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# AI Software Engineer III

- **Company:** BC Forward
- **Location:** Farmington, IL, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $156,000.0 - $163,426.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Python (Programming Language), Software Engineering, TypeScript, Data Logging, Multi-Agent Systems, Backend, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, AWS Fargate, Functional Programming, Api Gateway, Terraform, Dynatrace
- **Published:** September 12, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.jofdav.com/jobs/59679733-ai-software-engineer-iii

## About the Role

We are seeking an AI Software Engineer III to join our AI agentic engineering team. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in Python, TypeScript, AWS, and infrastructure as code and a proven ability to design and deliver cross-service enforcement guardrails, scalable backend services, and repeatable defensive programming patterns., * Strong proficiency in Python and TypeScript with production-quality coding standards.

 * Advanced experience with AWS services, including Lambda, Fargate, and API Gateway.
 * Advanced experience with infrastructure as code, preferably Terraform, in production environments.
 * Proven ability to design and implement scalable backend services and APIs across service boundaries.
 * Experience defining enforcement patterns and interface contracts consumed by other teams.
 * Systems thinking with strength in cross-service dependencies, failure propagation, and contract stability.
 * Clear communication of defensive design principles to engineering audiences.
 * 5-8 years of software engineering experience in relevant roles.

Preferred Skills:

 * Experience designing enforcement, filtering, or validation logic that spans multiple services.
 * Track record of defining interfaces, contracts, or patterns adopted by other engineers.
 * Ability to mentor junior and mid-level engineers on defensive design and safe coding practices.
 * Experience with agentic workflows or multi-agent systems and familiarity with LLM integration patterns, including prompt injection detection, guardrail design, or output filtering.
 * Experience with AWS Bedrock, including model invocation, guardrail configuration, or AgentCore runtimes.

## Description

* Design and deliver backend services and APIs that enforce system behavior across multiple services.
 * Define where and how enforcement, filtering, and validation should occur within system architectures.
 * Build cross-service controls and establish patterns for other engineers to implement.
 * Instrument and improve observability across service boundaries with structured logging, metrics, and distributed tracing.
 * Own shared tooling and platform components with broad organizational reach.
 * Mentor engineers on safe design, defensive programming, and failure handling practices.


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