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