AI Automation Engineer-SRE Focus (Early Career)

AI Automation Engineer-SRE Focus (Early Career)

Focus: Generative AI Agentic AI Automation & Reliability Engineering

Role Overview

Were hiring an earlycareer AI Automation Engineer to help build the next generation of AIdriven automation and reliability platforms. This role is ideal for a recent graduate from a top Computer Science or Computer Engineering program who has very strong handson experience with AI and Generative AI through internships research labs or realworld projects.

Youll work at the intersection of Generative AI Agentic AI automation and reliability engineering building systems that detect issues reason about them and take actionoften autonomously. Think AI agents selfhealing systems intelligent runbooks and automated incident response at real enterprise scale.

This is a great role if you love:

• Applying AI to real production problems

• Building systems that think reason and act

• Learning SRE and platform engineering handson with strong mentorship

What Youll Do

• Build Generative AI and Agentic AI solutions that automate system monitoring incident analysis and remediation

• Develop AIpowered assistants and runbooks that guide engineers during incidents

• Create autonomous workflows that analyze logs metrics and events and take corrective actions

• Write clean productionready automation code (Python scripts APIs)

• Partner with engineers to improve system reliability performance and observability

• Learn core SRE fundamentals: reliability monitoring incident response and postmortems

What Youll Bring

Experience

• 2 years of experience (can include internships coops research and strong project work.

• At least 1-2 internships and/or co-ops required. Hands on work
  experience is essential.

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering or related field
  

AI & Engineering Skills (Must Have)

• Very strong experience with AI and Generative AI

  • LLMs prompt engineering embeddings agents or AI automation projects

• Handson coding experience in Python (or similar language)

• Experience building or experimenting with:

  • AI agents or autonomous workflows

  • AIpowered tools bots or decision systems

• Tech Stack

  • Core programming

    • Python SQL Java/Scala/JavaScript Git GitHub VSCode
      

  • Data Analysis

    • NumPy
      

  • Autonomous agents

    • LangChain OpenAI APIs/Azure OpenAI MCP
      

  • Data Engineering

    • Snowflake Kafka Airflow
      

  • Database

    • Oracle PostgreSQL
      

  • Monitoring

    • ELK Stack Grafana Prometheus
      

  • Collaboration: Jeera Microsoft Teams

Nice to Have (Not Required)

• Exposure to cloud platforms containers or Oracle EBS and/or Oracle Fusion Cloud or DevOps tools

• Familiarity with logs metrics or monitoring concepts

• Experience using AI for automation reliability or system analysis

Why This Role Is Different

• Youll work on real AI systems in production not demos

• Strong focus on learning mentorship and growth

• Opportunity to shape how AI automates and improves complex systems

• Direct impact using cuttingedge Generative and Agentic AI

Our Senior System Engineering earns between$143800-$215800 USD Annual not to mention all the other amazing rewards that working at AT&T offers. Individual starting salary within this range may depend on geography experience expertise and education/training.

Joining our team comes with amazing perks and benefits:

• Medical/Dental/Vision coverage

• 401(k) plan

• Tuition reimbursement program

• Paid Time Off and Holidays (based on date of hire at least 23 days of vacation each year and 9 company-designated holidays)

• Paid Parental Leave

• Paid Caregiver Leave

• Additional sick leave beyond what state and local law require may be available but is unprotected

• Adoption Reimbursement

• Disability Benefits (short term and long term)

• Life and Accidental Death Insurance

• Supplemental benefit programs: critical illness/accident hospital indemnity/group legal

• Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)

• Extensive employee wellness programs

• Employee discounts up to 50% off on eligible AT&T mobility plans and accessories

• AT&T internet (and fiber where available) and AT&T phone.
  
  This position requires office presence of a minimum of 5 days per week and is only located in the location(s) posted. No relocation is offered.

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It is the policy of AT&T to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age color national origin citizenship status physical or mental disability race religion creed gender sex sexual orientation gender identity and/or expression genetic information marital status status with regard to public assistance veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local addition AT&T will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.AT&T is a fair chance employer and does not initiate a background check until an offer is made.