AI Engineer: Backend & AI Workflows

Kiewit; Lenexa (KS); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision plans

Retirement plans with matching

Generous paid time off

Job summary

Kiewit is seeking an AI Engineer to design, develop, and operate AI-enabled services that support enterprise workflows. This role is backend-focused, delivering scalable AI-powered backends and collaborating on frontend components as needed.

The position emphasizes cloud-native development, agent-based workflows, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), observability, security, and governance while working with product teams to deploy AI capabilities into production.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience building and operating backend APIs and services.
• Hands-on experience with MCPs and AI workflows.
• Experience designing and operating containerized services, including Docker and container sandboxing.
• Hands-on experience with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems.
• Proficiency with SQL and relational database design.
• Experience developing and deploying cloud-native applications in production environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy AI-enabled services and agent-based workflows
• Build and maintain API-driven backend services supporting AI-powered applications
• Contribute to frontend components and user interfaces as needed to support AI workflows
• Implement multi-step AI workflows capable of tool usage, data retrieval, and external system integration
• Integrate AI systems with enterprise data platforms and business systems
• Develop and maintain observability, logging, and monitoring for AI services
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions
• Ensure solutions meet security, compliance, and governance standards
• Participate in architectural reviews and contribute to platform standards and best practices

Skills

Backend API design

Cloud-native development

AI workflows

Containerization

SQL database design

Frontend contribution

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Docker

Azure

PostgreSQL

Node.js

React

Express

Job description

Kiewit is seeking an AI Engineer to design, develop, and operate AI-enabled services that support enterprise workflows. This role is backend-focused, delivering scalable AI-powered backends and collaborating on frontend components as needed.

The position emphasizes cloud-native development, agent-based workflows, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), observability, security, and governance while working with product teams to deploy AI capabilities into production.