Software Engineer, AI & Automation

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This role will be remote (based in the U.S.).Full-TimeMiddle
Salary$127K - $207K
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Job Details

Experience
3+ years of professional software engineering experience
Required Skills
PythonCloud ComputingJiraSlackGitHubDistributed Systems

Requirements

  • 3+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production software.
  • Strong Python proficiency with hands-on experience building production backend services and APIs.
  • Experience designing maintainable backend architectures (authentication, authorization, validation, testing, observability).
  • Experience developing distributed or cloud-based systems with knowledge of scalability and reliability.
  • Hands-on experience building production AI-enabled applications using LLM APIs, agents, or RAG.
  • Experience defining, evaluating, and improving the quality of AI-enabled systems in production.
  • Ability to identify opportunities independently and move technical work from idea to implementation.
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical tradeoffs clearly.
  • Interest in secure software development and building expertise in application and AI security.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build AI-enabled workflows and multi-agent systems for security design review, threat modeling, and vulnerability analysis.
  • Develop retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and semantic search experiences for code and documentation repositories.
  • Create automated code-review tools to identify insecure patterns and improve software quality.
  • Build production Python services and APIs with focus on architecture, observability, and reliability.
  • Operate scalable pipelines for ingesting and processing large volumes of security-related data.
  • Improve AI system quality through evaluation frameworks, prompt management, and observability.
  • Manage production tradeoffs including latency, model selection, and token usage.
  • Design integrations with third-party tools such as GitHub, Slack, Jira, and Confluence.
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