Senior Software Developer - AI Implementation
Blue Origin2 months ago
Base Salary
$198k - $277k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own recurring maintenance for the internal AI platform, including dependency and model version management, continuous integration health, and release cuts.
- Build automated regression coverage for more than 30 production AI workflows and establish test suites for workflows currently verified manually.
- Monitor and remediate upstream data and schema drift across engineering, manufacturing, ERP, requirements-management, and data-warehouse systems.
- Implement machine-checkable guardrails for accuracy, safety, and data-handling requirements.
- Triage, disposition, and close user feedback while reporting backlog health, flow rates, and quality trends to senior leadership.
- Design, build, performance-test, validate, and release AI-assisted workflows for engineering, manufacturing, quality, and supply chain users.
- Fine-tune AI models when necessary and provide technical guidance, mentorship, and performance feedback to partner development teams.
- Contribute to AI strategy and roadmap planning and collaborate with engineers, technicians, and analysts to support data-driven decisions.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field.
- 10+ years of professional software development experience with significant production AI and machine-learning experience.
- Experience owning a production software product through its full sustaining lifecycle, including on-call or user-facing support.
- Experience building and operating production LLM-based or agentic applications, including prompt and context engineering, tool or function calling, enterprise-data retrieval, and evaluation of non-deterministic output.
- Deep understanding of AI/ML models, algorithms, and frameworks such as TensorFlow or PyTorch.
- Proficiency with SQL, Python, and Power Query; VBA familiarity is a plus.
- Experience with Git-based development, code review, CI/CD pipelines, and REST or GraphQL integrations with enterprise systems.
- Experience integrating AI solutions into large-scale software systems and infrastructure.
- Experience analyzing large datasets and tracking hardware across a part’s lifecycle is a plus.
- Strong communication, judgment, organizational, project-management, collaboration, and deadline-management skills.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, paid parental leave, short- and long-term disability, a 401(k) match of up to 5%, and an Education Support Program.
- Stock options are available to regular employees working at least 20 hours per week.
- Up to four weeks of paid time off per year based on scheduled hours and up to 14 company-paid holidays.
- Some employees may be eligible for discretionary benefits and bonuses based on role type and job level.
- U.S. citizenship or nationality, permanent residency, refugee status, or asylum status is required under export-control regulations, and background checks are required.
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About Blue Origin
Blue Origin designs and manufactures rocket engines, reusable launch vehicles, and lunar transport systems for commercial and government customers. Its products include the suborbital New Shepard, the in-development New Glenn orbital rocket, BE-4 engines (used on ULA’s Vulcan), and the Blue Moon lander; revenue comes from launch services, engine supply, and space systems contracts, including a NASA Human Landing System award. Founded in 2000 by Jeff Bezos, the company is headquartered in Kent, Washington.