Applied AI Engineer

Applied AI Engineer

Nashville, TN or Tampa, FL with hybrid set up (2-3 days on sight)

Job Description

We are looking for a motivated Applied AI Engineer with 3 to 5 years of overall experience to actively engage in the engineering craft, taking a hands-on approach to building and supporting high-visibility projects. The role involves applying engineering expertise across multiple programming languages and modern frameworks while building hands-on experience using AI and agentic tools across the engineering lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to engineering solutions that solve complex customer and business problems.
• Support technical design, development, testing, integrations, and ongoing support.
• Participate in requirement analysis and component-level design.
• Maintain code quality, dependencies, architecture, and technical standards.
• Write high-quality, scalable and supportable code.
• Participate in code reviews.
• Support rapid experimentation and AI-built prototypes.
• Collaborate with product management, experience, and delivery teams.
• Apply AI and Agentic SSDLC practices.
• Use AI tools for code generation, review, testing, and documentation.
• Build domain-specific knowledge and translate business/user needs into technical specifications and code.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, Machine Learning, or related discipline.
• 3–5 years of experience with one or more of:
• Angular
• React
• NodeJS
• Python
• C#
• .NET
• Java
• SQL/NoSQL
• PyTorch
• TensorFlow
• LangChain
• LangGraph
• 1+ year building AI/ML applications.
• Hands-on GenAI exposure including:
• LLM integration
• OpenAI / Anthropic / open-source models
• RAG pipelines
• Prompt engineering
• Vector databases
• 1+ year cloud-native engineering experience with Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Exposure to Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, or Vertex AI.
• Understanding of OOP/OOD, data structures, algorithms and engineering practices.
• Exposure to Agile, DevSecOps, GitHub, SonarQube, MLflow or agentic AI frameworks is a plus.
• Ability to work in the local office a minimum of 3 days per week.
• 0–10% travel.