Software Engineer - AI Engineering

Responsibilities

• Design and ship the shared AI infrastructure, frameworks, and tooling that power AI capabilities across Applied's products and toolings.
• Partner with product teams to identify the highest-leverage AI use cases and take them from idea to production.
• Serve as a GenAI/LLM expert across the company – owning best practices for architecture, safety, evaluation, and deployment.
• Design, build, and ship agentic systems such as background coding agents, AI SRE tooling.
• Work directly with customers to understand their needs, demo capabilities, and shape the product roadmap. Both external customers and internal teams are your customers.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent.
• 2+ years of experience building and deploying AI/ML-powered features & products.
• Hands-on proficiency working with LLMs and agentic architectures.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and a bias toward shipping production-quality code quickly.
• Comfort working across the stack, from backend infrastructure to APIs to frontend work.
• A collaborative mindset and genuine enjoyment of customer interaction – both with external customers and internal teams who depend on your work.
• Proven ability to take initiative and context-switch across multiple high-priority projects in a fast-paced environment.

Nice to Have

• Practical ML literacy – you understand model evaluation, data pipelines, and the tradeoffs between approaches.
• Background in developer tooling, platform engineering, or internal productivity infrastructure.
• Experience working with autonomous vehicle systems or simulation software.

Compensation

Base salary range: $126,000 - $250,000 USD annually, plus equity, comprehensive health/dental/vision insurance, 401k with employer match, learning/wellness stipends, and paid time off.