Software Developer, AI Engineer, Cloud Computing

This is a 6 month contract right to hire role. Must be a Citizen or Green Card Holder. Hybrid schedule 3 days onsite.

We are seeking an AI Software Engineer to help bridge advanced AI capabilities with modern education systems. This role focuses on integrating AI-powered tools into existing school infrastructure, ensuring seamless interoperability with School Information Systems (SIS), Learning Management Systems (LMS), and other core education platforms.

The ideal candidate brings strong experience in software integrations, API design, automation, and cloud-native architectures, with the ability to design scalable, event-driven workflows that enhance operational efficiency and learning outcomes across educational environments.

• Design, develop, and maintain integrations between AI models and education platforms, including SIS, LMS, student data systems, and assessment tools.
• Build and manage integrations with common education platforms such as Power School, Infinite Campus, Blackbaud, Canvas, Moodle, Google Classroom, and Microsoft Teams for Education.
• Develop middleware services, APIs, and automation scripts that enable AI-driven workflows for grading, student engagement analysis, and predictive insights.
• Implement and manage RESTful APIs, Graph
  
  QL APIs, gRPC services, and webhooks to ensure reliable communication between AI systems and school infrastructure.
• Automate data ingestion, transformation, and synchronization using ETL pipelines and API-driven workflows.
• Integrate LLM-based AI assistants, chatbots, and recommendation engines to enhance instructional and administrative experiences.
• Utilize low-code and no-code automation tools where appropriate to accelerate solution delivery.
• Architect real-time, event-driven data pipelines using Pub/Sub, Kafka, and webhook-based patterns.
• Implement secure authentication and authorization using OAuth 2.0, SAML, JWT, and OpenID Connect.
• Ensure compliance with FERPA and other education data privacy regulations.
• Partner with IAM solutions to manage access controls and permissions for AI-powered systems.
• Collaborate closely with AI, data engineering, and Dev Ops teams to deploy integrations in AWS and GCP environments.
• Develop and maintain serverless automation using AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, and Azure Functions.
• Implement orchestration and workflow automation using Step Functions, Event Bridge, and Pub/Sub.
• Work directly with educators and administrators to define integration requirements and identify automation opportunities.

• Experience in software integration, API development, or automation engineering.
• Hands-on experience working with SIS, LMS, or education technology platforms.
• Strong proficiency with API design, automation workflows, and event-driven architectures.
• Experience with cloud-native integration tools across AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Strong problem-solving skills with an automation-first mindset.
• Ability to collaborate cross-functionally with AI, cloud, and data engineering teams.
• Familiarity with LLMs and AI-powered automation tools is a plus.

• RESTful APIs, Graph
  
  QL, gRPC
• OAuth 2.0, JWT, SAML, OpenID Connect
• Postman, Swagger (OpenAPI), API Gateway
• AWS: Lambda, Step Functions, API Gateway, Event Bridge, S3, DynamoDB
• GCP: Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub, Firestore, Big Query
• Python, Node.js, FastAPI, Flask, Express.js
• ETL tools:
  Talend, dbt
• Messaging & Streaming:
  Kafka, Rabbit
  
  MQ, Redis Pub/Sub

• IAM and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)