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Compunnel, Inc.
AI Engineer
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What they do
An Artificial Intelligence Engineer develops, tests, and deploys artificial intelligence models. May work closely with data software engineers and data professionals to train and implement AI models into existing systems or develop new applications.
$125,739 / year median in Texas
Job Description
Job Summary We are seeking an AI Engineer with demonstrated experience delivering enterprise-scale AI solutions from concept through production. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience building and deploying autonomous and agentic AI systems, with strong expertise in Python, artificial intelligence, security, architecture, and production engineering. This role requires end-to-end ownership, strong understanding of token optimization, secure-by-design practices, and the ability to translate business requirements into scalable AI solutions with measurable business outcomes. Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, and deploy AI-powered capabilities across the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
- Build and deploy autonomous and agentic AI systems for enterprise-scale production environments.
- Develop Spec Driven Development workflows that translate well-formed specifications into secure and verifiable implementations.
- Implement guardrails, policy enforcement, and verification mechanisms for AI-generated code and AI-assisted development.
- Develop developer-assist and verification capabilities that perform automated security checks, including design reviews, dependency and software supply-chain analysis, static and dynamic analysis orchestration, and release audit support.
- Integrate AI solutions with enterprise systems including source control, CI/CD, ticketing, security scanning, identity platforms, and internal applications using APIs, webhooks, and protocols such as MCP (Model Context Protocol).
- Partner with engineering, security, product, and leadership stakeholders to define requirements, evaluate technical trade-offs, and support solution adoption.
- Apply sound architecture and systems design practices, including service boundaries, data modeling, secure defaults, observability, and extensibility.
- Design and operate agentic systems responsibly and efficiently, including agent loops, sub-agent orchestration, context management, and token budgeting.
- Optimize AI workloads for cost, latency, token consumption, performance, and scalability.
- Evaluate emerging AI technologies including agentic frameworks, tool use, agentic retrieval, memory systems, structured outputs, evaluation frameworks, and LLMOps.
- Establish evaluation and quality practices for AI outputs, measuring accuracy, reliability, safety, and business impact.
- Apply secure-by-design and secure-by-default practices throughout AI solution development and deployment.
- Contribute to team enablement through documentation, demonstrations, reusable patterns, mentoring, and knowledge sharing.
- Demonstrate end-to-end ownership across requirements analysis, architecture, implementation, deployment, adoption, and ongoing improvement. Required Qualifications
- Demonstrated experience developing and deploying AI-based solutions in production environments with measurable business or operational impact.
- Enterprise-scale experience building and deploying autonomous or agentic AI systems in production.
- Strong programming proficiency in Python and familiarity with TypeScript/JavaScript, Go, or similar programming languages.
- Strong understanding of artificial intelligence and modern AI/LLM development.
- Hands-on experience with context engineering, including agentic retrieval and search, memory architectures, enterprise data grounding, and structured outputs.
- Hands-on experience with agentic system design, including agent loops, multi-agent and sub-agent orchestration, and tool/function calling.
- Strong understanding of context window management and token budgeting, including cost and latency optimization for production workloads.
- Experience evaluating AI system quality, reliability, safety, and business impact.
- Solid understanding of software architecture and systems design, including API design, event-driven patterns, and scalable data modeling.
- Experience developing or deploying applications with large-scale impact, such as broad user adoption, high transaction volumes, or organization-wide implementations.
- Experience integrating AI solutions with multiple enterprise systems and platforms using REST/GraphQL APIs, CI/CD pipelines, cloud services, and enterprise tooling.
- Strong understanding of application and AI security, including secure development practices, security controls, guardrails, and enterprise security requirements.
- Experience with Security Harness Engineering or comparable security engineering practices for AI-enabled development.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently across the full delivery lifecycle with accountability for technical outcomes and business results.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to engineering, security, leadership, and business stakeholders. Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with DevSecOps practices.
- Experience with threat modeling and application security.
- Experience designing and implementing AI security guardrails and policy enforcement mechanisms.
- Experience with MCP (Model Context Protocol) integrations.
- Experience with LLMOps and AI evaluation frameworks.
- Experience with AI agent frameworks, agentic retrieval, and memory systems.
- Experience developing reusable AI engineering patterns and enterprise enablement frameworks.