- Only qualified AI Engineer candidates located near Round Rock, TX are to be considered due to the position requiring an onsite presence
Required Education:
- Bachelor's in computer science or a related field, or equivalent practical.
Preferred Education:
- Master's degree in computer science or a related field
Required Skills, Experience & Abilities:
- Senior level Software Engineer with 8+ years' experience.
- Must have enterprise scalability experience with previous well-known company.
- Must have security experience, specifically security harness engineering experience.
- Must have enterprise scalability, Security Harness Engineering, and hands-on AI software engineering experience.
- Demonstrated experience developing and deploying AI-based solutions in production environments, with measurable business or operational impact
- Strong programming proficiency (e.g., Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, Go, or similar) and adherence to software engineering best practices, including testing, code quality, and maintainability
- Hands-on experience with modern AI/LLM development, including
- Context engineering
- designing what informs the model's context window, including agentic retrieval and search, memory architectures, grounding in enterprise data, and structured outputs
- Agentic system design
- agent loop engineering, multi-agent and sub-agent orchestration, and tool/function calling
- Context window management and token budgeting, including cost and latency optimization for production workloads
- Evaluation of AI system quality, reliability, and safety
- Solid understanding of software architecture and systems design, including API design, event-driven patterns, and data modeling for scalability and extensibility
- Experience developing and/or deploying applications with large-scale impact (broad user base, high transaction volume, or organization-wide adoption)
- Experience integrating with multiple systems and platforms (REST/GraphQL APIs, CI/CD pipelines, cloud services, enterprise tooling)
- Demonstrated ability to work independently across the full delivery lifecycle
- requirements analysis, solution design, implementation, deployment, and stakeholder engagement
- with accountability for results
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to convey technical concepts to both engineering and business audiences
- Working knowledge of secure development practices and experience designing solutions that meet enterprise security and compliance requirements
Desired Skills, Experience & Abilities:
- Experience applying AI within a security domain
- application security, DevSecOps, code analysis, threat modeling, firmware security or software supply-chain security
- Familiarity with secure-by-design / secure-by-default principles and relevant frameworks (e.
g., OWASP, including the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications;
NIST SSDF
)
- Experience with MCP (Model Context Protocol), building agent skills and tools, or extending AI coding assistants (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Devin)
- Experience with AI evaluation frameworks, guardrails, prompt/response caching strategies, and LLMOps in production
Role:
Principal-level AI software engineer who builds production-ready AI solutions that make the software development lifecycle more secure and automated.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and deploy AI-powered capabilities across the SDLC, including
- Spec Driven Development workflows that support the translation of well-formed specifications into secure, verifiable implementations
- Assurance of AI-generated code
- guardrails, policy enforcement, and verification for code produced by AI assistants and agents
- SDLC skills and agent tooling
- developer-assist skills as well as verification skills that perform automated security checks (design review, dependency and supply-chain analysis, static/dynamic analysis orchestration, release audit support)
- Integrate solutions with enterprise systems
- source control, CI/CD, ticketing, security scanning, identity, and internal platforms
- through APIs, webhooks, and protocols such as MCP (Model Context Protocol)
- Partner with engineering, security, product, and leadership stakeholders to define requirements, evaluate trade-offs, and support solution adoption
- Apply sound architecture and systems design practices: well-defined service boundaries, appropriate data models, secure defaults, observability, and extensibility
- Only those lawfully authorized to work in the designated country associated with the position will be considered.
- Please note that all Position start dates and duration are estimates and may be reduced or lengthened based upon a client's business needs and requirements.
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