API & AI Platform Engineer

Cellco Partnership; Basking Ridge (NJ); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental coverage

Vision

Job summary

Verizon is seeking a hands-on engineer to design APIs, build UI widgets, and extend AI agents across a production data center inventory platform. The role encompasses end-to-end ownership from schema design to deployment, with emphasis on secure, scalable services and dashboards used by network engineers.

You will collaborate with engineers to translate operational needs into shipped features, and contribute to a hybrid work setup with office presence required several days per week.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or one or more years of relevant work experience.
• Experience in JavaScript/Node.js - async patterns, REST handler design, error handling.
• Experience with AI agents / LLM tool-use patterns (MCP, function calling, agent orchestration).
• Frontend fundamentals - Vue.js (or React), HTML/CSS, browser networking, state management for dashboards.

Responsibilities

• Design REST APIs (Node.js) against Postgres, with versioning, input schemas, caching, and hybrid NP/prod auth models.
• Build widgets and Vue.js views that surface network inventory and operational metrics (counts dashboards, site status, work-item boards).
• Configuring and extending AI agents (MCP servers, tool bindings, prompt design) that assist network engineers with day-to-day ops.
• Model relational data for work-item tracking, project management, and CMDB-adjacent inventory.
• Owning the full lifecycle: schema migration → API → widget → agent tool → PR → prod deploy.
• Debugging across the stack: platform security policies, credential vaults, DB pool exhaustion, agent tool-call failures.

Skills

JavaScript/Node.js

Vue.js

REST APIs

HTML/CSS

AI agents

SQL/PostgreSQL

Git workflow

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Node.js

Vue.js

PostgreSQL

REST APIs

Job description

Verizon is seeking a hands-on engineer to design APIs, build UI widgets, and extend AI agents across a production data center inventory platform. The role encompasses end-to-end ownership from schema design to deployment, with emphasis on secure, scalable services and dashboards used by network engineers.

You will collaborate with engineers to translate operational needs into shipped features, and contribute to a hybrid work setup with office presence required several days per week.