Senior AI Systems Engineer

CNN; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

CNN is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the AI Systems team, building AI-powered applications and the platform that powers them. You will collaborate with ML engineers, editorial and product stakeholders, and platform engineers to ship features that enhance CNN's user experience and internal productivity.

You will design scalable architectures, integrate ML models into production, and drive operational excellence with reliable, low-latency software—helping CNN remain at the forefront

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience in a relevant field.
• Strong backend engineering experience with data-intensive applications at web scale.
• Proficiency in Python and at least one of Go, Java, or C++.
• Relational databases (Postgres or equivalent), NoSQL databases (DynamoDB or equivalent), and infrastructure as code (Terraform or equivalent).
• Demonstrated ability to design, build, and ship highly available, low-latency systems.

Responsibilities

• Author, test, review, and optimize production-quality code, following best practices for IaC, version control, and continuous delivery with minimal oversight
• Be a subject matter expert in one or more AI Systems production systems, independently shipping high-quality features and helping others understand complex technical domains
• Design components and systems architecture, driving technical decisions that create functional-level impact
• Integrate ML models and foundation models into production applications with appropriate guardrails, monitoring, and evaluation
• Solve business problems with simple and straightforward solutions, proactively defining problems and driving clarity for the team
• Drive operational excellence — building highly available, low-latency, and efficient software while thinking long-term about code health, monitoring, alerting, and documentation
• Partner with editorial, product, and ML stakeholders to translate requirements into reliable AI features
• Communicate effectively across audiences — technical documentation, code reviews, design reviews, and interactions with stakeholders and adjacent teams
• Embrace failure as a learning opportunity — use research and experimentation to choose solutions that meet company goals, moving autonomously from proof-of-concept to production

Skills

Python

Go

Java

C++

Backend engineering

Web scale

Relational databases

NoSQL databases

Terraform

IaC

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

Job description

CNN is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the AI Systems team, building AI-powered applications and the platform that powers them. You will collaborate with ML engineers, editorial and product stakeholders, and platform engineers to ship features that enhance CNN's user experience and internal productivity.

You will design scalable architectures, integrate ML models into production, and drive operational excellence with reliable, low-latency software—helping CNN remain at the forefront