AI Software Engineer, CA
Photon · United States · $54,000 (stated in the posting)
AI Software Engineer
Overview: The AI Software Engineer is responsible for the technical backbone of our autonomous tools. This role bridges software engineering, API integrations, and AI-driven automation to design and deploy intelligent, highly scalable pipelines that connect underlying data layers to execution engines.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and deploy the next-generation AI Agentic Workflow Framework enabling autonomous and semi-autonomous business operations.
- Build multi-agent orchestration platforms, LLM integration layers, retrieval systems (RAG), and production-grade evaluation pipelines.
- Integrate Generative AI services (e.g., OpenAI APIs, Claude, LangChain) to automate parsing, data mapping, and action triggers.
- Partner closely with design and product teams to translate workflow concepts into reliable, highly available backend architecture.
Skills & Seniority Bar
Seniority & Experience: 7-10+ years of hands-on professional software engineering, with significant experience operating at a Senior, Staff, or Lead level scaling distributed systems.
- AI / Automation Expertise : Applied experience with LLM orchestration, custom prompt pipelines, state
- management, and asynchronous event processing.
Core Infrastructure : Deep knowledge of cloud ecosystems (GCP/AWS), JVM languages (Java/Kotlin), containerization, and microservices architecture.
Compensation, Benefits and Duration
- Minimum Compensation: USD 54,000
- Maximum Compensation: USD 189,000
- Compensation is based on actual experience and qualifications of the candidate. The above is a reasonable and a good faith estimate for the role.
- Medical, vision, and dental benefits, 401k retirement plan, variable pay/incentives, paid time off, and paid holidays are available for full time employees.
- This position is available for independent contractors
- No applications will be considered if received more than 120 days after the date of this post.