[Hiring] Senior AI Engineer @Kuali

Role Description

Kuali's platform organization has moved its engineering practice up a level of abstraction, and Senior AI Engineers are the people who make that practice work at scale.

• Build software by directing AI coding agents.
• Frame the problem, architect the solution, and author the specification the agents work from — intent, constraints, interfaces, acceptance criteria, and the implementation and test plan.
• Engineer the context those agents reason over, orchestrate multi-agent workflows through build, test, and review, and verify every result against the spec.
• Continuously sharpen the system that produces the work: the reusable skills, instructions, and evaluation harnesses that make agent output reliable at enterprise scale.
• Accountable for the quality of both the software and the system that produces it.
• Own a significant subsystem or product domain.
• Set the architectural direction within it and define how agentic development is practiced on your team.
• Lead the design and delivery of AI-native product capabilities that universities depend on.
• Trusted to make consequential decisions with limited supervision.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in product ownership, business analysis, or software delivery.
• Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum principles and backlog management.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills across technical and non-technical teams.
• Ability to translate complex workflows into clear, actionable requirements.
• Passion for improving research administration processes and higher-education outcomes.

Requirements

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant ownership of production SaaS systems.
• Demonstrated mastery of agentic software development as a primary delivery practice, including designing reusable agent workflows, skills, and evaluation approaches.
• Deep proficiency across the modern web stack: JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Node.js, API design (REST and/or GraphQL), relational and document data stores.
• Strong distributed systems, cloud architecture (AWS), and CI/CD experience.
• Demonstrated ownership of production services, including on-call leadership and incident command.
• Track record of mentoring engineers.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Elixir, Kafka or comparable streaming technologies, and event-driven architecture.
• Experience shipping and operating LLM-backed product features at enterprise scale, including evaluation harnesses and guardrails.
• Experience in regulated environments (FERPA, SOC 2, TX-RAMP, HIPAA, FedRAMP, or similar).
• Multi-tenant enterprise SaaS at meaningful scale.
• Experience leading migrations or modernization of legacy systems.
• Familiarity with higher-education administrative systems.

Benefits

• Remote-first work.
• Top-of-the-line equipment of your choice to get your job done.
• A truly exceptional benefits package including full premium coverage for employee and dependent medical and dental care.
• 401(k) matching.
• Employee stock option plan.
• Paid Maternity/Parental leave.
• All the paid time off you need (just work it out with your manager).
• Encouragement and support in learning and improving your skill-sets.
• Employee resource groups and community events.