[Hiring] Software Engineer II, AI @AARP

Role Description

The Software Engineer II, AI works with cross-functional teams and customers to understand business requirements and translates them into technical specifications. Responsibilities include:

• Establishing a technical roadmap for the platform and/or capability strategy and lifecycle that considers value-based outcomes, costs to maintain, supportability, and performance.
• Ensuring sound integration, data, security, and business architecture design throughout all stages within the platform and/or capability lifecycle.
• Providing rapid delivery and development of technical solutions that align with business and/or platform desired outcomes.
• Troubleshooting and resolving technical issues related to platform or capability systems, solutions, and services.
• Innovating and driving continuous improvements of implementation methodology and technical service offerings based on customer or employee experiences and enterprise objectives.
• Participating in a Community of Interest for engineers across all capability and platform teams to share information and strengthen understanding of business needs and technology-based solutions.
• Developing and maintaining deep technical knowledge and expertise related to domain area systems, solutions, services, and applications.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 2+ years of experience with Generative AI concepts, including embeddings, large language models (LLMs), retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), vector databases, and tokenization.
• 3+ years of experience working with public cloud platforms, preferably Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• 4+ years of experience with DevOps pipelines, including Git-based repositories (e.g., GitHub, Bitbucket), static and dynamic code analysis, Infrastructure as Code (e.g., AWS CloudFormation), and deployment strategies such as blue/green deployments.
• 2+ years of experience with agentic systems, including various agent architectures, frameworks such as LangGraph, orchestration patterns, and building/hosting agents (e.g., orchestrator agents, agents as tools).
• 3+ years of experience architecting, designing, developing, deploying, and monitoring large-scale distributed and parallel systems using cloud-native technologies (e.g., AWS Lambda, EKS, S3).
• 4+ years of hands-on programming experience with languages such as Python, Java, Rust, SQL, and/or Node.js.

Requirements

• Regular and reliable job attendance.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Exhibit respect and understanding of others to maintain professional relationships.
• Independent judgment in evaluation options to make sound decisions.
• Home office environment with the ability to work effectively surrounded by moderate home environment noise.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits package including a 401(k).
• 100% company-funded pension plan.
• Health, dental, and vision plans.
• Life insurance.
• Paid time off to include company and individual holidays, vacation, sick, caregiving, and parental leave.
• Performance-based and peer-based recognition.
• Tuition reimbursement.