Senior Software Engineer (AI Team)

• Team: Artificial Intelligence

• Reports to: Director of Engineering, AI

• Fictiv is building the next generation of intelligent manufacturing platforms

• Our AI Team operates as an independent innovation group focused on creating entirely new product capabilities for both Fictiv and Misumi

• This isn’t about incremental improvements or maintaining existing systems. It’s about identifying what should exist next and building it from the ground up

• As a Senior Software Engineer on this team, you’ll work on early-stage ideas, rapidly turning concepts into functional prototypes, testing them with real users, and evolving the strongest signals into production systems.

• Discover and define high-leverage AI opportunities across manufacturing and supply chain workflows

• Build rapid prototypes using real-world company data to test new product ideas

• Develop and iterate on LLM-powered systems, focusing on usability, reliability, and impact

• Collaborate directly with customers and internal stakeholders to validate real-world use cases

• Transform validated concepts into scalable, production-ready systems with engineering partners

• Explore emerging AI models, tools, and frameworks to push the boundaries of what’s possible

• Capture learnings, system designs, and experiment results to support long-term scaling

• Contribute to shaping the AI roadmap across Fictiv and Misumi

Benefits

• Monthly virtual work stipend

• Paid volunteer days

• Learning and development stipend

• Paid parental leave

• Equity options

• Wellness perks- A track record of designing experiments and using data to validate technical decisions

• LLM evaluation and testing methodologies

• Proficiency in modern development environments (TypeScript/JavaScript and AWS preferred)

• 8+ years of software engineering experience

• Hands-on experience with:

• Authorization to work in the U.S. without current or future sponsorship

• Strong experience building and shipping LLM-based applications used in production

• Prompt design and iteration

• Guardrails, reliability patterns, and system design for AI applications

• You challenge assumptions—including your own—and iterate based on evidence

• You’re motivated by solving real business problems—not just writing code

• You communicate clearly and bring others along in your thinking

• You move quickly, test ideas early, and learn from real-world feedback

• You’re comfortable operating with limited structure and evolving direction

• You think like a builder and an owner, not just an implementer

• If you’re energized by ambiguity, driven by impact, and motivated by building things that don’t yet exist, this role is designed for you

• Experience with large, unstructured, or messy datasets

• Experience building AI-first products end-to-end

• Comfort working across multiple languages, tools, and architectures

• Background in applied machine learning or AI systems