Senior AI Systems Engineer - Production-Grade AI Solutions

Frontdoor, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 135,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Frontdoor, Inc. is seeking a Senior AI Software Engineer to design, build, and deploy production-grade AI-powered systems. The role emphasizes applied AI, including LLMs, AI agents, and intelligent automation, not model training.

The ideal candidate will architect scalable, secure AI solutions that integrate with real-world data systems, balancing rapid experimentation with production-quality engineering and strong safety practices.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in AI, ML, or prompt engineering, with senior/lead roles.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and hands-on AI system work.
• Experience designing end-to-end AI systems, not just APIs.
• Ability to design custom logic, tools, and integrations.
• Experience with APIs, services, and distributed systems.
• Knowledge of AI risks including prompt injection and data exposure.
• Familiarity with retrieval-based systems (RAG) and context management.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop AI-powered applications and services.
• Build systems leveraging LLMs, AI agents, reasoning engines, and orchestration frameworks.
• Write clean, efficient code to support AI use cases.
• Integrate AI services with existing software, APIs, and data sources.
• Design prompts, workflows, tools, and guardrails for reliable AI behavior.
• Optimize AI systems for performance, scalability, cost, and reliability.
• Collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams to deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Debug and resolve complex issues across AI logic, application code, and infra.
• Adapt to new AI capabilities and evolving requirements quickly.
• Define evaluation strategies to measure AI quality, accuracy, and reliability.
• Design systems resilient to prompt injection, data leakage, misuse.
• Implement observability, logging, and feedback loops for improvement.
• Architect data flows and retrieval strategies (RAG, context management) to support AI apps.

Skills

Python

JavaScript/TypeScript

Java

C#

Go

APIs

Distributed systems

LLMs

AI agents

Prompt engineering

RAG

Context management

Security & governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/engineering/IS

Tools

APIs & integration tooling

Cloud deployment patterns

Job description

Frontdoor, Inc. is seeking a Senior AI Software Engineer to design, build, and deploy production-grade AI-powered systems. The role emphasizes applied AI, including LLMs, AI agents, and intelligent automation, not model training.

The ideal candidate will architect scalable, secure AI solutions that integrate with real-world data systems, balancing rapid experimentation with production-quality engineering and strong safety practices.