Senior Applied AI Engineer: AI Tooling & Prototyping Lead

KOS International Talent Group; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

KOS International partners with a leading global fintech to hire a Senior Applied AI Engineer for its U.S. AI team. You will drive AI coding tooling, developer experience, and frontier prototypes across internal scenarios that validate streaming UX and long-context memory.

You will turn Silicon Valley product engineering into multiplicative leverage, producing reference code, onboarding playbooks, and workshops to propagate best practices across the organization.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience.
• 2+ years focused on LLM applications.
• Experience shipping AI applications from 0→1 in production.
• Hands-on with AI coding tooling and related tradeoffs.

Responsibilities

• Introduce AI coding tooling best practices and onboarding playbooks.
• Define Skill design conventions; deliver 5–10 reference Skills.
• Prototype AI-native engineering workflows for reference adoption.
• Build internal AI prototypes in employee-facing scenarios.
• Provide runnable reference architecture code for APAC teams.
• Lead cross-team craft propagation via talks, blogs, and workshops.
• Participate in AI architecture reviews and provide frontier feedback.

Skills

Software engineering

AI application engineering

async collaboration

product sense

public technical influence

Education

CS/EE BS or higher

MS preferred

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

Devin

Replit Agent

LangGraph

AutoGen

CrewAI

OpenAI Swarm

Job description

KOS International partners with a leading global fintech to hire a Senior Applied AI Engineer for its U.S. AI team. You will drive AI coding tooling, developer experience, and frontier prototypes across internal scenarios that validate streaming UX and long-context memory.

You will turn Silicon Valley product engineering into multiplicative leverage, producing reference code, onboarding playbooks, and workshops to propagate best practices across the organization.