Onsite Lead AI-Native Software Engineer — Production Systems

AT&T; Alpharetta (GA); On-site; USD 155,000 - 261,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision coverage

401(k) plan

Tuition reimbursement

Paid Time Off and Holidays

Paid Parental Leave

Disability Benefits

Employee wellness programs

Job summary

AT&T seeks a Principal AI-Native Software Engineer to turn complex business needs into production-grade software. You will design and build AI-enabled applications, backend services, and REST APIs using Python and frameworks like FastAPI, Flask, or Django.

You will craft agentic AI workflows with LangGraph, collaborate with stakeholders in a two-in-a-box model, and ensure secure, observable, scalable solutions across enterprise platforms.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience delivering production applications.
• Strong Python development experience and REST API design.
• Hands-on with Docker and cloud/enterprise deployments.
• Experience integrating LLMs or Generative AI into applications.
• Security, reliability, observability, and maintainability focus.

Responsibilities

• Design and build production-grade AI-enabled applications and REST APIs.
• Create agentic AI workflows using LangGraph or similar frameworks.
• Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders in a 2-in-a-box model.
• Integrate AI apps securely with enterprise APIs, databases, and event streams.
• Define tool contracts, schemas, validation, and access controls.
• Develop evaluation strategies with testing, guardrails, and release gates.
• Implement RAG, vector search, grounding, and context engineering as needed.
• Build end-to-end solutions across back-end and front-end (Angular).
• Apply secure-by-design practices and production observability.

Skills

Python development

AI-native software development

REST APIs

Distributed systems

Security by design

Observability

CI/CD

LangGraph

Agentic workflows

Angular front-end

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Computer Engineering / Software Engineering or equivalent

Tools

FastAPI

Flask

Django

Docker

SQL

NoSQL databases

Angular

Job description

AT&T seeks a Principal AI-Native Software Engineer to turn complex business needs into production-grade software. You will design and build AI-enabled applications, backend services, and REST APIs using Python and frameworks like FastAPI, Flask, or Django.

You will craft agentic AI workflows with LangGraph, collaborate with stakeholders in a two-in-a-box model, and ensure secure, observable, scalable solutions across enterprise platforms.