Applications Integration Engineer
Kairos Power28 days ago
Oak Ridge, TN, USAEntry Level / Mid Level
H1B sponsor
Responsibilities
- Troubleshoot application defects, integration failures, API and data-flow issues across connected enterprise systems.
- Validate application behavior and outputs against operational requirements, source data, acceptance criteria, and human approval controls.
- Build AI-enabled applications, RAG pipelines, agents, workflows, dashboards, and structured outputs for reactor build and operations use cases.
- Integrate applications with approved APIs, MCP servers, model gateways, MES, PLM, ERP, issue-tracking systems, schedules, and other enterprise capabilities.
- Implement testing, evaluation, error handling, source traceability, observability, reliability monitoring, and data-quality remediation.
- Prototype solutions with operational users, incorporate field feedback, and identify high-value operational problems.
- Collaborate with Enterprise AI, Infosec, IT, Build Engineering, Operations Engineering, technicians, and organizational leaders.
- Enable non-software engineers to develop lightweight tools and improve AI fluency across Operations.
- Maintain connection to build execution and support work in office, prototyping, manufacturing, and industrial environments.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, Engineering, or another technical discipline with strong demonstrated software capability, or an equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
- Typically 2+ years of software, data, automation, AI/ML, or technically sophisticated engineering experience; exceptional new graduates with substantial project portfolios may be considered.
- Strong Python proficiency and working knowledge of APIs, JSON, SQL, Git, testing, and modern software development.
- Hands-on experience building and deploying LLM applications, RAG systems, agents/tool-use workflows, or AI-enabled automation.
- Hands-on experience integrating applications with APIs, databases, or other software systems and troubleshooting application, data, or integration issues.
- Preferred familiarity with LLM orchestration or retrieval frameworks, vector databases, structured-output and schema tools, AI evaluation or tracing tools, and cloud or containerized deployment.
- Preferred familiarity with MCP client/server concepts or comparable approaches for integrating AI applications with tools and enterprise systems.
- Preferred familiarity with AWS, Azure, GCP, or comparable cloud and containerized deployment environments.
- Preferred familiarity with MES, PLM, ERP, issue-tracking or work-management systems, Git repositories, CAD/BOM data, or comparable engineering data sources.
- Strong debugging, decomposition, rapid-prototyping, technical communication, documentation, security, and configuration-control judgment.
- Industrial operations, manufacturing, aerospace, energy, construction, robotics, hardware integration, or other physical-operations experience is strongly preferred.
- Ability to work with ambiguous requirements, translate them into testable behavior, troubleshoot across system boundaries, and enable non-software engineers.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits for employees and dependents.
- Paid vacation.
- 401(k) and pre-tax health insurance, dependent care, and commuter benefits through FSA programs.
- Competitive compensation packages.
- The role is located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, with some travel between Kairos sites and partner facilities; occasional weekends, schedule flexibility, and extended hours may be required.
- Work may occur in office, prototyping/testing, manufacturing, and industrial environments and may require PPE.
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About Kairos Power
Kairos Power designs and commercializes advanced nuclear reactors using a fluoride-salt coolant to deliver high-temperature, low-carbon energy for utilities and industrial customers. The company develops, licenses, and builds demonstration systems as a path to fleet deployment, with offerings spanning reactor design, engineering, and operations support. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Alameda, California, the privately held firm grew out of U.S. university and national-laboratory research on fluoride-salt-cooled, high-temperature reactors (FHRs).