AI Software Engineer Job Description Template

The AI software engineer builds production software where models are a component among many. The role weights software engineering more heavily than modeling, covering the services, data flow, reliability and testing around AI features. It suits engineers who want to work with AI without the work becoming exclusively about models.

Typical Duties and Responsibilities

• Build production services incorporating AI model capabilities
• Design APIs and data flows around model inference
• Implement caching, batching and fallback behavior
• Write tests that cover non deterministic components sensibly
• Build observability for AI features including quality signals
• Manage integration with model providers and handle their failures
• Optimize cost through routing, caching and model selection
• Support incident response for AI feature failures
• Collaborate with machine learning colleagues on model integration
• Document behavior, limitations and operational procedures

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field

Required Skills and Experience

• 3+ years of production software engineering
• Strong backend development skills
• Experience integrating machine learning models into applications
• Ability to test systems with non deterministic behavior
• Understanding of caching, rate limiting and graceful degradation
• Good observability and operational practice
• Cost awareness in system design
• Clear technical communication

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with model serving infrastructure
• Familiarity with vector databases