Senior AI Engineer - Build Production AI on Azure

Howden; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 150,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Flexible PTO

Discretionary bonus

Job summary

Howden is seeking a Senior AI Engineer for its US AI Engineering team in Charlotte, NC. You will write production code in Python, Node.js/TypeScript, and C# on Azure services, shipping AI agents and orchestration while building scalable pipelines.

The role emphasizes hands-on development, integration with Terraform, and CI/CD, with a focus on agent-assisted tooling and retrieval-augmented generation to power insurance solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or equivalent hands-on experience.
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with 2+ years shipping AI/ML solutions.
• Strong coding background in Python, plus Node.js/TypeScript and .NET (C#).
• Experience with AI/ML in production and Azure AI services.
• Terraform and CI/CD experience; containers and cloud-native deployment.

Responsibilities

• Build production AI agents and conversational solutions on Azure using Azure OpenAI Service.
• Implement multi-agent orchestration, retrieval-augmented generation, and memory management.
• Develop APIs and services exposing AI capabilities to internal apps with CI/CD pipelines.
• Refactor prototypes into production code with proper error handling and cost controls.
• Own knowledge bases, taxonomies, and ingestion pipelines for AI retrieval.

Skills

Python

Node.js/TypeScript

C#/.NET

SQL

Azure

Terraform

CI/CD

LLM/AI

Knowledge bases

Agent frameworks

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Azure OpenAI Service

Azure AI Foundry

Azure AI Search

Terraform

Azure DevOps / GitHub Actions

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Howden is seeking a Senior AI Engineer for its US AI Engineering team in Charlotte, NC. You will write production code in Python, Node.js/TypeScript, and C# on Azure services, shipping AI agents and orchestration while building scalable pipelines.

The role emphasizes hands-on development, integration with Terraform, and CI/CD, with a focus on agent-assisted tooling and retrieval-augmented generation to power insurance solutions.