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# Senior Software Engineer Applied AI

- **Company:** Advanced
- **Location:** Lansing, MI, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $125,000.0 - $180,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Code Review, Computer Programming, Software Debugging, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Search Technologies, Large Language Models, Generative AI, Backend, Front End Software Development
- **Published:** July 17, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=34608c2b5e44a069

## About the Role

* 7+ years building and operating production backend systems, with strong general-purpose programming skills (we work primarily in Python)
 * Experience running distributed systems in the cloud; comfortable debugging from telemetry to root cause
 * Hands-on production experience with LLMs or generative AI (any provider or framework), plus the judgment to know when not to use a model
 * Working fluency across the traditional machine learning lifecycle (you productionize; you do not need to publish)
 * Disciplined in a regulated environment: small, reviewable changes and careful handling of sensitive data

Nice-to-haves

 * Real-time media or telephony experience
 * Front-end / full-stack ability
 * ML pipeline experience, vector search, or embeddings
 * Fluency with AI coding assistants (our workflows assume them, with human accountability for every change)

How we work

Smallest correct change wins. Every behavior change is validated against the live system. Evidence over opinion in debugging. Code review is rigorous. Safety and privacy gate everything.



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