Sr. Software Engineer I, Applied AI
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Job Location:
Seattle, OR - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 141000 - 225600
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Join Axon and be a Force for Good.
At Axon were on a mission to Protect Life. Were explorers pursuing societys most critical safety and justice issues with our ecosystem of devices and cloud software. Like our products we work better together. We connect with candor and care seeking out diverse perspectives from our customers communities and each other.
Life at Axon is fast-paced challenging and meaningful. Here youll take ownership and drive real change. Constantly grow as you work hard for a mission that matters at a company where you matter.
Sr SWE -AI
Senior Software Engineer AI Platform (Corporate AI Team)
Team & Role Overview
Axons Corporate AI Team sits within the Enterprise Data organization and focuses on internal-facing AI solutions that help Axon employees do more highvalue work with less manual effort. The team builds and operates Cortex Axons internal AI platform that provides GPTclass models chat assistants and secure integrations with systems like Quip Jira Slack Microsoft 365 Snowflake and more.
Were looking for a Senior Software Engineer AI Platform to help design build and scale this this role youll:
- Own core services and integrations that power AI experiences for thousands of Axon employees.
- Collaborate with Corporate AI Data Engineering and business teams to turn real workflows into secure reliable AIpowered tools.
- Help define best practices and patterns for building productiongrade LLM and agentic workloads at Axon.
This is a handson senior IC roleyoull spend most of your time designing coding and operating production systems not managing people.
What Youll Do
Build and Evolve the AI Platform
- Design build and operate services that power Axons internal AI platform (Cortex) including chat experiences agents and integrations with enterprise systems.
- Implement and standardize patterns for deploying AIdriven applications (APIs web services workflows agents) across Axons cloud environments.
- Own and extend connectors and MCP integrations (e.g. Jira Quip Slack M365 Snowflake) that allow LLMs to safely read and write data in Axon systems.
- Measure and improve reliability latency and cost for AI workloads using telemetry and feedback from real users.
Deployment Integration and Reliability
- Drive the endtoend lifecycle of new AI featuresfrom prototype to hardened production service (design implementation testing rollout and operations).
- Evaluate new AI services (e.g. OpenAI AWS Bedrock Azure ML) for fit performance and cost; recommend and implement the right options for each use case.
- Implement monitoring alerting and auditing for AI services ensuring we can trace usage detect anomalies and keep systems healthy in production.
Enablement Best Practices and Architecture
- Help define and document best practices for GPT/LLM solution development including prompt engineering RAG patterns agentic workflows and safe tool use.
- Partner with Corporate AI and Enterprise Architects to shape reference architectures for AIenabled apps and workflows (scalability resiliency observability data access).
- Contribute to internal starter kits training content and templates that help other engineers and analysts build on the platform effectively.
Security Governance and Responsible AI
- Implement and maintain secure patterns for API key management secrets and access to models and data sources aligned with Axons security and compliance standards.
- Work with Data Security and Governance partners to operationalize responsible AI guardrailse.g. model selection data minimization logging and usage controls.
- Ensure that new capabilities respect permissions auditing and policy requirements across systems like Jira Quip Slack M365 and Snowflake.
Collaboration and Communication
- Collaborate closely with Data Engineering Solution Architecture and business teams (Finance Sales Operations etc.) to turn real workflows into repeatable AI solutions.
- Clearly communicate design decisions tradeoffs and status to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
- Participate in brainstorming and discovery sessions to identify big dumb problems worth solving with AI and automation.
What You Bring
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field or equivalent practical experience.
- 4 years of professional software engineering experience including building and operating production services or platforms.
- Strong proficiency in at least one of: Python TypeScript/JavaScript or Java.
- Experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS Azure or GCP) and comfort working with cloudnative services (functions containers managed databases queues storage).
- Solid understanding of web service fundamentals (APIs authentication/authorization observability CI/CD) and how to build reliable maintainable systems.
- Demonstrated interest in AI/ML and LLMsfor example integrating with OpenAI Bedrock or similar APIs; building GPTstyle apps; or using AIassisted development tools.
- Basic understanding of security best practices (secrets management leastprivilege access audit logging) and eagerness to deepen this in the context of AI platforms.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills with comfort working in a fastmoving experimental environment.
Preferred Experience
You dont need all of these but experience in several of the following will help you ramp quickly:
- Handson work with LLM platforms and tools such as OpenAI (ChatGPT / APIs) AWS Bedrock Azure OpenAI or Azure ML Studio.
- Experience integrating with enterprise systems like Jira Confluence/Quip Slack M365 Salesforce or Snowflakeespecially via APIs or connectors.
- Familiarity with RAG (RetrievalAugmented Generation) semantic search or vector stores in production contexts.
- Exposure to DevOps / platform engineering: Terraform or similar IaC GitHub Actions or other CI/CD systems containerization (Docker Kubernetes) and application monitoring stacks.
- Experience building internal platforms or selfservice tools used by multiple teams.
- Participation in enablement activities (internal trainings office hours documentation or community programs like Axons Champions Circle) is a plus.
Axon is a total compensation company meaning compensation is made up of base pay bonus and stock awards. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors such as: level function training transferable skills work experience business needs geographic market and often a combination of all these factors. Our benefits offer an array of options to help support you physically financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. To see more details on our benefits offerings please visit Pay Range
$141000 - $225600 USD
Dont meet every single requirement Thats ok. At Axon we Aim Far. We think big with a long-term view because we want to reinvent the world to be a safer better place. We are also committed to building diverse teams that reflect the communities we serve.
Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they check every box in the job description. If youre excited about this role and our mission to Protect Life but your experience doesnt align perfectly with every qualification listed here we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
Important Notes
The above job description is not intended as nor should it be construed as exhaustive of all duties responsibilities skills efforts or working conditions associated with this job. The job description may change or be supplemented at any time in accordance with business needs and conditions.
Some roles may also require legal eligibility to work in a firearms environment.
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Axons mission is to Protect Life and is committed to the well-being and safety of its employees as well as Axons impact on the environment. All Axon employees must be aware of and committed to the appropriate environmental health and safety regulations policies and procedures. Axon employees are empowered to report safety concerns as they arise and activities potentially impacting the environment.
We are an equal opportunity employer that promotes justice advances equity values diversity and fosters inclusion. Were committed to hiring the best talent regardless of race creed color ancestry religion sex (including pregnancy) national origin sexual orientation age citizenship status marital status disability gender identity genetic information veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws regulations and ordinances and empowering all of our employees so they can do their best work. If you have a disability or special need that requires assistance or accommodation during the application or the recruiting process please email Please note that this email address is for accommodation purposes only. Axon will not respond to inquiries for other purposes.
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Senior IC
About Company
The Axon Network connects people, devices, and apps to protect life in all regards. From our TASER smart weapons, to police body cameras, to our industry-leading cloud-based evidence management software, we are the world’s premier public safety company and are committed to delivering ... View more
