Staff Software Engineer, AI
Core
Design and build the production foundation for an AI assistant integrated into the student portal to answer questions about degree journeys.
Role type
Staff Software Engineer, AI (hands-on IC with technical leadership)
Builds
AI assistant for student degree journey navigation within the WGU portal
Domain
Higher Education / AI / LLM Applications
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
LLM-backed application development, retrieval-augmented generation, full-stack engineering, system design, security & privacy modeling, mentorship
Preferred skills
AWS Bedrock/SageMaker, vector databases, hybrid search, FERPA compliance, codebase modernization
Technologies
Java, Angular, AWS, LLMs, vector databases
Responsibilities
Design chat foundation (retrieval, inference, state), build security/privacy models, implement guardrails/governance, establish evaluation/observability practices, develop full-stack portal features, integrate with systems of record, mentor engineers
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with technical direction
