2163 AI Software Engineer III

Job Description

Job Description

For more than three decades, Strategic Data Systems (SDS) has been a software consultancy firm specializing in strategy, technology, and business transformation for Fortune 100 companies, mid-sized firms, and startups. At SDS, we empower our development teams to address our clients’ critical business challenges by leveraging cutting edge technologies. If you seek a workplace where your contributions are truly appreciated, then SDS is the company for you. Join us today to work alongside fellow development specialists and become a crucial part of our dynamic and cohesive community.

Job Title: AI Software Engineer III

Location: Farmington Hills,  Michigan  (hybrid)

Years of Experience: 3-5+

TOP SKILLS:

  Must Have

• AWS
• Building backend system
• deploying software
• Python and TypeScript

What You’ll Do

We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer to join our AI agentic engineering team. You will  design and deliver guardrail components  across services ,  define where and how enforcement should occur in systems, and  mentor engineers on safe design and defensive programming patterns. You will also  architect backend services, APIs, and integrations that apply software engineering discipline to govern how AI-driven systems behave across the engineering workflow.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role requiring strong proficiency in Python and TypeScript, a track record of delivering cross-service systems, and the ability to define enforcement patterns that other engineers follow.

What You'll Do

• Design and deliver backend services and APIs that enforce system behavior across multiple services
• Define where and how enforcement, filtering, and validation should occur within system architectures
• Build cross-service controls and establish the patterns other engineers implement against
• Instrument and improve observability across service boundaries — structured logging, metrics, distributed tracing
• Own shared tooling and platform components with broad organizational reach
• Mentor engineers on safe design, defensive programming, and failure handling practices

Core Capabilities

• Writes production-quality code with strong proficiency in Python and TypeScript
• Demonstrates advanced experience working in cloud environments (AWS)
• Designs and implements scalable backend services and APIs across service boundaries
• Defines enforcement patterns and interface contracts consumed by other teams
• Thinks in systems — reasons about cross-service dependencies, failure propagation, and contract stability
• Communicates defensive design principles clearly to other engineers
• Shows strong technical curiosity and forms clear, experience-backed opinions

What Differentiates This Role

This role is focused on how systems behave under misuse, failure, or unexpected inputs — not on building user-facing features. At this level, you are  defining where enforcement lives and how it works across services, not just implementing within one. You bring both the technical depth to build these systems and the communication skills to make the patterns repeatable by others.

What You Will Bring

• 5–8 years  of software engineering experience with strong proficiency in  Python and TypeScript
• Demonstrated  experience delivering  production   systems on  AWS (Lambda, Fargate, API Gateway)
• Experience designing enforcement, filtering, or validation logic that spans multiple services
• Track record of defining interfaces, contracts, or patterns adopted by other engineers
• Ability to  mentor junior and mid-level engineers on defensive design and safe coding practices
• Clear written and verbal communication — able to define and document system-level enforcement patterns
• Experience designing and  building agentic workflows or multi-agent systems
• Familiarity with  LLM integration patterns — prompt injection detection, guardrail design, or output filtering

Nice to Have

• Experience with  AWS Bedrock — model invocation, guardrail configuration, or AgentCore runtimes
• Experience with agentic or multi-step workflow systems or Background in platform engineering or developer tooling roles

What You’ll Get

SDS, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.

• Competitive base salary
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage
• Optional life and disability insurance provided
• 401(k) with a company match and optional profit sharing
• Paid vacation time
• Paid Bench time
• Training allowance offering
• You’ll be eligible to earn referral bonuses!