Senior Cloud Data & AI Architect

Qualifications

5+ years of software engineering experience with strong proficiency in Python

Working knowledge of at least one of Java, Go, or TypeScript

Hands-on experience building production REST/gRPC APIs and microservices

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Responsibilities

AI Engineer on the Agentic System Layer (ASL) team, you will play a crucial role in building and maintaining the core platform components that drive American Airlines’ agentic AI systems

Your responsibilities will involve developing and maintaining agent orchestration services, tool registries, and execution runtimes, as well as building APIs and microservices for LLM integration, prompt management, and agent lifecycle management

Developing and maintaining agent orchestration services, tool registries, and execution runtimes

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Job description

Jr.

AI Engineer

Inperson Interview Final round

Introduction

As a Jr.

AI Engineer on the Agentic System Layer (ASL) team, you will play a crucial role in building and maintaining the core platform components that drive American Airlines’ agentic AI systems. Your responsibilities will involve developing and maintaining agent orchestration services, tool registries, and execution runtimes, as well as building APIs and microservices for LLM integration, prompt management, and agent lifecycle management.

Responsibilities

• Developing and maintaining agent orchestration services, tool registries, and execution runtimes

• Building APIs and microservices for LLM integration, prompt management, and agent lifecycle management

• Implementing observability, logging, and monitoring for agentic workflows

• Writing comprehensive tests (unit, integration, end-to-end) for platform reliability

• Collaborating with architects on design decisions and with ML engineers on model integration

• Participating in on-call rotations for production support of the AI platform

• Contributing to CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and deployment automation

Requirements

Required Skills and Experience:

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with strong proficiency in Python

• Working knowledge of at least one of Java, Go, or TypeScript

• Hands-on experience building production REST/gRPC APIs and microservices

• Solid experience with cloud platforms (AWS or Azure preferred), containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi)

• Working experience with LLM integration patterns, prompt engineering, or AI/ML application development

• Familiarity with frameworks like LangChain, LangGraph, or similar orchestration tools

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with event-driven architectures (Kafka, EventBridge)

• Knowledge of vector databases and observability tools (Datadog, Splunk, OpenTelemetry)

• Experience with FastAPI/Flask, async Python, and Redis/caching patterns

• Background in the airline or travel industry