Fuel Cycle

Associate AI Engineer (Onsite in Los Angeles)

Los Angeles Office. Posted 18 days ago

The role

You will build real AI agents on a production platform using Python and FastAPI. You will design tool-calling agents, build RAG pipelines, and deploy agents on Bedrock AgentCore.

What you will do

  • Design, build, and improve AI agents using Strands Agents and AWS Bedrock
  • Build and integrate MCP tools and servers
  • Deploy and run agents on Bedrock AgentCore
  • Build RAG pipelines over pgvector or FAISS
  • Design, test, and iterate on prompts
  • Evaluate models, tools, and approaches
  • Ship features and bug fixes in FastAPI services
  • Contribute to background jobs and queue consumers
  • Apply architectural standards and maintain design documents
  • Submit pull requests and review teammates' code

Required qualifications

  • Solid Python from coursework, internships, or work
  • Data structures and algorithms
  • SQL fundamentals
  • REST and HTTP concepts
  • Git and pull-request workflow
  • Clear communication
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • Roughly 0–2 years of software engineering experience

Nice to have

  • An agent project built with Strands Agents, LangChain, the OpenAI SDK, or a similar framework
  • Model Context Protocol (MCP)
  • AWS Bedrock or Bedrock AgentCore, or AWS basics such as S3 and SQS
  • RAG: chunking, embeddings, and vector stores
  • Prompt engineering
  • FastAPI or a similar framework such as Flask or Django
  • SQLAlchemy or another ORM
  • Willingness to learn async Python
  • PostgreSQL exposure

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance plans
  • 401(k) with Company Match
  • Equity Purchase Option
  • Flexible Work Schedule
  • 15 vacation days and 7 sick days per year
  • 12 company holidays
  • 4 floating holidays/recharge days
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Monthly Internet & Phone Stipend
  • Access to tools like Rightway, Headspace, and Peloton
  • Weekly community lunches, refreshments, and snacks at LA & NY headquarters

About the company

Fuel Cycle empowers leading organizations with agile research solutions that deliver decision-ready insights. Their AI-powered Insights Platform is built for speed, precision, and scale.