What We're Looking For :

- 3 to 6 years of strong software development experience - you've designed, shipped, and maintained production systems, not just prototypes.

- Solid fundamentals in system design, API design, testing, version control workflows, CI/CD, and debugging production issues.

- Python proficiency for AI/ML workloads, plus working knowledge of at least one full stack (MERN/MEAN or Java/Spring Boot).

- Hands-on with LLMs, prompt engineering, RAG, and agentic frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, or equivalent).

- Practical experience with vector databases and embedding-based retrieval (Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector).

- A working thesis on how AI is changing software development - where it genuinely accelerates work, where it fails, and why.

- Daily user of AI-assisted development tools (Claude Code, Cursor, or equivalent) - you should be able to describe what they do well and where they break down.

- Ability to hold your own with senior client engineers and architects, and comfort with ambiguity - much of this doesn't have an established playbook yet.