Software Engineer, AI & Automation

The role

You will build production software and AI-enabled systems to automate security workflows. You will design AI-enabled workflows, build RAG experiences, and create automated code-review capabilities.

What you will do

• Design and build AI-enabled workflows and multi-agent systems
• Build retrieval-augmented generation and semantic search experiences
• Create automated code-review capabilities
• Build production Python services and APIs
• Design and operate scalable pipelines for code, documents, and events
• Improve AI system quality through evaluation frameworks and experiment management
• Manage production tradeoffs like latency, reliability, and cost
• Design integrations with GitHub, Slack, Jira, Confluence, and LLM providers
• Apply security controls to AI applications
• Identify new opportunities for software, automation, and AI augmentation

Required qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production software
• Strong Python proficiency
• Experience building production backend services and APIs
• Experience designing maintainable backend architectures
• Experience developing distributed or cloud-based systems
• Hands-on experience building production AI-enabled applications or automations using LLM APIs, agents/tool use, RAG/retrieval, or comparable architectures
• Experience defining, evaluating, and improving the quality of AI-enabled systems in production
• Ability to work through ambiguity
• Strong communication skills

Nice to have

• Interest in secure software development
• Willingness to build deeper expertise in application security and AI security

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision health care plans
• Flexible Vacation Time Off
• 11 holidays
• Holiday company shutdown
• New Parent Leave
• Mental health support
• Paid sabbatical after 5 years
• Health and Dependent Care FSA and HSA Plan with monthly contribution
• Monthly Wellness Stipend
• Cell Phone Stipend
• Wifi Stipend (remote only)
• Work from home equipment stipend (remote only)

About the company

NerdWallet builds tools and experiences that help people make smarter financial decisions.