AI Engineer

Apex Systems; Des Moines (IA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401K with company match

ESPP

HSA

EAP (counseling)

Job summary

Everforth Apex is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to join our AI Platform Team in Des Moines (Partial Remote). You will build secure, scalable enterprise AI capabilities, focusing on production-ready backend and platform components, with governance around privacy, security, and observability.

You will develop reusable AI patterns, RAG-based search, chat assistants, and agent services, while delivering APIs and services that integrate into business workflows.

Qualifications

• 6–8 years of software engineering experience with hands-on development.
• Experience with AWS including API Gateway, Lambda, Bedrock, S3, EventBridge, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, CloudWatch, CDK, and Fargate.
• Bedrock experience is required.
• Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) using AWS CDK.
• At least 1 year building Generative AI solutions, especially in RAG/search-based or chatbot contexts.
• Understanding of prompt engineering and its impact on output quality.
• Knowledge of embeddings, semantic retrieval, vector search.
• Experience shipping enterprise APIs/services that integrate AI into business workflows.
• CI/CD, testing, debugging fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Operate across the full solution lifecycle, including infrastructure as code, APIs/services, cloud deployment, data storage, and production‑ready delivery.
• Build reusable AI platform components and domain‑aligned AI solutions with guardrails for privacy, security, compliance, observability, and engineering standards.
• Develop backend services, platform capabilities, and cloud‑native delivery solutions.
• Support initiatives such as building search agents, navigator agents, and domain‑specific chatbots (benefits, claims, membership).
• Create reusable base prompt templates and related AI platform assets for downstream teams.

Skills

Backend design

Collaborative teamwork

Prompt engineering awareness

Software craftsmanship

Tools

Node.js

TypeScript

AWS

AWS CDK

Bedrock

API development

DynamoDB

S3

PostgreSQL

Lambda

CloudWatch

Fargate

Job description

Job#: 3051919

Job Description:

AI Engineer

Location: Des Moines, Iowa (Partial Remote)

Role Overview

An opportunity is available for a Senior AI Engineer to join an AI Platform Team focused on building secure, scalable, and reusable enterprise AI capabilities. This role is centered on enabling safe and rapid AI adoption across the enterprise by delivering governed platform capabilities, reusable patterns, and enterprise AI solutions such as RAG-based search, chat assistants, and agent/chatbot services. This is a hands‑on engineering role focused on building and shipping production‑ready AI solutions, skewing toward backend and platform engineering.

Key Responsibilities

• Operate across the full solution lifecycle, including infrastructure as code, APIs/services, cloud deployment, data storage, and production‑ready delivery.
• Build reusable AI platform components and domain‑aligned AI solutions within guardrails related to privacy, security, compliance, observability, and engineering standards.
• Develop backend services, platform capabilities, and cloud‑native delivery solutions.
• Support initiatives such as building search agents, navigator agents, and various domain‑specific chatbots (e.g., benefits, claims, membership).
• Create reusable base prompt templates and related AI platform assets for downstream teams.

Required Qualifications

• 6–8 years of software engineering experience with hands‑on development in modern application engineering.
• Experience with Node.js / TypeScript.
• Experience building backend/platform‑oriented full‑stack solutions, including APIs, services, databases, cloud deployment, and operational support.
• Hands‑on AWS experience with services such as API Gateway, Lambda, Bedrock, S3, EventBridge, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, CloudWatch, CDK, and Fargate. Bedrock experience is required.
• Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC), specifically with AWS CDK.
• At least 1 year of hands‑on experience building Generative AI solutions, particularly in RAG/search‑based AI or chatbot/copilot experiences.
• Practical understanding of prompt engineering and its impact on output quality.
• Working knowledge of retrieval and generation concepts such as embeddings, chunking, semantic retrieval, and vector search.
• Familiarity with AI safety controls and output validation.
• Experience building and shipping enterprise‑grade APIs/services that connect AI capabilities into business workflows.
• Knowledge of software engineering fundamentals including testing, debugging, source control, and CI/CD.

Preferred Qualifications

• Python experience.
• Experience with agentic solution design, orchestration frameworks, or tool‑using AI workflows.
• Experience with Azure in addition to AWS.
• Familiarity with AI evaluation, observability, tracing, benchmarking, or monitoring for GenAI solutions.
• Experience working in a regulated environment such as healthcare, insurance, or financial services.
• Experience contributing to reusable platform components, internal SDKs, or service catalogs.
• Experience with event‑driven architecture, enterprise integrations, or cloud‑native service patterns.

Everforth Apex Benefits Overview

• Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection.
• We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure.
• Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts.
• In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on‑demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA.
• Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach.
• You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our ‘Welcome Packet’ as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.

Equal‑Opportunity Employer Statement

Everforth Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Everforth Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law.

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Everforth Apex is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Everforth Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law.

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