Senior AI Developer
BlackLine
Pleasanton, United States of America
29 days ago
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Experience level
Senior Compensation
$ 163KJob location
Pleasanton, United States of America
Tech stack
Java
API
Artificial Intelligence
Cloud Engineering
Computer Programming
Databases
Python
Software Engineering
Google Cloud Platform
Large Language Models
Prompt Engineering
Job description
As aSenior AI Developeron BlackLine's Corporate AI team, you will play a pivotal role inbringing AI to every corner of the company. You'll design and deliverenterprise-grade AI agentsthat transform data into actionable insights, streamline internal workflows, and help teams across the business make better, faster decisions. In this highly visible role, you'll partner directly with business leaders and be trusted toshape, build, and launch AI solutions end to end. You'll Get To:
- Design, build, and ship AI agents and applicationsusing tools such asVertex AI, Anthropic, and cloud-based AI services, focusing on internal/enterprise use cases.
- Translate business problems into AI solutionsby working directly with stakeholders to clarify needs, define requirements, and propose impactful use cases.
- Own thefull development lifecycle-from requirements and design, to coding, testing, deployment, and iterative enhancement.
- Launch short-term AI agents and features within a quarter, consistently meeting release dates and timelines.
- Integrate AI agents withenterprise systems, APIs, and internal tools, creating seamless, end-to-end workflows that fit into how teams already work.
- Monitor and support AI solutions in production, investigating issues, improving performance, and refining user experience based on feedback and metrics.
- Contribute toteam-wide standards and best practicesfor AI development, including coding patterns, observability, and governance.
- Collaborate closely with a small global AI team(US and India) and contractors, sharing context, reviewing code, and jointly owning deliverables.
- Provideknowledge transfer and occasional mentoring, helping others understand how to effectively leverage AI tools and patterns.
Requirements
- 3+ years of Senior-level software development experience, including at least2+ years focused on AI development in an enterprise environment.
- Strong programming skills in one or more languages used for AI and cloud development (e.g.,Python, Java, or similar).
- Hands-on experience building applications or agents withgenerative AI platforms, such as:
- Google Cloud Vertex AI
- Anthropic modelsand associated SDKs/ADKs
- Other major cloud AI APIs and services
- Agentic frameworks like LangChain or LlamaIndex to build, chain, and deploy LLM-powered applications.
- Proven experiencedelivering production-grade AI solutions, not just prototypes-covering reliability, maintainability, and scalability.
- Experience implementing RAG architectures using vector databases such as Vertex AI Vector Search, Pinecone, or Weaviate.
- Advanced prompt engineering skills and a deep understanding of how to design, test, and optimize prompts for specific outcomes within agents.
- Experience developing software that adheres to enterprise security and compliance standards
- Demonstrated ability toclarify ambiguous requirements, think analytically, and design practical solutions to operational and functional problems.
- Excellent communication skills, with a track record of partnering directly with business leads to gather requirements, present options, and align on outcomes.
- A history of operating as asenior individual contributor, setting objectives and delivering results that materially impact a team, function, or division.
- Comfort working in asmall, distributed team, pulling your own weight while collaborating effectively across time zones.
We're Even More Excited If You Have:
- You've worked on aCorporate/Enterprise AI team, building internal tools or agents rather than only external product features.
- You have experience leading or significantly contributing tohigh-visibility AI projectswith executive-level stakeholders.
- You're familiar withenterprise data, security, and governance considerationswhen building AI solutions (e.g., permissions, privacy, data minimization).
- You've successfully collaborated withglobal teams and contractors(e.g., US and India) in a fast-paced environment.
About the company
At BlackLine, we're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business of enterprise applications.
Since being founded in 2001, BlackLine has become a leading provider of cloud software that automates and controls the entire financial close process. Our vision is to modernize the finance and accounting function to enable greater operational effectiveness and agility, and we are committed to delivering innovative solutions and services to empower accounting and finance leaders around the world to achieve Modern Finance.
Being a best-in-class SaaS Company, we understand that bringing in new ideas and innovative technology is mission critical. At BlackLine we are always working with new, cutting edge technology that encourages our teams to learn something new and expand their creativity and technical skillset that will accelerate their careers., * A technology-based company with a sense of adventure and a vision for the future. Every door at BlackLine is open. Just bring your brains, your problem-solving skills, and be part of a winning team at the world's most trusted name in Finance Automation!
* A culture that is kind, open, and accepting. It's a place where people can embrace what makes them unique, and the mix of cultural backgrounds and varying interests cultivates diverse thought and perspectives.
* A culture where BlackLiner's continued growth and learning is empowered. BlackLine offers a wide variety of professional development seminars and inclusive affinity groups to celebrate and support our diversity.
BlackLine is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity or expression, race, ethnicity, age, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, ancestry, color, marital status, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, status as a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking, medical condition, genetic information, or any other protected class or category recognized by applicable equal employment opportunity or other similar laws
BlackLine recognizes that the ways we work and the workplace itself has shifted. We innovate in a workplace that optimizes a combination of virtual and in-person interactions to maximize collaboration and nurture our culture. Candidates who live within a reasonable commute to one of our offices will work in the office at least 3 days a week.
Salary Range:
USD $130,000.00/Yr. - USD $163,000.00/Yr.