3 days ago
Base Salary
$209k - $313k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead architecture and engineering for autonomous network capabilities across AT&T’s Mobile Core and TM Forum Autonomous Network maturity levels.
- Define intent-driven and agentic architectures that connect AI agents with network functions, OSS platforms, observability systems, APIs, and automation tools.
- Design and deploy closed-loop, self-healing systems that detect conditions, determine corrective actions, execute changes, and validate outcomes.
- Architect telemetry, topology, event, and network-data pipelines, and apply network analytics and digital twins to predict and simulate network behavior.
- Develop and operate LLM and AI agents, including model selection, tuning, evaluation, tool integration, orchestration, and lifecycle management.
- Build AI-assisted testing and automation frameworks and establish policy, approval, rollback, explainability, auditability, and security controls.
- Perform technical troubleshooting and root cause analysis using logs, network KPIs, telemetry, and packet-level diagnostics.
- Influence supplier roadmaps, represent AT&T in TM Forum, 3GPP SA5, and ETSI ZSM initiatives, and mentor engineers across adopting teams.
Requirements
- Extensive experience in network automation, system architecture, AI/ML engineering, or telecom software engineering.
- Advanced knowledge of 5G Standalone Mobile Core technologies, protocols, and procedures, including HTTP/2 and mTLS.
- Demonstrated expertise in TM Forum Autonomous Networks, intent-driven network management, and closed-loop automation.
- Hands-on experience with LLMs, agentic AI architectures, AI agents, tool or function integration, guardrails, model evaluation, and production AI/ML systems.
- Hands-on development experience with Python and/or Go.
- Experience with GitOps for lifecycle and configuration management, Git-based engineering workflows, automated testing, debugging, and code management.
- Experience delivering telecom capabilities on cloud-native platforms and architecting highly available, scalable distributed systems.
- Understanding of network observability, telemetry, event processing, network topology, APIs, and data pipelines.
- Experience with AI and automation security controls, identity, least-privilege access, authentication, secrets management, and policy enforcement.
- Experience participating in or contributing to TM Forum, 3GPP, ETSI, or comparable telecommunications standards initiatives.
- Ability to lead complex initiatives across distributed engineering and operational organizations and influence suppliers and senior leadership.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage; 401(k); tuition reimbursement; paid parental and caregiver leave; disability and life insurance; and supplemental benefit programs.
- Adoption reimbursement, employee assistance and wellness programs, paid time off, holidays, and at least 28 vacation days annually based on date of hire.
- Employee discounts of up to 50% on eligible AT&T mobility plans, accessories, internet, fiber, and phone services, plus long-term grants and deferred compensation.
- Full-time regular role with a 40-hour workweek, performed onsite five days per week in Bothell, Washington; no relocation is offered.