
AI Engineer | Atlanta - USA
Photon · United States
- IT Services & Consulting
- 10,001+ employees
- Austin, Texas
Weak hiring record · median 267 days open
All reasons
- 87% of this employer's openings are over 60 days old
In its favour
- Still listed on the employer's own board
AI Engineer
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including strong hands-on development in JavaScript/TypeScript, with recent experience building, enhancing, and supporting Generative AI/LLM-based applications in production environments.
- Experience developing, enhancing, and supporting production-grade enterprise applications or platforms.
- Hands-on experience building Generative AI / LLM-based applications and capabilities.
- Experience integrating applications with Large Language Models (LLMs), AI services, and enterprise APIs.
- Understanding of key GenAI concepts including:
- Prompt engineering
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
- AI agents and agentic workflows
- Tool/function calling
- Context and conversation management
- Model evaluation and monitoring
- Experience building and consuming REST APIs and integrating with enterprise systems and data sources.
- Ability to troubleshoot complex production issues across application, integration, AI/model, and platform layers.
- Experience with modern software engineering practices including source control, automated testing, CI/CD, monitoring, and production deployments.
- Understanding of security, authentication, authorization, data privacy, and responsible AI considerations for enterprise AI applications.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working on an enterprise AI platform or shared GenAI platform.
- Experience developing AI applications using JavaScript/TypeScript-based frameworks and SDKs.
- Experience building or supporting AI agents and multi-step AI workflows.
- Experience with RAG, embeddings, semantic search, or enterprise knowledge retrieval.
- Familiarity with AI observability, model evaluation, prompt/version management, usage monitoring, and cost optimization.
- Experience integrating AI capabilities with multiple enterprise applications and APIs.
- Familiarity with cloud-based AI services and foundation models.
- Experience supporting business-critical applications in a production environment.
Core Skills
JavaScript / TypeScript | Generative AI | LLM Integration | AI Agents | RAG | API Development & Integration | Prompt Engineering | Production Support | AI Observability | Enterprise Application Development
Compensation, Benefits and Duration
Minimum Compensation
USD 50,000
Maximum Compensation
USD 175,000
Compensation is based on actual experience and qualifications of the candidate. The above is a reasonable and a good faith estimate for the role.
Medical, vision, and dental benefits, 401k retirement plan, variable pay/incentives, paid time off, and paid holidays are available for full-time employees.
This position is available for independent contractors
No applications will be considered if received more than 120 days after the date of this post.
Skills
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- Generative AI
- LLM
- Azure AI Services
- Prompt Engineering
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation
- Embeddings
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