Senior AI Innovation Engineer

As a Senior Member of the Innovation team, you will interface across all areas of the company: partnering directly with Marketing, Sales, PMO, GTM, Delivery, and Operations to build solutions that leverage genAI to improve efficiency and reduce toil across the company. This is not a research role. This is a shipping role.

Think early-stage startup engineer inside a growing, profitable consulting firm. You need deep technical curiosity, effective technical judgment and taste, cross-discipline skill sets, and the ability to pick up new languages and frameworks with support from passionate technologists and a deep bench of AWS experience. We are looking for someone who classifies themselves as a "builder," has great empathy for users, leaves their ego at the door, and is energized by developing enterprise-grade, secure, production genAI tools and services.

Location:  LATAM 100% Remote. Working hours are based on the US Pacific Time Zone. Minimum 6-hour overlap

About the Company:

Abstra is a fast-growing, Nearshore Tech Talent services company, providing top Latin American tech talent to U.S. companies and beyond. Founded by U.S.-bred engineers with over 15 years of experience, Abstra specializes in sourcing skilled professionals across a wide range of technologies to meet our clients’ needs, driving innovation and efficiency.

Key Responsibilities:

You will design, build, and operate internal tools and services such as:

• Workflow automation - Event-driven systems that eliminate manual processes across commercial operations, delivery, and managed services

• GenAI-powered applications - Production-grade tools using LLMs, RAG architectures, and agentic patterns to augment or replace human-intensive knowledge work

• Internal platform capabilities - APIs, data pipelines, and integrations that connect the companies business systems and unlock new automation possibilities 

• Solution accelerators - Reusable components and patterns that can eventually be packaged and delivered to customers

• Observability and operational tooling - Monitoring, alerting, and reliability infrastructure for the services the team ships

Required Qualifications:

• Application development - Experience architecting and building complex, eventdriven, data-oriented business applications (preferably in Python or equivalent OOP language; polyglot preferred, functional background strongly valued)
• Desire to work across languages - Willingness and ability to pick up new programming languages and technologies as needed
• Modern API design - How to effectively design, deploy, and evolve applications at scale with third-party dependencies (REST, GraphQL, event-driven patterns)
• Security-first mindset - Passionate about user and data security; builds with security as a foundational concern, not a bolt-on
• Data management - Working with databases (SQL and NoSQL), migrations, data analysis, synchronization flows, and ETL. Must know SQL well and have experience working with multiple data sources in complex scenarios
• Cloud (AWS) - Has cloud experience and good AWS working knowledge. Does not need to be an expert; we will support and train up.
• Testing - Experience writing and building testing frameworks (e2e, smoke, integration, unit). If not deeply experienced, can speak clearly about philosophy and approach, particularly as it applies to genAI systems

What We Offer:

• Competitive compensation paid in USD.
• 20 days of paid time off (PTO) per year.
• Opportunities for professional growth and career development.
• Company-provided equipment.
• A collaborative, inclusive, and multicultural work environment.
• The opportunity to contribute to meaningful projects alongside a talented and supportive team.
  

Pre-Employment Verification
As part of our standard onboarding process, candidates who successfully complete the interview process and accept an employment offer will be required to complete an employment verification check, and background check. This process will confirm job titles and dates of employment with two previous employers and is a standard requirement for all new employees joining the company.