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# Senior Software Engineer Applied AI

- **Company:** Advanced
- **Location:** Louisville, KY, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $125,000.0 - $180,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, 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=6f01f5f98c7e9aa2

## 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)



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