American Bureau of Shipping

Software Engineer, Applied AI

American Bureau of Shipping$120K — $150K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field
  • 5+ years of software development experience, including 3+ years building production-grade AI systems
  • Proven track record delivering AI agents, RAG pipelines, or fine-tuned models with measurable business impact
  • Experience designing evaluation frameworks and truth sets for applied AI quality assurance
  • Strong expertise in agent frameworks and LLM orchestration (API-first development, Vercel AI SDK, LangChain, etc.)

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement end-to-end AI systems, including multi-agent workflows, retrieval pipelines, and customized LLMs.
  • Deliver web and backend applications that seamlessly integrate AI, ensuring reliability, scalability, and strong user experience.
  • Develop rigorous truth sets, automated quality checks, and real-time monitoring pipelines to quantify performance and business outcomes.
  • Transform research concepts into production-grade systems through fast iteration, disciplined testing, and continuous refinement.
  • Contribute to internal standards for applied AI development, evaluation, and deployment at scale.

Benefits

  • Medical insurance (PPO and HD)
  • Dental and vision insurance
  • Health Savings Account (HSA)
  • Flexible Savings Account (FSA)
  • Life insurance and accidental death and dismemberment insurance
  • Disability leave programs
  • Parental leave program
  • Paid holidays and vacation time
  • Employee Assistance Plan (EAP) for personal wellness
  • 401K plan with a generous company match
Full Job Description
Job Description

We are seeking an exceptional Software Engineer to join our Applied AI team full-time. In this role, you will design, build, and deploy intelligent systems that move beyond research into production at scale. You'll focus on architecting and evaluating multi-agent systems, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, and fine-tuned large language models-delivering AI capabilities that drive measurable business impact.

What You Will Do:
  • Build at the frontier**: Design and implement end-to-end AI systems, including multi-agent workflows, retrieval pipelines, and customized LLMs.
  • * Engineer full-stack solutions**: Deliver web and backend applications that seamlessly integrate AI, ensuring reliability, scalability, and strong user experience.
  • * Raise the bar on evaluation**: Develop rigorous truth sets, automated quality checks, and real-time monitoring pipelines to quantify performance and business outcomes.
  • * Prototype rapidly**: Transform research concepts into production-grade systems through fast iteration, disciplined testing, and continuous refinement.
  • * Shape best practices**: Contribute to internal standards for applied AI development, evaluation, and deployment at scale.

What You Will Need:

Education and Experience
  • * Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field
  • * 5+ years of software development experience, including 3+ years building production-grade AI systems
  • * Proven track record delivering AI agents, RAG pipelines, or fine-tuned models with measurable business impact
  • * Experience designing evaluation frameworks and truth sets for applied AI quality assurance

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
  • Strong expertise in agent frameworks and LLM orchestration (API-first development, Vercel AI SDK, LangChain, etc.)
  • * Deep knowledge of RAG architectures, embeddings, vector databases, and retrieval optimization strategies
  • * Experience with LLM fine-tuning, prompt design, and model performance evaluation
  • * Full-stack engineering skills across modern web and backend technologies
  • * Familiarity with MLOps practices: CI/CD, model versioning, monitoring, and deployment at scale
  • * Strong grounding in applied information retrieval and vector-based systems

Salary:

$120k - $150k

Reporting Relationships:

This role reports to a senior leader (manager, director, or executive) and carries no direct reports.

About Our Benefits

ABS Group proudly offers a variety of industry-leading benefits designed to enhance the life and well-being of our employees and their families. These benefits include, but are not limited to, medical insurance (PPO and HD), dental and vision insurance, Health Savings account (HSA), Flexible Savings Account (FSA), life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment insurance, disability leave programs, parental leave program, paid holidays, and paid vacation time. The Company provides an Employee Assistance Plan (EAP) that offers additional support in personal wellness, including work-life services. ABS Group also offers a 401K plan with a generous company match, subject to plan requirements.

Other

This job description is not intended, and should not be construed, to be an all-inclusive list of responsibilities, skills, efforts or working conditions associated with the job of the incumbent. It is intended to be an accurate reflection of the principal job elements essential for making a fair decision regarding the pay structure of the job. #ogjs

About American Bureau of Shipping

The American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) is a classification society, with a mission to promote the security of life, property and the natural environment, primarily through the development and verification of standards for the design, construction and operational maintenance of marine-related facilities. ABS is the largest classification society globally, with more than 200 offices in 70 countries. The organization was founded in 1862 and is headquartered in Spring, Texas.
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