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EchoStar is seeking a strategic and visionary Lead Agentic AI Engineer to drive autonomous multi-agent system initiatives and define the future of generative AI products. This leadership role focuses on moving past experimental proof-of-concepts to deliver scalable, highly performant, and cost-effective solutions that drive measurable business impact and long-term innovation. Collaborating closely with business teams, product owners, and engineering units, this position translates complex workflows into resilient, production-ready microservices and architectures. By leveraging advanced agentic AI techniques, this role will actively revolutionize the entertainment industry and shape the next generation of digital entertainment experiences.

What Success Looks Like (Objectives):

Mentor and lead a team of AI engineers to foster a culture of technical excellence and innovation

Define long-term technical strategy for the AI roadmap, collaborating with leadership to align engineering design with business objectives

Conduct architectural reviews and set standards for code quality, scalability, and security across multi-agent workflows

Design, develop, and deploy scalable AI services and hybrid control flows, state machines, and graphs to manage multi-step reasoning

Implement open communication protocol integrations with MCP for agent-to-tool integration and A2A for secure agent-to-agent coordination

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into technical agent specifications and production-ready architectures

Core Skills, Competencies, and Key Experiences (What you’ll bring)

Technical leadership and mentorship capabilities to drive a culture of technical excellence and innovation

Ability to define long-term technical strategies and align complex engineering designs with broader business objectives

Strong skills in conducting architectural reviews and establishing enterprise-wide standards for code quality, scalability, and security

Deep expertise in building hybrid control flows, state machines, and graphs to balance probabilistic LLM behavior with deterministic paths

Advanced AI application skills, specifically regarding multi-agent orchestration frameworks and open communication protocols like MCP and A2A

Collaboration and communication skills to bridge technical specifications with cross-functional business requirements

Additional Qualifications:

Familiarity with agent deployment platforms and infrastructure hosting such as Bedrock AgentCore

Experience with big data platforms and distributed systems for large-scale context processing

Candidates must be willing to participate in at least one in-person interview.

Minimum Requirements:

Minimum Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, or a related technical field

Minimum Experience: 6 years of experience in software development, with at least 3 years in a technical leadership or staff-level capacity, and a proven track record of shipping LLM-powered systems into live production

Required Technical Skills: Must have at least 3 years of experience with: Software development and machine learning

Containerization, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud infra such as Docker, EKS, or GitLab CI/CD

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Salary Range

Compensation: $153,755.00/Year - $208,035.00/Year About Our Department

Our Technology teams challenge the status quo and reimagine capabilities across industries. Whether through research and development, technology innovation or solution engineering, our team members play a vital role in connecting consumers with the products and platforms of tomorrow.

About Our Company

EchoStar is reimagining the future of connectivity. Our business reach spans satellite television service, live-streaming and on-demand programming, smart home installation services, mobile plans and products.

Today, our brands include Boost Mobile, DISH TV, Gen Mobile, Hughes and Sling TV.

Benefits

We offer meaningful health perks, including flexible spending accounts, HSA, a 401(k) plan with company match, employee stock purchase plan, career opportunities, and a flexible time away plan. Review a benefits summary here: EchoStar Benefits

The base pay range shown is a guideline. Individual total compensation will vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, and competencies. Compensation is based on the role's location and is subject to change.

Candidates need to successfully complete a pre-employment screen, which may include a drug test and DMV check. Our company is committed to fostering an inclusive and equitable workplace where every individual has the opportunity to succeed. We are dedicated to providing individuals with criminal or arrest records a fair chance of employment in accordance with local, state, and federal laws.

This job posting will be active for a minimum of 3 days and will continue to extend by 3 days until the position is filled.

We pride ourselves on developing and promoting talent as an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. EchoStar will accommodate the sincerely held religious beliefs of employees if such accommodations are not undue hardships and are otherwise within the bounds of applicable law. All qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with local, state, and federal law. You may redact any information that identifies age, date of birth, or dates of school/graduation from your application documents before submission and throughout our application process.

EchoStar will provide reasonable accommodation to otherwise qualified job applicants and employees with known physical or mental disabilities, unless doing so poses an undue hardship on the Company, poses a direct threat of substantial harm to others, or is otherwise not required by law. EchoStar has a more detailed Accommodation Policy that applies to employees. EchoStar endeavors to make echostar.com and jobs.echostar.com accessible to users. Please contact leaves@dish.com if you would like to discuss the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process. This contact information is for accommodation requests only; do not use this contact information to inquire about the status of applications. If you have questions regarding your application or the recruitment process please email Recruiting@Dish.com .

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