AI Software Engineer III

Contract to Hire Cincinnati, OH 1 month ago Location Cincinnati, OH Job Type Contract to Hire Posted 1 month ago

For more than three decades, Strategic Data Systems (SDS) has been a software consultancy firm specializing in strategy, technology, and business transformation for Fortune 100 companies, mid-sized firms, and startups. At SDS, we empower our development teams to address our clients’ critical business challenges by leveraging cutting edge technologies. If you seek a workplace where your contributions are truly appreciated, then SDS is the company for you.

Join us today to work alongside fellow development specialists and become a crucial part of our dynamic and cohesive community.

Job Title: AI Software Engineer III

Location:
Farmington Hills, MI/ Cincinnati, OH (Downtown) PREFERRED > REMOTE EST/CST OK

Years of

Experience:

5-8

CONTRACT TO HIRE - MUST BE ABLE TO CONVERT TO FTE W/O SPONSORSHIP

TOP

SKILLS:

• AWS
• Python
• Terraform
• Type Script
• AWS Bedrock is a PLUS!
• LLM integration patterns — prompt injection detection, guardrail design, or output filtering

What You’ll Do

We are looking for a AI Software Engineer to join our AI agentic engineering team. You will design and deliver guardrail components across services
, define where and how enforcement should occur in systems, and mentor engineers on safe design and defensive programming patterns. You will also architect backend services, APIs, and integrations that apply software engineering discipline to govern how AI-driven systems behave across the engineering workflow.

This is a hands‑on technical leadership role requiring strong proficiency in Python and Type Script, a track record of delivering cross‑service systems, and the ability to define enforcement patterns that other engineers follow.

What You'll Do

• Design and deliver backend services and APIs that enforce system behavior across multiple services
• Define where and how enforcement, filtering, and validation should occur within system architectures
• Build cross‑service controls and establish the patterns other engineers implement against
• Instrument and improve observability across service boundaries — structured logging, metrics, distributed tracing
• Own shared tooling and platform components with broad organizational reach
• Mentor engineers on safe design, defensive programming, and failure handling practices

Core Capabilities

• Writes production‑quality code with strong proficiency in Python and Type Script
• Demonstrates advanced experience working in cloud environments (AWS)
• Demonstrates advanced experience working with Infrastructure as code tools in production environments
• Designs and implements scalable backend services and APIs across service boundaries
• Defines enforcement patterns and interface contracts consumed by other teams
• Thinks in systems — reasons about cross‑service dependencies, failure propagation, and contract stability
• Communicates defensive design principles clearly to other engineers
• Shows strong technical curiosity and forms clear, experience‑backed opinions

What Differentiates This Role

This role is focused on how systems behave under misuse, failure, or unexpected inputs — not on building user‑facing features. At this level, you are defining where enforcement lives and how it works across services, not just implementing within one. You bring both the technical depth to build these systems and the communication skills to make the patterns repeatable by others.

What You Will Bring

• 5–8 years of software engineering experience with strong proficiency in Python and Type Script
• Demonstrated experience delivering production
  systems on AWS (Lambda, Fargate, API Gateway)
• Demonstrated experience building production
  systems on AWS using Terraform…