Staff AI Engineer: Build Secure Student Portal Assistant

Western Governors University; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 161,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision, telehealth

Mental healthcare

Retirement plan

Wellbeing program

Tuition discount

Flexible PTO & 11 holidays

Job summary

Western Governors University in Salt Lake City is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, AI, to lead the design and build of the AI assistant foundation within the student portal. You will own the security, privacy, and evaluation framework while coding, testing, and operating full-stack features in a Java/Angular stack.

Join a team focused on applying AI meaningfully to higher education, mentorship, and engineering excellence in a collaborative, in-office environment in Utah.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field.
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 2+ years building LLM-backed applications in production.
• Server-side with Java / Python / TypeScript / Node / C# / Go and modern frontend (Angular/React/Vue).

Responsibilities

• Design and build the chat foundation for the student portal assistant with retrieval and inference.
• Own the assistant's security and privacy model with FERPA-compliant retrieval.
• Build guardrails, auditing, and explainability controls.
• Establish evaluation, testing, and observability for AI outputs.
• Develop full-stack portal features in Java and Angular environment.
• Integrate with systems of record and provide production support.

Skills

Technical ownership

LLM in prod

Full-stack

Security & FERPA

Java/Angular

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS Bedrock

SageMaker

CI/CD

Vector DBs

Job description

Western Governors University in Salt Lake City is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, AI, to lead the design and build of the AI assistant foundation within the student portal. You will own the security, privacy, and evaluation framework while coding, testing, and operating full-stack features in a Java/Angular stack.

Join a team focused on applying AI meaningfully to higher education, mentorship, and engineering excellence in a collaborative, in-office environment in Utah.