Software Engineer - Applied AI - HashiCorp Vault

IBM

IBM

Software Engineering, Data Science

California, USA · Texas City, TX, USA

Posted on Apr 20, 2026
Introduction

A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's challenges into industry-leading solutions. We are an infinitely curious team, always seeking new possibilities, and dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our network of IBMers. We are a team of deep product experts, ensuring exceptional client experiences, with a focus on delivery, excellence, and obsession over customer outcomes. This position involves contributing to HashiCorp's offerings, now part of IBM, which empower organizations to automate and secure multi-cloud and hybrid environments. You will join a team managing the lifecycle of infrastructure and security, enhancing IBM's cloud solutions to ensure enterprises achieve efficiency, security, and scalability in their cloud journey.

Position Overview:

We are seeking an exceptional AI Engineer to lead our productivity initiatives and drive AI-powered solutions across the organization. This senior role requires a visionary technologist who can architect, implement, and scale intelligent AI tools & systems while mentoring teams and shaping technical strategy.

Your role and responsibilities
  • Design and implement AI-powered workflows to streamline our processes, increase efficiency, and optimize productivity.
  • Integrate large language models (LLMs) and AI services via APIs (e.g., OpenAI, Azure AI, AWS, etc.) to develop intelligent systems.
  • Evaluate and recommend emerging AI technologies and tools.
  • Mentor and guide engineering teams on AI/ML best practices.
  • Optimize automation workflows for performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency.
  • Integrate AI capabilities into existing automation frameworks (RPA, CI/CD, DevOps)
  • Implement MLOps practices for scalable model lifecycle management.
  • Build automated testing frameworks with AI-driven test generation.
  • Build intelligent agents and chatbots using modern AI frameworks.
  • Implement intelligent document processing and data extraction systems.
  • Thorough understanding of privacy, bias, and AI risk considerations.
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
  • 10+ years of experience in Software Development / automation.
  • 3+ years of hands-on experience with AI/ML technologies, including practical experience building agentic AI systems, LLM-powered automation, or AI-driven developer tools
  • Proven track record as an AI Engineer, with portfolio examples of successful machine learning or AI projects. and comprehensive technology solutions
  • Experience with ML, deep learning, TensorFlow, Python, NLP
  • Knowledge of AI's most widely used programming languages, including Python, Java, C++, and R.
  • Experience in model deployment using Docker, REST APIs, or IBM cloud
  • Experience of MLOps tools and practices (e.g., MLflow, Kubeflow, CI/CD pipelines)
  • Ability to work with structured and unstructured data, including preprocessing and transformation.
  • Experience on automation framework like Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, Appium
  • Experience on CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions
Preferred technical and professional experience
  • Experience with workflow and collaboration tooling such as Atlassian Jira
  • Familiarity with Linux environments and container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes, OpenShift)
  • Familiarity with cloud computing services such as AWS, Azure, GCP – Advantage
  • Experience with Terraform, CloudFormation and Ansible - Advantage

Years of Experience:
10 - 15

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence—from machine learning to generative AI—to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM’s AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM’s hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments—a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

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ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

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