2 months ago
Base Salary
$150k - $300k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect, build, and optimize production AI systems while maintaining a strong hands-on technical role.
- Design reliable agents and orchestration covering planning, tool use, memory, state, and permission-aware boundaries.
- Extract executable specifications from source code, metadata, tests, and runtime behavior and map them to Appian’s object model.
- Build semantic and dependency models and retrieval systems that provide accurate context across large application estates.
- Create evaluation and CI pipelines that gate quality and detect regressions.
- Use AI coding tools to accelerate development while maintaining software quality and correctness.
- Engineer reliability, latency, efficiency, and scale into enterprise systems.
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute technical documentation.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or a related technical or analytical discipline.
- 7+ years of relevant software development experience with a bachelor’s degree, or 5+ years of experience with a related master’s degree.
- Strong distributed-systems experience, including retries, idempotency, partial failure, long-running tasks, and recovery.
- Strong software engineering, data-pipeline, and observability skills with experience owning production services end to end.
- Experience using AI coding assistants and evaluating, coaching others on, and selectively applying AI-generated code in production.
- Excellent ability to communicate technical architectures verbally, visually, and in writing.
- Preferred: expertise in code search, repository intelligence, or developer tools.
- Preferred: experience modernizing legacy codebases and workflows.
- Preferred: experience with enterprise platforms such as Salesforce or ServiceNow.
Benefits
- Remote position in the US.
- 401(k) plan with company match, flexible time off, paid parental leave, medical, dental, and vision plans.
- Life insurance, disability insurance, wellness programs, flexible spending accounts, health savings account contributions, and employee assistance and mental health support.
- Learning and development resources, department training, mentorship, Appian University, skills-based training, and tuition reimbursement.
- Employee referral bonus program, employee stock purchase program, family-forming benefits, affinity groups, and possible equity awards.
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About Appian
Appian builds a low-code platform for process automation, case management, and data orchestration, used by large enterprises and government agencies to design and run mission-critical workflows. It sells subscriptions and services for cloud and on-premise deployments, spanning BPM, RPA, process mining, and AI-enabled capabilities. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in McLean, Virginia, Appian is a public company listed on NASDAQ.