Associate AI Engineer

BKM Capital Partners is a growing firm looking for driven, entrepreneurial professionals who are passionate about technology, data, and solving complex business problems. Located in our Newport Beach, California office, the Associate AI Engineer will help transform how work gets done across our organization through AI and intelligent automation.

Using Claude and Codex as the primary AI platforms, you will partner with internal departments and resources to identify manual, repetitive, and complex workflows and turn them into secure, scalable AI-powered applications, agents, and automations.

This role will be responsible for designing and implementing AI agents, autonomous workflows, and enterprise automation systems that drive operational efficiency, reduce cycle times, improve investor experience, enhance compliance, and increase EBITDA through scalable automation.

 This role is 100% in-office due to the collaborative nature. A hybrid work schedule is not available.

Essential Functions  

• Design, build, test, and deploy AI-powered applications, agents, and workflow automations using Claude, Codex, and other emerging AI technologies.
• Partner with internal teams and resources to identify high-impact opportunities for AI and automation.
• Monitor and manage AI requests routed through the IT helpdesk and the AI request portal.
• Build solutions using LLMs, APIs, RAG, structured outputs, tool/function calling, and agentic workflows.
• Integrate AI capabilities with existing enterprise applications, databases, APIs, and SaaS platforms.
• Move solutions from prototype and proof-of-concept into secure, reliable production applications with documentation.
• Build human-in-the-loop controls, monitoring, and approval processes for sensitive or regulated workflows.
• Ensure AI solutions meet privacy, security, and data governance requirements.
• Establish appropriate permissions, audit trails, monitoring, and safeguards for AI-enabled processes.
• Measure the impact of solutions through improvements in efficiency, accuracy, turnaround time, cost, and employee experience.
• Stay current on emerging AI technologies and identify new opportunities to responsibly apply them across the organization.
• Review, approve, and catalog new AI tools and technologies as requested by departments or employees.
• Effectively manage competing priorities and complex project plans.

The Qualifiers

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical discipline strongly preferred.
• 3+ years of software engineering or application development experience, with hands-on experience building AI/LLM-powered solutions.
• Strong development skills in SQL, Python, and JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Extensive experience with Claude/Codex APIs or comparable enterprise LLM platforms.
• Hands-on experience with LLM concepts such as RAG, embeddings/vector search, prompt engineering, structured outputs, tool/function calling, and AI agents.
• Experience integrating APIs, databases, cloud services, and enterprise applications.
• Strong understanding of software engineering, data privacy, security, and production application development.
• Ability to take an ambiguous business problem, understand the workflow, and translate it into a practical technical solution.
• Strong communication skills and ability to partner with both technical and non-technical teams.
• Strong business acumen and demonstrated ability to quickly understand complex business processes, identify underlying needs, and translate them into practical technical solutions.
• Demonstrated experience gathering business requirements and successfully working between business users and technical resources.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to move comfortably between detailed technical issues and broader business objectives.
• Experience in real estate or finance is highly preferred.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with technical professionals, business users, and senior leadership.
• Strong organizational skills with exceptional attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
• Demonstrates the highest standards of integrity, professionalism, and ethical conduct.
• Champion the use of AI and emerging technologies to improve process efficiency.

Perks

• Competitive Pay + Bonus
• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Short & Long Term Disability, Pet Insurance, etc.
• Paid Time Off
• 401k Plan + Match
• Professional Development Resources
• Fun Work Vibe (Indoor basketball/pickleball, creative office space, team-building events, company training opportunities, and much more!)