Senior AI Engineer — Remote, Conversational Career Coach AI

Bot Jobs; Myrtle Point (OR); Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% Remote

Flexible work hours

Job summary

Careerminds is building an AI-driven career companion app featuring a conversational assistant and agentic actions like updating resumes, job searching, and interview prep. The role focuses on owning core architecture and guiding technical direction in a small team.

Ideal candidates bring 5+ years as a software/ML engineer with hands-on experience shipping LLM-based products, plus production work with agent frameworks, tool calls, and scalable state management.

Qualifications

• 5+ years as a software or ML engineer, including at least 2 years shipping LLM-based products to real users.
• Experience building a conversational product that people used, and a clear account of what worked and what didn’t.
• Production experience with agent frameworks (LangGraph or similar), tool calling, MCP, structured outputs, state management.
• Experience evaluating multi-turn systems: offline eval sets, judge validation, online testing.
• Experience with guardrails and adversarial input in a live product.
• Experience with streaming, latency and cost optimisation for LLM systems.
• Python, asynchronous programming, and API design; Git, Docker, and AWS.
• Interest in the problem domain: careers, coaching, how people make decisions about work.

Responsibilities

• Develop an AI career companion app with a conversational assistant and resume-related actions.
• Own core architecture and major decisions for the product.
• Manage conversation memory and user personalization across sessions.
• Orchestrate multi-step workflows with agents, tool calls and handoffs.
• Ensure traceability, debugging, and performance monitoring for agent decisions.
• Address latency and cost optimization in production environments.

Skills

Conversational product

Agent frameworks

Tool calling

State management

Python async

Tools

LangGraph

MCP

Postgres

AWS

Job description

Careerminds is building an AI-driven career companion app featuring a conversational assistant and agentic actions like updating resumes, job searching, and interview prep. The role focuses on owning core architecture and guiding technical direction in a small team.

Ideal candidates bring 5+ years as a software/ML engineer with hands-on experience shipping LLM-based products, plus production work with agent frameworks, tool calls, and scalable state management.