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Senior Fullstack AI Engineer

Spectra Force
Des Moines, IA Contractor
POSTED ON 8/11/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 12/31/2026
Job Title – Senior Fullstack AI Engineer Duration – 6 Months Location – 3 Days Onsite at Des Moines, IA Job Description: Interview Process: Internal & Client **Interviews will include a live coding assessment** Job Summary: 6–8 years of software engineering experience with strong hands-on development experience in modern application engineering. Strong experience with Node.js / TypeScript; this is the non-negotiable primary language requirement for the role. Strong experience building backend/platform-oriented full-stack solutions, including APIs, services, databases, cloud deployment, and operational support. Strong AWS experience is required. Candidates should have hands-on experience with services such as API Gateway, Lambda, Bedrock, S3, Event Bridge, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, CloudWatch, CDK, and Fargate. Bedrock is required. Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) is required, ideally with strong hands-on use of AWS CDK. CDK is explicitly required for this role. At least 1 year of hands-on experience building Generative AI solutions, ideally in RAG/search-based AI, chatbot/copilot experiences, or enterprise knowledge assistants. RAG/chatbot experience is sufficient for this hire Practical understanding of prompt engineering and how prompt design impacts grounding, reliability, usability, and output quality. Working knowledge of retrieval and generation concepts such as embeddings, chunking, semantic retrieval, vector search, top-k, top-p, and related controls that influence response behavior and quality. Basic hands-on familiarity with guardrails / safety controls / output validation, including awareness of risks like hallucinations, prompt injection, jailbreak attempts, and content-safety concerns. Experience building and shipping enterprise-grade APIs/services that connect AI capabilities into real business workflows. Strong software engineering fundamentals including testing, debugging, source control, and CI/CD. Strong collaboration and communication skills; we need a collaborative, high-output builder who works well with product, engineering, QA, architecture, security, and business stakeholders. Required Skills: Strong experience with Node.js / TypeScript; this is the non-negotiable primary language requirement for the role. Strong experience building backend/platform-oriented full-stack solutions, including APIs, services, databases, cloud deployment, and operational support. Strong AWS experience is required. Candidates should have hands-on experience with services such as API Gateway, Lambda, Bedrock, S3, EventBridge, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, CloudWatch, CDK, and Fargate. Bedrock is required. Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) is required, ideally with strong hands-on use of AWS CDK. CDK is explicitly required for this role. At least 1 year of hands-on experience building Generative AI solutions, ideally in RAG/search-based AI, chatbot/copilot experiences, or enterprise knowledge assistants. RAG/chatbot experience is sufficient for this hire

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