture to deployment. You’ll code, make technical decisions, and help the team ship reliable AI-powered products quickly. Responsibilities: • Build agent systems with Hermes Agent, OpenClaw, Letta, Agent Zero, OpenHands , or similar open-source runtimes. • Use frameworks such as OpenAI Agents SDK, LangGraph, Google ADK, Vercel AI SDK, CrewAI, AutoGen, or Mastra . • Develop reusable skills, tools, subagents, workflows, persistent memory, scheduled tasks, and messaging integrations. • Integrate OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, open-weight, and local models through tool calling, structured outputs, streaming, and model routing. • Connect agents to systems using MCP, A2A, REST APIs, webhooks, browsers, terminals, and computer-use tools . • Build RAG and context systems using pgvector, Pinecone, Weaviate, Elasticsearch , or equivalent technologies. • Establish evaluations and observability with LangSmith, Braintrust, Phoenix, OpenTelemetry , or provider tracing. • Secure autonomous agents using sandboxing, least-privilege access, approval gates, secrets management, audit trails, and prompt-injection defenses. • Use Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot to accelerate delivery. • Own technical plans, production quality, latency, reliability, and model costs. Requirements • Strong software engineering and hands-on technical leadership experience. • Experience shipping AI agents or LLM applications into production. • Strong Python or TypeScript skills and cloud infrastructure experience. • Practical knowledge of agent orchestration, memory, tool use, RAG, evaluations, and human-in-the-loop design. • Familiarity with current trends such as self-improving agents, reusable agent skills, local-first and bring-your-own-model runtimes, multimodal and computer-use agents, MCP/A2A interoperability, durable execution, and eval-driven development . Benefits • Remote work (Vietnam-based) • Full time: 8 hours per day, aligned with Portugal business hours (WET/WEST) • Freelance / Service Agreement • Hourly Rate: 20$-25$ Originally posted on Himalayas
