AI Engineer

At Robots & Pencils, we build meaningful, scalable digital products that solve real business problems. 

We’re looking for a Senior AI Engineer to support the development and delivery of complex, integration-heavy platforms. This role is ideal for an experienced engineer who thrives in hands-on development, can confidently own features and deployments, and contributes to team leadership within a pod. 

In this role, you will work as a key contributor on a cross-functional team, building across the stack while helping guide delivery, improve systems, and solve challenging integration problems, including AI-native platforms such as agentic learning systems designed to enable human-centered learning in the Age of AI. 

This is not a greenfield project. You’ll be joining a mature, production environment with real users, where reliability, performance, and scalability are critical. You’ll collaborate closely with senior engineers to enhance existing systems and deliver high-quality features. 

By joining us, you leverage our Advanced AWS Partnership and the highly exclusive AWS Patterns Partnership, a distinction held by only 11 companies worldwide out of 190,000. 

 

What You’ll Do 

Development 

• Build and maintain backend services using Python and Node.js, including serverless architectures (e.g., AWS Lambda, API Gateway)
• Develop and integrate APIs that support frontend applications and external systems
• Contribute to frontend features and ensure smooth integration across the stack 
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code with strong unit testing practices 

 Workflow & System Orchestration 

• Support the development and maintenance of workflows using orchestration tools (e.g., Sequencer / workflow engines, state machines)
• Contribute to event-driven processes and asynchronous system operations (e.g., SQS, EventBridge)
• Assist in improving reliability through better error handling and retries 

 Backend & API Engineering 

• Develop RESTful APIs and support the BE architecture
• Integrate with third-party services and internal systems, including AI-driven platforms
• Assist in optimizing performance and scalability of services using DynamoDB single-table design patterns (composite keys, transactional writes) 
• Implement secure and reliable data handling practices  

System Reliability & Support 

• Troubleshoot issues in production environments with guidance from senior team members
• Contribute to logging, monitoring, and debugging efforts
• Support deployment and release processes in cloud-native environments (AWS, Docker) 

 Collaboration & Growth