Associate AI Software Engineer

About the role

We're looking for Associate AI Engineers to join our Central AI team. This role is perfect for someone smart and innovative who is eager to apply what they've learned in school (or internships) and grow into an AI-focused career path. Working in our Newark office, you'll collaborate with various departments and teams to develop and deploy next-generation AI tools that power smarter business decisions.

Responsibilities

• Assist in Design and Documentation – Support senior team members by understanding business and product requirements, helping to determine possible solutions, documenting designs or simple solutions, and clearly communicating updates and technical details within the team.
• Development of AI Enhanced Products – Develop internal and client facing solutions, leveraging Agentic AI to produce highly automated systems that may perform complex workflows through AI reasoning, acting, observing, planning, and self-refining.
• Supporting & Operationalization - Learn to deploy and validate your code in integration and production environments using standard build and merge processes. Gain exposure to key DevOps tools within our infrastructure, including basic logging, monitoring, and release workflows.
• Development Support – Assist in troubleshooting, investigating issues, and applying fixes to ensure smooth operation of applications and services.

Requirements

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Applied Mathematics, (or any other engineering discipline)
• Strong programming skills with an object-oriented approach and understanding of security best practices.
• Experience with at least one modern programming language and its ecosystem.
• Practical experience working with generative AI models such as GPT, Claude, and similar LLMs.
• Experience with coding agents, such as Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, and Gemini CLI.
• Adaptability & Learning Mindset - Willingness and ability to quickly learn and adapt to new technologies, frameworks, and tools as needed.
• Open to working across the stack to support the development of AI-powered solutions.
• Comfortable stepping beyond core skill sets to contribute wherever needed in the AI application lifecycle.
• Communication Skills - Strong verbal and written communication skills to effectively collaborate with team members, understand business requirements, and clearly document solutions and updates.

Qualifications

• Version control system - Experience with version control systems like Git, including basic workflows such as branching and merge requests.
• Unit Testing - Experience writing and running automated tests with any testing framework to ensure code quality and reliability.
• Able to catch bugs early through strong unit testing habits.
• Able to craft prompts to drive contextually relevant outputs and build basic agentic workflows (e.g., tool usage, multi-step reasoning, or dynamic context handling).
• Experience integrating LLM APIs to build AI-powered features and workflows.

Skills

• Generative AI, Prompt Engineering & Agentic AI

Benefits

• Health insurance options such as medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Flexible spending accounts (FSA) for medical and dependent care
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance
• Life and AD&D insurance
• 401(k) retirement savings plan with a company match
• Paid time off (PTO)
• Paid holidays
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and well-being coaching services
• Voluntary benefits such as home, auto and pet insurance, and discounted legal and financial services

Pay

The compensation for this role starts at $60k and will depend on your skills, qualifications, and experience.

Schedule

Full-time position based in Newark, NJ.