Senior Software Engineer, AI Team (Oakland, CA)

About the role

The Senior Software Engineer will be part of the AI Innovation Team at Fictiv, a company reimagining manufacturing in an AI-first world. The team focuses on discovering, validating, and scaling new product capabilities across Fictiv and Misumi.

Responsibilities

• Discover and define high-leverage AI opportunities across manufacturing and supply chain workflows
• Build rapid prototypes using real-world company data to test new product ideas
• Develop and iterate on LLM-powered systems, focusing on usability, reliability, and impact
• Collaborate directly with customers and internal stakeholders to validate real-world use cases
• Transform validated concepts into scalable, production-ready systems with engineering partners
• Explore emerging AI models, tools, and frameworks to push the boundaries of what's possible
• Capture learnings, system designs, and experiment results to support long-term scaling
• Contribute to shaping the AI roadmap across Fictiv and Misumi

Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience
• Strong experience building and shipping LLM-based applications used in production
• Proficiency in modern development environments (TypeScript/JavaScript and AWS preferred)
• Hands-on experience with:
• Prompt design and iteration
• LLM evaluation and testing methodologies
• Guardrails, reliability patterns, and system design for AI applications
• A track record of designing experiments and using data to validate technical decisions
• Authorization to work in the U.S. without current or future sponsorship

Qualifications

• Nice to have: Experience building AI-first products end-to-end, comfort working across multiple languages, tools, and architectures, experience with large, unstructured, or messy datasets, background in applied machine learning or AI systems

Benefits

• Salary range: $160,000 – $200,000, depending on experience
• Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
• 401(k) plan
• Generous PTO and leave programs