Light & Wonder powers a significant portion of the world's regulated gaming floors and online casinos. We're building a new AI Agent Platform team in Austin focused on solving complex operational problems through production-grade agentic systems. 

This is a greenfield opportunity to help define the architecture, platform standards, and engineering practices behind a growing portfolio of AI-powered business applications. You'll work directly with business stakeholders, rapidly ship solutions, and help build reusable platform capabilities that accelerate future deployments. 

Current initiatives include: 

• AI-driven licensing workflow automation for regulated gaming environments 

• Multimodal part discovery for field technicians using image and natural language inputs 

This team operates like a startup inside the enterprise, emphasizing experimentation, measurable outcomes, and rapid delivery on a modern Microsoft-centric technology stack. 

What You'll Do 

• Design and deliver AI agent workflows end-to-end across frontend, backend, and orchestration layers 

• Build intuitive user experiences that embed AI into business workflows 

• Implement agent orchestration, tool integration, multi-agent collaboration, and human approval workflows 

• Create evaluation frameworks, regression testing, and quality controls for non-deterministic systems 

• Develop reusable platform services, templates, and engineering standards 

• Partner directly with business stakeholders to identify high-value automation opportunities 

What We're Looking For 

Required Qualifications 

• 5+ years of software engineering experience building production systems 

• Strong expertise in C# and modern .NET development 

• Strong TypeScript and React experience 

• Experience delivering production applications powered by LLMs or agentic AI systems 

• Experience designing evaluations, testing strategies, or quality frameworks for AI-powered applications 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Azure cloud services and infrastructure-as-code experience 

• Experience with agent orchestration frameworks such as Microsoft Agent Framework, Semantic Kernel, AutoGen, LangGraph, or OpenAI Agents SDK 

• Experience building copilot or agent user interfaces 

• Experience working on platform, developer experience, or reusable infrastructure teams 

Why Join Us 

• Influence foundational architectural decisions on a new AI platform 

• Significant ownership and direct access to decision-makers 

• Greenfield environment with modern AI technologies 

• Opportunity to solve real business problems with measurable impact 

• Onsite peer collaboration based in Austin, TX (4 days onsite) 

• Relocation assistance available 

Education 

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, related field, or equivalent professional experience. 

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.

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