AI Systems Engineer - Backend for AI-Powered Insurance Platform

Federato; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 215,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Federato is seeking an Software Engineer, AI Systems to help build the backend architecture behind our emerging agent systems. This role sits at the intersection of software engineering, data infrastructure, and applied AI, designing systems that power LLM-driven capabilities across our underwriting platform.

You will own experimentation and production implementation, collaborating with product, design, and engineers to bring AI-powered workflows to life.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of backend or data engineering experience.
• Production backend systems and APIs experience.
• Professional experience with LLMs, agent systems, or generative AI applications.
• Hands-on experience with prompt design and tool-based agent architectures.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement agent workflows and orchestration systems for AI-powered product features.
• Build backend services that integrate LLMs with structured insurance data and platform APIs.
• Develop infrastructure for tooling, context management, and agent execution.
• Contribute to internal frameworks supporting prompt iteration, evaluation, and observability.
• Partner with product and design to translate underwriting workflows into AI-enabled product experiences.
• Help define architectural patterns for building reliable AI-native features in production.
• Work across backend systems, data infrastructure, and product integrations to ship user-facing capabilities.

Skills

Backend engineering

Data engineering

LLMs / agent systems

Python

Cloud infrastructure

Distributed systems

API development

Prompt design

Agent orchestration

Tools

Typescript

Job description

Federato is seeking an Software Engineer, AI Systems to help build the backend architecture behind our emerging agent systems. This role sits at the intersection of software engineering, data infrastructure, and applied AI, designing systems that power LLM-driven capabilities across our underwriting platform.

You will own experimentation and production implementation, collaborating with product, design, and engineers to bring AI-powered workflows to life.