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Zensar is looking for a Graduate Software Engineer - AI Platform Development in the United States (San Jose, CA – 100% Onsite/Hybrid). This position is open for Full Time with excellent benefits and professional growth opportunities.
About the Role
- You will join Zensar's AI Platform Development team.
- We design and build custom AI platforms, for our own use and for our clients, and deploy them on any major cloud or in a client's own environment.
- The work needs a real understanding of how AI models, agents and decision models work, and the engineering to make them dependable.
- Engineers work in two modes: building platforms with the team, and working forward deployed with clients to put them into their environments.
- Build features end to end; services and APIs, web interfaces, data and tests.
- Build AI agents and the controls around them: prompts, tools, retrieval, evaluations, human approval and audit trails.
- Understand the roadmap, propose new features, and take them from idea to release.
- Work with AI coding assistants every day: write clear specifications, review what they produce, own the result.
- Deploy platforms into a client's cloud or data centre and integrate them with the client's systems and APIs.
- Work alongside client teams, adapt the platform to their needs, and bring what you learn back into the product.
- Run demos, pilots and handovers; explain technical choices to engineers and managers alike.
Key Responsibilities:
Build the platforms
- Build features end to end: services and APIs, web interfaces, data and tests.
- Build AI agents and the controls around them: prompts, tools, retrieval, evaluations, human approval and audit trails.
- Understand the roadmap, propose new features, and take them from idea to release.
- Work with AI coding assistants every day: write clear specifications, review what they produce, own the result.
Work forward deployed with clients
- Deploy platforms into a client's cloud or data centre and integrate them with the client's systems and APIs.
- Work alongside client teams, adapt the platform to their needs, and bring what you learn back into the product.
- Run demos, pilots and handovers; explain technical choices to engineers and managers alike.
Must have skills:
- Strong Python, plus TypeScript or JavaScript.
- APIs (HTTP, REST, JSON, OAuth basics) and SQL databases.
- Linux, the shell, Docker, Git and GitHub.
- Cloud skills that travel: compute, storage, networking, identity and infrastructure as code on at least one of AWS, Azure, Google Cloud or Oracle Cloud, and ready to work
- How AI models work: large language models, embeddings, prompting, fine-tuning basics, and their limits.
- How agents work: planning, tool use, memory and retrieval; has built at least one.
- How decision models work: rules, scoring and machine learning classifiers, and how to evaluate and explain them.
- Clear with clients; willing to work at client sites and travel
- React; FastAPI or a similar framework.
- Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines.
- Agent frameworks and protocols (LangGraph, MCP), vector search, knowledge graphs.
- Evaluating model outputs: test sets, metrics, red-teaming.
- Networking and systems basics: DNS, TLS, load balancers, monitoring.
- Security basics: OWASP Top 10, secrets management.
- A cloud certification from any provider; internships, open-source work, hackathons, or a project other people actually used.
- A BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related field from a strong US university, graduating in 2025 or 2026, with a strong academic record.
- Builders: a GitHub profile or portfolio with real projects, not only coursework.
- Clear writers: can explain a design on one page and a decision in one paragraph.
- People who own outcomes, learn fast, are comfortable with open problems, and can switch between building the platform and working with a client's team on any of them when needed.
Nice to have skills:
- React; FastAPI or a similar framework.
- Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines.
- Agent frameworks and protocols (LangGraph, MCP), vector search, knowledge graphs.
- Evaluating model outputs: test sets, metrics, red-teaming.
- Networking and systems basics: DNS, TLS, load balancers, monitoring.
- Security basics: OWASP Top 10, secrets management.
- A cloud certification from any provider; internships, open-source work, hackathons, or a project other people actually used.
Education:
- A BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related field from a strong US university.
Zensar believes that diversity of backgrounds, thought, experience, and expertise fosters the robust exchange of ideas that enables the highest quality collaboration and work product. Zensar is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law. Zensar is committed to providing veteran employment opportunities to our service men and women. Zensar is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for people with disabilities or religious observances, including reasonable accommodation when needed. Accommodation made to facilitate the recruiting process are not a guarantee of future or continued accommodation once hired. All applicants must be legally authorized to work with Zensar. Visa sponsorship may be available for qualified applicants for certain positions. Zensar values your privacy. We’ll use your data in accordance with our privacy statement located at: https://zensar.com/privacy-notice
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