Required Qualifications
Experience
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Demonstrated hands-on coding expertise with modern application development practices.
- Experience building and operating AI-powered applications or LLM-based systems in production environments.
- Ability to interpret ambiguous business requirements and independently deliver robust, well-tested solutions.
- Experience designing scalable cloud-native applications.
Technical Skills
- Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems
- Large Language Models (LLMs)
- Agent-based AI architectures
- API development and microservices
- Python development
- FastAPI
- Frontend development using Angular or React
- Production software engineering and DevOps practices
Agentic AI Experience
- Experience building agent-based systems using frameworks such as:
- Google Agent Development Kit (ADK)
- CrewAI
- LangGraph
- Similar agent orchestration platforms
- Familiarity with agentic development tools and AI-assisted coding environments, including:
- OpenCode
- Claude Code
- Comparable AI developer productivity tools
Preferred Qualifications
Cloud & Platform Experience
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Cloud-native application architecture
- Platform engineering and AI infrastructure
Machine Learning & AI
- Applied machine learning experience, including:
- Embeddings
- Classification
- Clustering
- Natural Language Processing (NLP)
- Model evaluation and benchmarking
- Experience implementing AI evaluation frameworks and quality metrics.
Data & Governance
- Familiarity with:
- Data engineering principles
- Enterprise data platforms
- Metadata management
- Data governance processes
Education
- Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.
EEO Employer
Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law.
