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Responsibilities
- Develop software in Python in a technical leadership capacity as an individual contributor.
- Build tools, extensions, systems, plugins, skills, and agents that connect AI models with engineering tools and knowledge bases.
- Create repeatable patterns for configuring and applying AI in engineering workflows.
- Build and maintain systems for sharing and updating AI plugins across Garmin.
- Develop benchmarks and evaluation frameworks to compare AI models and track quality, reliability, cost, and performance over time.
- Assess risks and guide the enablement, configuration, and use of AI coding platform features.
- Research emerging AI techniques and prototype promising ideas.
- Create training, demonstrations, and practical guidance for engineers using AI.
- Partner with engineering teams to understand needs, improve solutions, and share effective practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related field and at least five years of relevant experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Excellent academics, generally with a cumulative GPA of at least 3.0.
- Proficiency in Python and working knowledge of C/C++.
- Experience designing, building, and maintaining software systems.
- Experience evaluating AI-powered systems for correctness, reliability, or task performance.
- Experience connecting AI systems to tools, APIs, or internal knowledge sources and troubleshooting their behavior.
- Strong understanding of prompts, context, tools, limitations, and common failure modes in LLM-based systems.
- Strong verbal, written, interpersonal, collaboration, prioritization, problem-solving, and technical assessment skills.
- Preferred experience with production AI API integrations, embedded software development lifecycles, prompt and context design, embeddings, document indexing, semantic search, RAG, AI agents, persistent memory, event-driven automation, AI-output testing, evaluation frameworks, shared developer tools, plugins, or technical training.
Benefits
- Full-time position based at Garmin’s U.S. headquarters in the Greater Kansas City area.
- Eligible for Garmin’s benefit program; details are provided through Garmin Benefits.
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About Garmin
Garmin designs and sells GPS-enabled electronics and software for consumers and specialized markets, including wearables, automotive, marine, outdoor, and aviation. Its portfolio spans smartwatches and cycling computers to chartplotters and certified avionics, with revenue from device sales plus maps, apps, and subscription services. Founded in 1989 and headquartered in Olathe, Kansas, Garmin is a public company traded on NASDAQ (GRMN) with global manufacturing and R&D sites.