Senior AI Developer

Get to Know Us:

It's fun to work in a company where people truly believe in what they're doing!

At Black Line, we're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business of enterprise applications.

Since being founded in 2001, Black Line has become a leading provider of cloud software that automates and controls the entire financial close process. Our vision is to modernize the finance and accounting function to enable greater operational effectiveness and agility, and we are committed to delivering innovative solutions and services to empower accounting and finance leaders around the world to achieve Modern Finance.

Being a best-in-class SaaS Company, we understand that bringing in new ideas and innovative technology is mission critical. At Black Line we are always working with new, cutting edge technology that encourages our teams to learn something new and expand their creativity and technical skillset that will accelerate their careers.

Work, Play and Grow at Black Line!

Make Your Mark:

As a Senior AI Developer on Black Line's Corporate AI team, you will play a pivotal role in bringing AI to every corner of the company. You'll design and deliver enterprise-grade AI agents that transform data into actionable insights, streamline internal workflows, and help teams across the business make better, faster decisions. In this highly visible role, you'll partner directly with business leaders and be trusted to shape, build, and launch AI solutions end to end.

You'll Get To:

* Design, build, and ship AI agents and applications using tools such as Vertex AI, Anthropic, and cloud-based AI services, focusing on internal/enterprise use cases.

* Translate business problems into AI solutions by working directly with stakeholders to clarify needs, define requirements, and propose impactful use cases.

* Own the full development lifecycle-from requirements and design, to coding, testing, deployment, and iterative enhancement.

* Launch short-term AI agents and features within a quarter, consistently meeting release dates and timelines.

* Integrate AI agents with enterprise systems, APIs, and internal tools, creating seamless, end-to-end workflows that fit into how teams already work.

* Monitor and support AI solutions in production, investigating issues, improving performance, and refining user experience based on feedback and metrics.

* Contribute to team-wide standards and best practices for AI development, including coding patterns, observability, and governance.

* Collaborate closely with a small global AI team (US and India) and contractors, sharing context, reviewing code, and jointly owning deliverables.

* Provide knowledge transfer and occasional mentoring, helping others understand how to effectively leverage AI tools and patterns.

What You'll Bring:

* 3+ years of Senior-level software development experience, including at least 2+ years focused on AI development in an enterprise environment.

* Strong programming skills in one or more languages used for AI and cloud development (e.g., Python, Java, or similar).

* Hands-on experience building applications or agents with generative AI platforms, such as:

* Google Cloud Vertex AI

* Anthropic models and associated SDKs/ADKs

* Other major cloud AI APIs and services

* Agentic frameworks like Lang Chain or Llama Index to build, chain, and deploy LLM-powered applications.

* Proven experience delivering production-grade AI solutions, not just prototypes-covering reliability, maintainability, and scalability.

* Experience implementing RAG architectures using vector databases such as Vertex AI Vector Search, Pinecone, or Weaviate.

* Advanced prompt engineering skills and a deep understanding of how to design, test, and optimize prompts for specific outcomes within agents.

* Experience developing software that adheres to enterprise security and compliance standards

* Demonstrated ability to clarify ambiguous requirements, think analytically, and design practical solutions to operational and functional problems.

* Excellent communication skills, with a track record of partnering directly with business leads to gather requirements, present options, and align on outcomes.

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