Software Engineer, AI Platform
Location: Irving, Texas
Country: United States
Category: Technology
Workplace Location: Onsite
Employment Type: Contract
Posted Date: June 3, 2026
Job ID: 648099
Job Description
Software Engineer, AI Platform
Location: Irving Texas
Length: 6-month contract
Pay: $63/hr - $68/hr (DOE)
As a Software Engineer, AI Platform - Contract, you'll help build and improve internal platform capabilities that enable teams to use AI services safely, reliably, and at scale. This role blends full-stack product development with platform engineering: building user experiences, backend APIs and services, cloud integrations, observability workflows, and AI provider integrations across AWS and emerging GCP initiatives.
You'll work hands-on with engineers and platform partners to deliver practical tooling for API access, model and provider integration, usage visibility, governance workflows, and secure developer onboarding. The ideal candidate is a strong mid-level engineer who is comfortable moving across frontend, backend, and cloud/platform concerns in an evolving technical space.
Qualifications:
- Required Qualifications
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Hands-on experience building production applications with TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js, React or similar frontend frameworks, HTML, and CSS.
- Experience building or integrating backend services, REST APIs, and service-to-service workflows.
- Working knowledge of AWS services and cloud-native deployment patterns.
- Experience with databases and caching systems such as PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Redis, or similar technologies.
- Familiarity with Docker, CI/CD, Git, automated testing, and modern software delivery practices.
- Ability to work across frontend, backend, and platform concerns in an ambiguous, evolving product area.
- Interest in AI/GenAI systems, API platforms, governance, observability, and secure enterprise software.
- AI, Platform, and Cloud Experience
- Experience integrating with AI providers such as AWS Bedrock, OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure OpenAI, Google Gemini, or similar services.
- Familiarity with model APIs, embeddings, streaming responses, prompt/response handling, or AI application patterns.
- Understanding of API gateway and platform concepts such as authentication, quotas, rate limits, routing, policy enforcement, developer onboarding, and usage tracking.
- Experience with observability tooling, logs, traces, metrics, audit events, or cost and usage reporting.
- Exposure to AWS platform services such as Lambda, ECS, EKS, API Gateway, S3, CloudWatch, Secrets Manager, RDS, DynamoDB, or related services.
- Exposure to GCP services such as Cloud Run, GKE, IAM, networking, Apigee X, or API management is valuable.
- Preferred Qualifications
- Experience building Python services or tooling with FastAPI, Pydantic, async/httpx, pytest, or modern packaging workflows.
- Experience using Python with AI provider SDKs, embeddings/vector workflows, agent frameworks, or model evaluation tooling.
- Experience with Apigee X or other enterprise API gateway platforms.
- Experience with Kubernetes, EKS, GKE, or container orchestration in production environments.
- Experience with platform engineering, internal developer platforms, SDKs, API products, or shared service platforms.
- Familiarity with OpenAI-compatible APIs, LangChain, agent frameworks, AI evaluation, prompt workflows, or guardrail concepts.
- Experience with Go, Erlang, or Elixir.
- Experience in retail, e-commerce, high-transaction systems, or enterprise integration environments.
- Comfort working with security, privacy, governance, and compliance-oriented requirements.
Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain full-stack platform features across user-facing workflows, backend APIs, and supporting services.
- Develop clean, reliable services using TypeScript, Node.js, Python and modern API patterns.
- Contribute to user experiences using React ecosystem tools and modern frontend practices.
- Integrate with AI providers and platform services, including model APIs, embeddings, streaming responses, and provider abstraction patterns.
- Support cloud-native delivery on AWS, with growing collaboration around GCP-based initiatives.
- Help implement secure API access, authorization, rate limits, routing, usage tracking, and observability workflows.
- Work with product, platform, security, and DevOps partners to turn ambiguous requirements into practical implementation plans.
- Write maintainable code, tests, documentation, and operational notes that help the platform scale beyond initial pilots.
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