Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Alkami Technology is a digital sales and service platform provider for U.S. banks and credit unions, recognized for its intentional culture and growth. They are seeking a Sr. AI Engineer to partner with the AI Engineering lead, contribute to the Elixir platform, and ensure its security and functionality while engaging with business stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Partner with the AI Engineering lead to ship features from day one, ramping quickly into independent contributions on the Elixir platform
- Complete a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) rotation in months 1–2 — embed with a business function to learn what the platform must support by being the one who needs it
- Contribute to Elixir’s core platform: skill execution runtime, tool/MCP registry, retrieval and memory primitives, evaluation harnesses, observability and cost telemetry, and multi-model routing
- Extend the skills surface: creating, editing, version control, AI assistance, testing, benchmarking, and permissions
- Build event-driven background agents — absorb support-ticket pre-triage, ambient agents, and webhook-driven flows into Elixir as native event-driven flows
- Productize what FDEs build — extract platform-level needs so each engagement compounds rather than serializes
- Make Elixir secure for production — PII handling, access control, audit logging, evaluation gates, sandboxing, and multi-tenant isolation
- Maintain clear and proactive communication with stakeholders and cross-functional partners
- Demonstrate self-sufficiency by independently managing tasks, problem-solving, and meeting deadlines while adapting to new challenges
Skills
- 5+ years of experience as a software, data, or AI engineer — the bar is 'you've shipped production software with real users,' not pure tenure
- Fluent in Python and at least one typed language (TypeScript, C#, Java, or equivalent)
- Internalized CS fundamentals: complexity analysis, recursion, algorithms, and data structures
- Practical database depth — ACID transactions, contention, indexes, and migrations in both SQL and NoSQL environments
- Has built at least one full-stack application from scratch in a modern JavaScript framework (React or Svelte)
- Basic proficiency in Linux, sandboxed execution, micro-VMs, and containerization
- Trainable and coachable — works best for someone without hardened framework preferences who is excited by an intense mentorship environment
- Enthusiastic about the FDE rotation as a first project: comfortable interfacing directly with business stakeholders
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate technical concepts for non-technical audiences
- Proven ability to work cross-functionally across engineering and business teams
- Experience with AI agents, agent harnesses, durable workflows, MCP servers, and context management
- Consulting, requirements-engineering, FDE, or 'upstream of engineering' experience
- Familiarity with 'big data' environments (Spark, EMR)
- AWS Cloud experience; banking, fintech, or compliance domain knowledge
- Hands-on experience with Convex, Vercel AI SDK, React, DSPy, or semantic search
- Open-source contributions in the AI agent or tooling ecosystem
- Experience working with SaaS offerings in financial services or high-growth technology companies
Benefits
- Remote-first environment
- Unlimited paid time off
- 401(k) with employer match
Company Overview
Alkami Technology provides cloud-based digital banking solutions for credit unions and banks. It was founded in 2009, and is headquartered in Plano, Texas, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is http://www.alkami.com.