Senior Technical Lead
United States
Job Description
Senior Technical Lead
Santa Clara, California

Job Summary

Agentic AI Developer - Telecom Domain

Key Responsibilities

Design, build, test, and productionize telecom-domain agents for Nokia’s Agentic Control Plane across 5G Core, Packet Core, IMS, and Autonomous Networks.

Skill Requirements

Build production-grade AI Agents using LangGraph, LangChain, Semantic Kernel, CrewAI, AutoGen, and LlamaIndex.
Design Agentic RAG solutions over telecom documentation, alarms, KPIs, topology, inventory, and operational runbooks.
Implement ingestion, chunking, embeddings, vector retrieval, reranking, grounding, and citation generation.
Develop AI microservices using Python, FastAPI, REST APIs, AsyncIO, and containerized architectures.
Create MCP Servers and MCP Clients exposing approved telecom tools, repositories, databases, and APIs.
Integrate LLMs through Vertex AI and enterprise model gateways with prompt caching and model routing.
Develop multi-step agent workflows with tool calling, contextual memory, state management, and human approvals.
Apply 5G Core, IMS, EPC, OSS/BSS, assurance, and operational domain expertise to agent design.
Design structured tool contracts and agent interfaces for reusable telecom capabilities.
Build evaluation pipelines covering grounding, telecom correctness, hallucination detection, latency, and safety.
Implement observability for prompts, retrieval quality, tool invocations, token usage, and business outcomes.
Integrate agents with PostgreSQL, vector databases, Kafka/PubSub, enterprise APIs, and telemetry platforms.
Implement Responsible AI controls, access controls, auditability, approval workflows, and security guardrails.
Deploy solutions on GKE/Cloud Run using Docker, GitLab CI/CD, automated testing, and release pipelines.
Own production rollout, incident analysis, operational readiness, regression testing, and service evolution.

Other Requirements

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Minimum Salary (US): 
Information at a Glance

Why HCLTech?

At HCLTech, you'll supercharge your potential. You'll find your career. And you'll find your spark. All at a place that knows that helping its customers stay on top starts by putting its people first.

HCLTech is a global technology company, home to more than 223,000 people across 60 countries, delivering industry-leading capabilities centered around digital, engineering, cloud and AI, powered by a broad portfolio of technology services and products. We work with clients across all major verticals, providing industry solutions for Financial Services, Manufacturing, Life Sciences and Healthcare, Technology and Services, Telecom and Media, Retail and CPG, and Public Services. Consolidated revenues as of 12 months ending June 2026 totaled $14.8 billion. 

 

Compensation and Benefits

A candidate’s pay within the range will depend on their skills, experience, education, and other factors permitted by law. This role may also be eligible for performance-based bonuses subject to company policies. In addition, this role is eligible for the following benefits subject to company policies: medical, dental, vision, pharmacy, life, accidental death & dismemberment, and disability insurance; employee assistance program; 401(k) retirement plan; 10 days of paid time off per year (some positions are eligible for need-based leave with no designated number of leave days per year); and 10 paid holidays per year.