Software Engineer, AI Systems

Xapply; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Xapply is seeking a Software Engineer, AI Systems based in the United States to lead the design and implementation of production-grade AI and LLM systems for enterprise safety applications. You will own multi-step reasoning pipelines that integrate language models, retrieval, tools, and knowledge graphs to derive actionable safety insights.

You will collaborate with product and security teams, emphasize precision, traceability, observability, and human oversight, and drive the end-to-end

Job description

Description:

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Software Engineer, AI Systems based in the United States.

This is a high-ownership engineering role focused on building production-grade AI and LLM systems for enterprise safety applications.
You will design and operate multi-step reasoning pipelines that combine language models, retrieval, tools, and knowledge graphs.
Your work will directly influence how investigators and safety leaders analyze incidents and turn organizational knowledge into actionable insights.
The role emphasizes precision, traceability, evaluation, observability, and human oversight because system outputs can inform consequential decisions.
You will work across agent orchestration, retrieval, evaluation, model selection, production operations, and AI security.
As part of a small, early-stage team, you will collaborate closely with technical and product leadership and take ownership from design through production.
The position offers the opportunity to solve technically challenging problems while seeing your work reach enterprise customers quickly.