Senior AI-Native Software Engineer
Vaco
Software Engineering, Data Science
Tempe, AZ, USA
Senior AI-Native Software Engineer POST NUMBER: 478395
We’re partnering with a rapidly growing consumer-facing organization building an internal enterprise AI orchestration platform focused on intelligent support, enterprise knowledge retrieval, workflow automation, and AI-enabled experiences across field operations and corporate teams.
This is not a traditional software engineering role centered around a specific language or framework. The team is looking for a strong senior engineer who remains highly hands-on technically, thinks in systems, and uses AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery of production-ready software.
The environment is highly integration-focused and product-oriented, with an emphasis on building scalable internal platforms and operational tooling rather than isolated AI demos or prototypes.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Build AI-enabled internal applications and workflow experiences across desktop and mobile contexts
- Develop secure API-first integrations across enterprise systems, SaaS platforms, and internal services
- Design and implement agentic workflows capable of retrieving knowledge, calling tools, and automating operational tasks
- Work closely with architecture, product, and business stakeholders to translate ambiguous operational challenges into working software
- Use AI-assisted development tooling such as Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or similar platforms to accelerate engineering delivery
- Review, validate, and harden AI-generated code for production use
- Contribute to scalable engineering patterns, integration standards, and platform architecture decisions
- Build with strong attention to testing, observability, maintainability, and security
Required Skills & Experience
- 4 years of professional software engineering experience
- Strong background in application, platform, or full stack engineering
- Experience building production-grade enterprise applications, integrations, or internal platforms
- Strong API and systems integration experience
- Familiarity with API gateway or service gateway platforms such as Kong, Apigee, AWS API Gateway, or similar technologies
- Experience working directly with business stakeholders and operating in ambiguous environments
- Hands-on experience using AI-assisted development workflows in real-world software delivery
- Strong systems thinking and product mindset
- Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and secure engineering practices
Preferred Experience
- Agentic AI frameworks such as LangGraph, LangChain, Semantic Kernel, AutoGen, CrewAI, or similar
- MCP, tool-calling, or function-calling workflows
- RAG, vector search, embeddings, or enterprise knowledge retrieval systems
- AWS Bedrock or enterprise LLM platforms
- Experience with enterprise automation or orchestration tooling
- Familiarity with Workato, MuleSoft, Boomi, or similar iPaaS platforms
- Exposure to retail, restaurant, field operations, or enterprise support environments
- Experience integrating platforms such as Zendesk, Workday, Teams, Snowflake, Datadog, or similar enterprise systems
- Mobile application exposure is helpful but not required
Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco/Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to the individual’s skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications, office location and other geographic considerations, as well as other business and organizational needs. With that said, as required by local law in geographies that require salary range disclosure, Vaco/Highspring notes the salary range for the role is noted in this job posting. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses, and can participate in medical, dental, and vision benefits as well as the company’s 401(k) retirement plan. Additional disclaimer: Unless otherwise noted in the job description, the position Vaco/Highspring is filing for is occupied. Please note, however, that Vaco/Highspring is regularly asked to provide talent to other organizations. By submitting to this position, you are agreeing to be included in our talent pool for future hiring for similarly qualified positions. Submissions to this position are subject to the use of AI to perform preliminary candidate screenings, focused on ensuring minimum job requirements noted in the position are satisfied. Further assessment of candidates beyond this initial phase within Vaco/Highspring will be otherwise assessed by recruiters and hiring managers. Vaco/Highspring does not have knowledge of the tools used by its clients in making final hiring decisions and cannot opine on their use of AI products.
Vaco by Highspring values a diverse workplace and strongly encourages women, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply.
EEO Notice
Vaco by Highspring is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race (including but not limited to traits historically associated with race such as hair texture and hair style), color, sex (includes pregnancy or related conditions), religion or creed, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, status as a veteran, union membership, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, political affiliation, or any other protected characteristics as required by federal, state or local law.
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Pay Transparency Notice
Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco by Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to:
- the individual’s skill sets, experience and training;
- licensure and certification requirements;
- office location and other geographic considerations;
- other business and organizational needs.
With that said, as required by local law, Vaco by Highspring believes that the following salary range referenced above reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses.
