Software Engineer, AI & Automation

NerdWallet
United States
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 127,000 - 207,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 3+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Collaboration","Problem-solving","Working through ambiguity"]

Build production AI-enabled systems and automation workflows for NerdWallet Security, making security engineering more scalable, effective, and developer-friendly. You’ll design multi-agent and RAG/semantic search experiences, create automated code-review capabilities, and develop Python services and APIs with strong architecture, security controls, reliability, and observability. Collaborate with engineers and security partners to turn high-value ideas into ongoing operations in an AI-native security environment.

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NerdWallet
NerdWallet
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Software Engineer, AI & Automation

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Job Summary

Build production AI-enabled systems and automation workflows for NerdWallet Security, making security engineering more scalable, effective, and developer-friendly. You’ll design multi-agent and RAG/semantic search experiences, create automated code-review capabilities, and develop Python services and APIs with strong architecture, security controls, reliability, and observability. Collaborate with engineers and security partners to turn high-value ideas into ongoing operations in an AI-native security environment.
Location: United States
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design and build AI-enabled workflows and multi-agent systems to automate security review, threat modeling, policy Q&A, and vulnerability analysis.
  • •Develop retrieval and semantic search experiences across code and documentation repositories.
  • •Create automated code-review capabilities that detect insecure patterns earlier in the development lifecycle.
  • •Build and operate production Python services and APIs powering AI-enabled security workflows with robust architecture, security, testing, and observability.
  • •Design scalable pipelines to ingest, process, index, and retrieve large volumes of code, documents, and events; improve AI system quality via evaluation and iteration.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 127,000 - 207,000 annually
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionParental LeaveSabbatical401kDisability InsuranceLife InsuranceWifi StipendHome OfficeCo-working SpaceCell PhoneVolunteer Time

Key Requirements

  • •3+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production software.
  • •Strong Python proficiency building backend services and APIs.
  • •Experience designing maintainable backend architectures (validation, authentication/authorization, error handling, testing, observability).
  • •Hands-on experience building production AI-enabled applications/automations using LLM APIs, agents/tool use, and RAG/retrieval.
  • •Ability to evaluate and improve AI-enabled systems in production and communicate tradeoffs clearly.
Experience:3+ years
Skills:CommunicationCollaborationProblem-solvingWorking through ambiguity
Tech Stack:PythonAPIsLLM APIsAgentsRAGRetrievalSemantic searchGitHubSlackJiraConfluenceAuthenticationAuthorizationTestingObservabilityMulti-agent systemsPrompt injection defensesRetrieval-augmented generation

Company Brief

NerdWallet
NerdWallet provides personal finance guidance, comparison tools, and financial product recommendations (credit cards, mortgages, insurance, loans) to help consumers and small businesses make informed money decisions via content, calculators, and advisory services.
Industry: Publishing
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Revenue: USD 500M to 1B
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2009
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