2 months ago
Base Salary
$150k - $300k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect, build, and optimize production AI systems while maintaining a hands-on technical role.
- Design reliable agents and orchestration with planning, tool use, memory, state, and permission-aware boundaries.
- Extract requirements and executable specifications from source code, metadata, tests, and runtime behavior.
- Build semantic and dependency models plus retrieval systems for application intelligence.
- Develop evaluation and CI pipelines that validate quality and detect regressions.
- Engineer reliability, latency, efficiency, and scalability into enterprise systems.
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to technical documentation and engineering practices.
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 with a master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- 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.
- Exceptional ability to communicate technical architectures verbally, visually, and in writing.
- Preferred experience in code search, repository intelligence, developer tools, legacy codebase or workflow modernization, Salesforce, or ServiceNow.
Benefits
- 401(k) plan with company match, flexible time off, paid parental leave, medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
- Wellness programs, flexible spending accounts, health savings account contributions, employee referral bonuses, and learning and development resources.
- Tuition reimbursement, Appian University training, mentorship, a First-Friend onboarding program, affinity groups, and other growth opportunities.
- Employee Assistance Program, mental health support, wellness dollars, family-forming benefits, an Employee Stock Purchase Program, and retirement or pension benefits may be available depending on country.
- The role is based in McLean, Virginia and requires working in the office five days per week.
- Certain positions may be eligible for equity awards and a discretionary performance bonus.
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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.