AI Engineer

Location: United States (Remote)
Work Type: Contract

About the role

As a Senior Software Engineer on the AI Engineering team, you will lead the design and implementation of production-grade tools and services that directly accelerate development velocity. This role involves taking cutting-edge AI capabilities and turning them into reliable, scalable products that developers across the organization use daily. Your technical leadership will shape how thousands of engineers write, review, and ship code.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture and implementation of production-grade AI developer tools used by thousands of engineers across major codebases.
• Drive technical direction for AI systems that enhance code quality and development workflows, including automated code review, intelligent testing, and semantic search.
• Design and build scalable, maintainable developer-facing tools across multiple modalities, such as CLI tools, build process integrations, services, and APIs.
• Stay connected to the evolving AI engineering landscape, evaluating and incorporating new techniques and frameworks.
• Pioneer the use of modern AI frameworks and agent architectures to solve real-world engineering challenges.
• Partner with development teams to identify strategic opportunities and validate solutions.
• Build measurement systems to track impact and continuously improve tool effectiveness.
• Collaborate with AI infrastructure teams to leverage and influence unified capabilities.
• Mentor engineers on the team, conduct code reviews, and raise the bar for technical excellence.
• Contribute to technical roadmap planning and help prioritize work based on engineering impact.

Requirements

• B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• 6+ years building production software systems and a track record of leading complex technical projects from conception to delivery.

Skills

• Strong proficiency in GoLang OR TypeScript + Node.JS
• Deep understanding of LLM APIs, request flows, and agent architectures.
• Expert-level experience with REST APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
• Proficiency with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot).
• Experience with version control systems (Perforce, Git) and CI/CD pipelines (Team City or similar).
• Proven ability to turn ambiguous problems into concrete technical solutions.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills.
• Experience mentoring other engineers and elevating team capabilities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building developer tools or internal platforms at scale.
• Familiarity with code analysis tools (tree-sitter, ASTs, static analysis).
• Experience with vector databases and semantic search systems.
• Deep understanding of agent architectures and orchestration frameworks.
• Contributions to open-source AI tooling projects.
• Experience with large monorepo codebases.
• Prior experience in a technical leadership role.

About the company

At the core of this company's success are talented, passionate people. The company prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether it's building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, innovation is constant. Being part of the team means striving to do right by the community and users, constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.

Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning.

Benefits

• Supplemental medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance plans.
• Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP).
• 401K program with company match after 12 months of tenure.
• Health Savings Account (HSA) on the HDHP plan.
• SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions.
• Corporate discount savings program and other discounts.
• On-demand training program.
• Access to certification prep, technical and leadership courses/books/seminars after 6+ months of tenure.
• Certification discounts and perks for associations including CompTIA and IIBA.
• Dedicated customer service team for consultants.
• Access to a certified Career Coach.