eCornell Generative AI - Full Stack Developer Remote

**No VISA sponsorship is available for this position. **

Department

As Cornell Universitys online learning unit eCornell delivers online professional certificate courses to individuals and organizations around the world. Courses are personally developed by Cornell faculty with expertise in a wide range of topics including data analytics management marketing human resources leadership and STEM. Students learn in an interactive small cohort format to gain skills they can immediately apply in their organizations while earning a professional certificate from Cornell University. eCornell has offered online learning courses and certificate programs for 15 years to over 130000 students at more than 2000 companies.

The Opportunity:

In this fully remote position you as the Generative AI Full Stack Developerwill work with eCornells product management team software development team and internal and external stakeholders to maintain and enhance existing software and to design develop and deliver new software within the eCornell software stack using modern software engineering tools and practices.

The Full Stack Developer is tasked with the primary responsibility of integrations with eCornells systems such as our LMS Canvas Destiny Salesforce ETL and less of the typical full stack developer responsibilities in web app development. In addition Fullstack Developer works with the support team and endusers to troubleshoot and resolve customer and internally reported software defects and technical issues.

As a member of an agile squad the Full Stack developer adheres to practices and standards set by communities of practice and contributes to a culture of continuous improvement.

You are considered competitive for this position if you are:

• Technical Expertise in developing applications with Generative AI and LLMs such as GPT Claude or Gemini and demonstrated experience with Python.

• Excellent with followup and followthrough ability to work independently and make decisions with minimal supervision.

• Customercentric in your approach with strong interpersonal skills to build effective relationships with faculty staff and eCornell departments.

• Adaptable flexible and you exercise patience and curiosity in navigating complex issues with a high level of confidentiality and good judgment.

What You Will Do:

• Participate in fullcycle software development efforts from ideation through deployment in a dynamic and fastpaced business environment.

• Collaborate with product and design teams to translate user requirements into technical implementations.

• Develop and integrate Generative AI applications into our platform leveraging LLMs and related technologies.

• Support continuous innovation by integrating new features and optimizing existing functionalities.

• Recommend product revisions or enhancements based on user feedback.

• Document software to support collaborative development and ease of updates. Document design using Google docs Confluence.

• Perform system tuning optimization of information/data processing maintenance and support of the production environment as necessary

What You Will Need:

• Bachelors degree in CS or equivalent and 57 years of relevant application software development work experience in a fastpaced webbased software development environment or equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Proven expertise in developing applications with Generative AI and LLMs such as GPT Claude or Gemini.

• Proficiency with frameworks such as LangChain embedding workflows and vector databases.

• Experience with Python for backend development and tools like LangGraph and Agentic AI.

• Familiarity with RESTful APIs.

• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process.

• Understanding of issuetracking systems such as Jira.

• Experience in unit testing verification and validation.

• Proven ability to work be adaptive and resourceful in a dynamic fastpaced customerfocused work environment characterized by rapid change minimal lead times and multiple competing priorities.

• Excellent analytical organizational and communication (written and oral) skills; expert interpersonal skills; ability to build and maintain collaborative relationships with customers stakeholders and staff at all levels of the organization.

• Selfmotivated ability to work independently and as part of a team be adaptive to critical needs and share expertise as needed demonstrating accountability openness and transparency.

• Demonstrated aptitude to stay current on new and emerging technologies.

• Action and results oriented with a positive customer service attitude.

If you have all those things great! We have a few more things that we would prefer you to have but its ok if you dont.

• Bachelors/Masters degree in CS or equivalent.

• Experience with finetuning LLMs.

• Familiarity with OpenAI APIs and additional AI frameworks.

• Experience in education technology.

• Familiarity with Amazon Web Services is a significant plus.

**Sponsorship for employment visa is not available for this position**

Rewards and Benefits

• This position is based in Ithaca New York however the successful applicant may perform this role remotely anywhere within the United States. The New York Convenience of employer guidelines require New York State individual tax reporting and withholdings for this position. Additional individual state income tax filings may also be required if working temporarily outside New York State.

• Cornell receives national recognition as an awardwinning workplace for our health wellbeing sustainability and diversity initiatives.

• Our benefits programs include comprehensive health care options generous retirement contributions access to wellness programs and employee discounts with local and national retail brands. We invite you to follow this link to get more information about our benefits: this link to learn more about the Total Rewards of Working at Cornell: leave provisions include health and personal leave three weeks of vacation and 13 holidays: Martin Luther King Jr. Day Memorial Day Juneteenth Independence Day Labor Day Thanksgiving and the day after and an end of the year winter break from December 25January 1.

• Cornells impressive educational benefits include tuitionfree Extramural Study and Employee Degree Program tuition aid for external education and Cornell Childrens Tuition Assistance Program

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