Junior AI DevOps Engineer — Hybrid

Socket.dev; United States; Hybrid; USD 63,000 - 99,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock award

Parental leave

PTO (uncapped)

Job summary

Digi International is seeking an entry-level engineer to build internal tools, AI pipelines, and automation systems. You will own development and operations of internally-built applications, cloud infrastructure, and help evaluate AI models while shaping how Digi adopts AI in daily work.

You’ll write code, run experiments, and collaborate across product, engineering, and operations in a hybrid, US-based role with real impact from day one.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Comfortable writing Python and working with APIs and command-line tools.
• Curious about AI and has experimented with LLMs, local models, or AI-integrated tools.
• Able to read documentation, figure things out, and ship without waiting for perfect instructions.
• Strong communicator who can explain technical concepts to non-technical people.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and improve internally developed applications and automation pipelines.
• Manage deployments, environment configuration, and CI/CD workflows for selfware projects.
• Write glue code, integrations, and scripts to connect tools, APIs, and data sources.
• Monitor system health, triage issues, and iterate toward more reliable, maintainable systems.
• Research and test AI models — cloud-hosted and local — for product and internal use cases.
• Run structured evaluations comparing models on performance, cost, latency, and fit.
• Support product and engineering teams in identifying where AI creates real leverage.
• Track developments in the AI landscape and surface relevant findings to the team.
• Partner with the Digi AI team to develop and deliver AI training programs across the organization.
• Host workshops and lunch-and-learns to help Digi employees build practical AI skills.
• Build training materials, guides, and playbooks for AI tools and workflows.
• Support teammates in getting productive with AI — answering questions, running demos, troubleshooting.
• Contribute to internal standards for responsible and effective AI use.

Skills

Python

APIs

Command-line tools

Documentation

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

GitLab

GitHub

Docker

Ollama

llama.cpp

Hugging Face

AWS Lambda

EC2

S3

Terraform

Ansible

AWS CloudFormation

CloudWatch

Grafana

VS Code

Claude API

OpenAI API

Job description

Digi International is seeking an entry-level engineer to build internal tools, AI pipelines, and automation systems. You will own development and operations of internally-built applications, cloud infrastructure, and help evaluate AI models while shaping how Digi adopts AI in daily work.

You’ll write code, run experiments, and collaborate across product, engineering, and operations in a hybrid, US-based role with real impact from day one.