AI Engineer
IT Minds LLC · Lavista, WA · 5 mo ago
On-siteEngineeringFull-time
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and deploy AI-enabled services and agent based workflows
- Build and maintain API-driven backend services supporting AI powered applications
- Contribute to frontend components and user interfaces supporting AI workflows
- Implement multi-step AI workflows with tool usage, data retrieval, and external system integrations
- Integrate AI systems with enterprise data platforms and business systems
- Develop and maintain observability, logging, and monitoring for AI services
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business needs into technical solutions
- Ensure solutions meet security, compliance, and governance requirements
- Participate in architectural reviews and contribute to platform standards and best practices
Qualifications
- Required: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
- Required: 3+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Required: Experience building and operating backend APIs and services
- Required: Hands on experience with MCPs and AI workflows
- Required: Hands-on experience with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems
- Required: Proficiency with SQL and relational database design
- Required: Experience deploying and operating cloud-native applications in production environments
Preferred
- Prompt engineering experience
- Familiarity with Claude Agent SDK, Anthropic tools, or similar agent frameworks
- Experience with AI observability/tracing tools (e.g., LangFuse)
- Experience using Node.js ORMs such as Prisma or Drizzle
- Experience building APIs with Express, Fastify, or similar frameworks
- Familiarity with React and modern frontend practices
- Experience using Shadcn UI or similar component libraries
- Knowledge of DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with Azure Container Apps, Docker, containerized services, Vercel Sandboxes or similar Orchestration
- Experience with Azure Functions Durable Task Scheduler, Vercel Workflows or equivalents
- Experience with AI-assisted IDEs and Git-based workflows