AI Applications Engineer — Fintech Automation

Socket.dev; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 145,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401k match (25% of eligible)

Paid time off (PTO)

12 paid holidays

Job summary

Auction.com in Irvine, CA is seeking a hands-on AI Applications Engineer to transform how work gets done through secure AI-powered applications and automations. Working with Claude as the primary platform, you will partner with G&A and business teams to identify manual workflows and turn them into scalable, auditable solutions.

You will design, build, test, and deploy AI-powered applications, integrate with enterprise systems, and ensure privacy, security, and regulatory compliance.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software engineering or application development experience with hands-on AI/LLM-powered solutions.
• Strong development skills in Python and/or JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Experience with Claude/Anthropic APIs or comparable enterprise LLM platforms.
• Hands-on experience with LLM concepts such as RAG, embeddings/vector search, prompt engineering, structured outputs, tool/function calling, and AI agents.
• Experience integrating APIs, databases, cloud services, and enterprise applications.
• Strong understanding of software engineering, data privacy, security, and production application development.
• Ability to translate ambiguous business problems into practical technical solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and deploy AI-powered applications, agents, and workflow automations using Claude and other emerging AI technologies.
• Partner with Finance, HR, and Legal teams to identify high-impact opportunities for AI and automation.
• Build solutions using LLMs, APIs, RAG, embeddings, structured outputs, tool/function calling, and agentic workflows.
• Integrate AI capabilities with existing enterprise applications, databases, APIs, and SaaS platforms.
• Move solutions from prototype to secure, reliable production applications.
• Build human-in-the-loop controls, monitoring, and approval processes for sensitive workflows.
• Partner with Technology, Security, Legal, and Compliance to ensure AI solutions meet privacy, security, regulatory, contractual, and data governance requirements.
• Establish permissions, audit trails, monitoring, and safeguards for AI-enabled processes.
• Measure impact via efficiency, accuracy, turnaround time, cost, and employee experience.
• Stay current on emerging AI technologies and identify opportunities to apply them responsibly.

Skills

Python

JavaScript/TypeScript

AI/LLM development

Claude/Anthropic APIs

LLM concepts (RAG, embeddings)

APIs integration

Cloud services

Data privacy & security

Communication skills

Tools

Claude

Anthropic APIs

AWS

Salesforce

Microsoft 365

Job description

Auction.com in Irvine, CA is seeking a hands-on AI Applications Engineer to transform how work gets done through secure AI-powered applications and automations. Working with Claude as the primary platform, you will partner with G&A and business teams to identify manual workflows and turn them into scalable, auditable solutions.

You will design, build, test, and deploy AI-powered applications, integrate with enterprise systems, and ensure privacy, security, and regulatory compliance.