The Role
Build and own production AI features using LLM integrations, RAG workflows, AI agents, and backend services. Design APIs, automated tests, monitoring, evaluations, and operational processes while optimizing quality, latency, reliability, and cost. Collaborate with product, UX, data, QA, and platform teams to deliver enterprise AI capabilities. The role requires 3+ years of software development experience and recent production deployment of AI-powered features.
Summary Generated by Built In
At Advantive, we don’t just make software—we build careers and power the manufacturing and distribution backbone of the global economy. We are growing fast, investing in AI, and building a culture where motivated, curious people rise quickly.
We are building the next generation of intelligent enterprise software—platforms that think, adapt, and automate alongside the people who use them. Our AI & Business Intelligence team delivers conversational assistants, intelligent search, data-driven agents, predictive analytics, and workflow automation that transform how businesses operate.
As a Mid-Level AI Software Developer, you will own and deliver production-ready AI features end-to-end. You will work across LLM integrations, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, and AI-driven workflows, building reliable backend services and applications that directly impact enterprise customers.
This role is ideal for an experienced software engineer who has shipped AI-powered features in production and is ready to take full ownership of feature delivery, including performance, reliability, and cost efficiency. We are looking for candidates who are practical, collaborative, and comfortable making sound engineering trade-offs in real production environments.
Responsibilities:
- Design and deliver AI-powered product features end-to-end, from requirements and solution design through implementation, testing, deployment, and post-release optimization.
- Build and maintain retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) workflows that ground LLM responses in enterprise data, including application-side retrieval design, response grounding, and retrieval tuning.
- Implement application and backend services that integrate large language models and AI services into enterprise products through well-designed APIs and service boundaries.
- Develop AI-assisted workflows and agent-style automations that interact safely with enterprise data, product capabilities, and external systems.
- Create and maintain automated tests, evaluation practices, monitoring, and operational runbooks for AI-enabled features so reliability is designed in from the start.
- Analyze production behavior, user feedback, and telemetry to improve answer quality, latency, reliability, and cost efficiency. Make and communicate trade-offs between model quality, latency, and cost.
- Collaborate with product, UX, data, QA, and platform teams to define use cases, acceptance criteria, evaluation methods, and rollout plans.
- Contribute to engineering standards through code reviews, technical design discussions, and shared best practices focused on testing, observability, security, and performance.
What Success Looks Like
- Owns AI-powered features end-to-end in production, from implementation through post-release improvement.
- Uses telemetry, user feedback, and evidence to improve answer quality, latency, reliability, and cost efficiency.
- Makes sound trade-offs between quality, latency, and cost, and can clearly explain those decisions to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Delivers reliable, well-tested features with appropriate monitoring, evaluation, and operational readiness.
- Collaborates effectively across engineering, product, UX, data, QA, and platform partners to ship high-quality releases.
Qualifications & Experience
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent demonstrated professional experience.
Technical Skills
- Proficiency in one or more backend languages and frameworks such as C#/.NET, Python, or TypeScript/Node.js.
- Hands-on experience building and shipping AI-powered features in production, such as LLM integrations, retrieval-based search, conversational assistants, intelligent agents, or workflow automation.
- Experience designing APIs and service integrations in distributed or service-oriented systems.
- Working knowledge of relational databases, including schema design, query fundamentals, and indexing concepts.
- Familiarity with cloud-hosted AI services such as Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, Azure Bot Service, Microsoft Agent Framework, or comparable platforms.
- Understanding of evaluation, monitoring, and reliability considerations for AI systems in production.
- Understanding of cost-quality trade-offs in LLM systems, including examples such as model selection, token efficiency, caching, or reducing unnecessary API calls.
- Proficiency with Git, code review, CI/CD pipelines, and modern software development practices.
Experience
- 3+ years of professional software development experience, including production experience designing, building, testing, deploying, and monitoring applications end-to-end.
- Experience shipping at least one production-deployed AI-powered feature with measurable customer impact within the past 18–24 months. This can be part of the 3+ years of total experience.
- Experience working with real production constraints such as operational reliability, data governance, and cost-performance trade-offs in AI-enabled systems.
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum and collaborative cross-functional development environments.
Why Advantive?
- Culture of Growth: We don’t hire to fill seats—we hire to develop talent. You’ll be supported like an athlete, coached like a leader, and challenged like a builder.
- Career Acceleration: Many of our best leaders started in frontline roles like this one. We believe in moving fast and promoting from within.
- Real Impact: You’re not a cog in the machine here. Your work helps real businesses that keep supply chains, manufacturing lines, and entire industries running.
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We believe in identifying a strong fit between our company and our employees and supporting a culture of creative problem solving and innovation. To that extent, if selected for next steps, you will be invited to complete a series of assessments that focus on aptitude and personality prior to a recruiter interview. Everyone at the company from early career all the way to CEO has taken these assessments. The assessment email will be coming from a no-reply email address via our ATS (Hirebridge), so please be on the lookout!
Advantive is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal employment regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity or expression), national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or other class protected by applicable law. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to these characteristics. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities and to ensuring a fair and inclusive hiring process.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent professional experience
- Proficiency in one or more backend languages and frameworks, such as C#/.NET, Python, or TypeScript/Node.js
- Hands-on experience building and shipping AI-powered features in production
- Experience with LLM integrations, retrieval-based search, conversational assistants, intelligent agents, or workflow automation
- Experience designing APIs and service integrations in distributed or service-oriented systems
- Working knowledge of relational databases, schema design, queries, and indexing
- Familiarity with cloud-hosted AI services such as Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, Azure Bot Service, Microsoft Agent Framework, or comparable platforms
- Understanding of evaluation, monitoring, and reliability for production AI systems
- Understanding of LLM cost-quality trade-offs, including model selection, token efficiency, caching, or API-call reduction
- Proficiency with Git, code review, CI/CD pipelines, and modern software development practices
- At least 3 years of professional software development experience designing, building, testing, deploying, and monitoring applications end-to-end
- Experience shipping at least one production-deployed AI-powered feature with measurable customer impact within the past 18–24 months
- Experience with operational reliability, data governance, and cost-performance trade-offs in AI-enabled systems
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum and collaborative cross-functional development environments
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The Company
What We Do
We make purpose-built software for specialty manufacturing and distribution businesses that streamline complex processes, optimize operations visibility and throughput, and drive improved quality, profitability, and revenue growth. Deeply embedded in our customers’ businesses, Advantive’s software solutions add value along the full manufacturing and distribution lifecycle. Our customers, who include corrugated and packaging manufacturers, equipment and supply wholesale distributors, and automotive and other specialty manufacturers, benefit from our solutions that have been honed over decades in the marketplace. We know our customers’ businesses intimately and deliver software to address their needs. Our software is deeply embedded in our customers’ operations. From schedule optimization and quality to sales order, inventory, and fulfillment management, from financial management to e-commerce to reporting and analytics, our software is designed to optimize every aspect of the manufacturing and distribution value chain. Specialized, scalable, and easy to use, our software optimizes performance and drives rapid value and ROI for our customers.
