Applied AI Engineer

What You Need:

• AI & Application Development
• Hands-on experience owning or extending LLM-powered platforms, including RAG pipeline development, prompt engineering, and integrating LLM APIs into production internal systems.
• Expert-level knowledge of AI infrastructure, including model serving, inference optimization, GPU/CPU resource management, and MLOps pipelines.
• Experience designing and building internal API layers or shared platform services that multiple teams and systems publish to and consume from.
• Proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript for building integrations, scripts, and lightweight internal services.
• Experience working with REST APIs and building integrations across a diverse internal tooling ecosystem.
• Cloud & Infrastructure
• Strong AWS experience: required proficiency in core services (EC2, ECS/EKS, S3, RDS, Lambda, IAM, VPC) and experience architecting and operating production workloads on AWS.
• Deep Docker and Kubernetes expertise: required hands-on experience containerizing applications, writing Dockerfiles, managing multi-container deployments, and orchestrating workloads with Kubernetes (EKS or self-managed).
• Deep Terraform and Ansible expertise: required experience writing and maintaining Terraform modules for cloud infrastructure, and using Ansible for configuration management and automation.
• Experience with GitHub for version control, pull request workflows, branching strategies, and CI/CD integration.
• Experience with Artifactory for artifact management, including publishing and consuming build artifacts, Docker images, and package registries.
• Mindset & Collaboration
• An experimental mindset: comfortable inheriting imperfect systems, iterating quickly, and improving as you go.
• Ability to evaluate AI capabilities through a business lens, understanding not just what’s possible but what creates real value for internal teams and the organization.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to explain AI concepts and tradeoffs to non-technical stakeholders.
• A collaborative, team-first approach with a genuine curiosity about where AI is headed.
• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent hands-on experience.

Bonus Points:

• Experience with agentic frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, or similar.
• Familiarity with corporate IT or infrastructure engineering environments, understanding how enterprise platforms around identity, monitoring, and automation operate.
• Background building MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers or tools that extend AI agent capabilities.
• Experience with vector databases (e.g., Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector) and semantic search.
• Experience building or maintaining internal developer platforms, artifact registries, or shared API services.

The Whole Person Promise:

At Bandwidth, we’re pretty proud of our corporate culture, which is rooted in our “Whole Person Promise.” We promise all employees that they can have meaningful work AND a full life, and we provide a work environment geared toward enriching your body, mind, and spirit. How do we do that? Well…

• 100% company-paid Medical, Vision, & Dental coverage for you and your family with low deductibles and low out-of-pocket expenses.
• All new hires receive four weeks of PTO.
• PTO Embargo. When you take time off (of any kind!) you’re embargoed from working. Bandmates and managers are not allowed to interrupt your PTO – not even with email.
• Additional PTO can be earned throughout the year through volunteer hours and Bandwidth challenges.
• “Mahalo moments” program grants additional time off for life’s most important moments like graduations, buying a first home, getting married, wedding anniversaries (every five years), and the birth of a grandchild.
• 90-Minute Workout Lunches and unlimited meetings with our very own nutritionist.

Are you excited about the position and its responsibilities, but not sure if you’re 100% qualified? Do you feel you can work to help us crush the mission? If you answered ‘yes’ to both of these questions, we encourage you to apply! You won’t want to miss the opportunity to be a part of the BAND.

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