Senior Software Engineer - AI Enablement

Garmin; Olathe (KS); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Garmin seeks a Senior Software Engineer for its AI Enablement team at the U.S. headquarters in the Greater Kansas City area. The role focuses on shaping how engineers apply AI and building systems, integrations, and guidance to improve Garmin’s engineering workflows.

The position requires strong Python skills, knowledge of C/C++, and a track record in designing and maintaining software systems, with the ability to lead and collaborate across teams in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required with 5+ years of relevant experience
• Proficiency in Python and working knowledge of C/C++
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining software systems
• Experience with software development quality methodologies
• Strong verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills
• Ability to collaborate effectively and contribute to a positive team environment

Responsibilities

• Lead software development efforts as an individual contributor in Python
• Build tools and systems to harness AI models and platforms for Garmin engineers
• Develop AI plugins, skills and agents integrating Garmin tools and knowledge bases
• Create repeatable patterns for configuring and applying AI in engineering workflows
• Build and maintain systems for sharing AI plugins across Garmin
• Develop benchmarks to differentiate AI models by cost vs performance
• steward AI platform features, assess risks, and guide usage and enablement
• Research emerging AI techniques and prototypes with potential impact
• Create training materials, demos, and practical guidance for engineers
• Partner with engineering teams to understand needs and disseminate best practices

Skills

Python

C/C++

Leadership

Software design

Communication

AI integration

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics or related field

Job description

Overview

We are seeking a full-time Senior Software Engineer on Garmin's AI Enablement team at our U.S. headquarters in the Greater Kansas City area. In this role, you will help shape how engineers across Garmin put AI to work. Our mission is to turn AI’s rapid evolution into real capabilities that improve everyday engineering across the company. You’ll build the systems, integrations, and shared guidance that help associates work more effectively with AI. Come be a part of advancing the future of engineering at Garmin.

Essential Functions

• Serves in a leadership capacity as an individual contributor for carrying out software development in Python
• Builds tools, extensions, and systems that help engineers effectively harness AI models and platforms
• Develops AI plugins, skills, and agents that connect AI with Garmin’s engineering tools and knowledge bases
• Creates repeatable patterns for configuring and applying AI in everyday engineering
• Builds and maintains systems for sharing and updating AI plugins across Garmin
• Develops benchmarks to differentiate AI models based on cost versus performance
• Stewards the influx of AI coding platform features, assessing risks and guiding how features are enabled, configured, and used
• Researches emerging AI techniques and prototypes promising ideas
• Creates and curates training, demos, and practical guidance that help engineers use AI effectively
• Partners with engineering teams to understand their needs, improve solutions, and share what works

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics or related field AND a minimum of 5 years relevant experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• Excellent academics (cumulative GPA greater than or equal to 3.0 as a general rule)
• Proficiency in Python and a working knowledge of C/C++
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining software systems
• Experience with software development quality methodologies such as design review, code reviews, continuous integration, regression testing and static code analysis
• Demonstrated strong and effective verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively and contribute to a positive team environment
• Ability to decompose functional requirements into well-defined tasks while balancing quality, quantity, and complexity in work output
• Demonstrated capability to offer peer technical assessments in areas of expertise, new technologies and software designs
• Ability to prioritize work, solve complex problems, and lead in a changing environment
• Experience evaluating AI-powered systems against defined criteria for correctness, reliability, or task performance
• Experience connecting AI systems to tools, APIs, or internal knowledge sources and troubleshooting their behavior
• Firm grasp of how LLM-based systems use prompts, context, and tools, including their limitations and common failure modes

Desired Qualifications

• Experience integrating AI APIs into production applications or engineering tools
• Experience and/or working knowledge of the SDLC of embedded software development
• Experience designing context and prompts that shape AI systems to perform effectively within token and context limits
• Familiarity with retrieval techniques such as embeddings, document indexing, semantic search, RAG, or similar approaches
• Experience building AI agents that use tools and carry out multi-step workflows
• Experience building AI workflows with persistent memory and event-driven automation such as hooks that manage context, run validations, or trigger follow-up tasks
• A disciplined approach to testing AI-generated outputs and identifying errors or limitations
• Experience building evaluation frameworks that track AI quality and detect changes in behavior over time
• Experience creating shared developer tools, plugins, or technical training

Garmin International is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran’s status, age or disability.

This position is eligible for Garmin's benefit program. Details can be found here: Garmin Benefits