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Join our world-class team today and fulfill your career potential!\nThe Opportunity\n\nThe myFICO Scores B2C Software Engineering team is hiring an Applied AI engineer to own the quality, safety, and performance of our AI-powered consumer features. As myFICO expands its AI-powered product features, this role combines Python and Java backend engineering with hands-on LLM experience to own how our assistants are prompted, evaluated, guarded, and improved. You will treat AI quality as something we measure and build the tooling our analysts and QA engineers rely on.\nWhat You’ll Contribute\n\nOwn the system prompts, tool descriptions, and evaluation prompts behind Personalized Credit Insights and the AI chat assistant, improving them using production evidence.\nBuild and grow the evaluation framework: turn production failures into test cases, run regression suites before every prompt or model change, and report results the business can trust.\nMeasure and improve LLM-based evaluator reliability by comparing against human-labeled data and tracking precision, recall, and agreement over time.\nDesign, tune, and monitor guardrails, including input and output classifiers, PII redaction, prompt-injection defenses, and financial-advice compliance rules defined with Legal and Compliance.\nLead model upgrades by re-running evaluations, comparing quality, cost, and latency, and shipping safely through A/B tests.\nReduce cost and latency with prompt caching, model routing, and context management.\nBuild tools for Conversation Analysts and QA engineers, such as transcript viewers, labeling workflows, and dashboards.\nPartner with Analytics, Legal, and Compliance on fairness and bias evaluation of AI outputs.\nLeverage AI coding assistants and agentic workflows (Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot) to accelerate delivery, with the judgment to review and refine their output.\nWhat We’re Seeking\n\nBachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, with demonstrated professional software engineering experience, strong Python, and the ability to read and contribute to Java (Spring Boot) microservices.\nProven experience building and operating LLM-powered applications in production, including prompt design, tool calling, structured outputs, and streaming.\nDemonstrated experience building evaluations for LLM systems: test sets, regression suites, and LLM-as-judge approaches, including measuring evaluator quality against human labels.\nWorking knowledge of Amazon Bedrock or a comparable managed LLM platform, and AWS services such as S3, Lambda, and DynamoDB.\nProficient SQL and comfort analyzing production data in a data warehouse such as Amazon Redshift.\nProduction ownership, including code review, CI/CD, release management, and on-call support, within Agile/Scrum teams.\nStrong written and verbal communication, with the ability to explain evaluation results and tradeoffs to product, legal, and executive stakeholders.\nExperience with guardrail tooling, LLM security testing, RAG and retrieval evaluation, fairness and bias evaluation, model migrations, observability tools such as Datadog, BI tools such as Tableau, or regulated domains (FCRA, ECOA, UDAAP, CFPB guidance) is a plus.\nOur Offer to You\nAn inclusive culture strongly reflecting our core values: Act Like an Owner, Delight Our Customers and Earn the Respect of Others.\nThe opportunity to make an impact and develop professionally by leveraging your unique strengths and participating in valuable learning experiences.\nHighly competitive compensation, benefits and rewards programs that encourage you to bring your best every day and be recognized for doing so.\nAn engaging, people-first work environment offering work/life balance, employee resource groups, and social events to promote interaction and camaraderie.\nThe targeted base pay range for this role is: $105,000 to $165,000 with this range reflecting differences in candidate knowledge, skills and experience.\nWhy Make a Move to FICO?\nAt FICO, you can develop your career with a leading organization in one of the fastest-growing fields in technology today - Big Data analytics. You’ll play a part in our commitment to help businesses use data to improve every choice they make, using advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, optimization, and much more.\nFICO makes a real difference in the way businesses operate worldwide:\nCredit Scoring - FICO® Scores are used by 90 of the top 100 US lenders.\nFraud Detection and Security - 4 billion payment cards globally are protected by FICO fraud systems.\nLending - 3/4 of US mortgages are approved using the FICO Score.\nGlobal trends toward digital transformation have created tremendous demand for FICO’s solutions, placing us among the world’s top 100 software companies by revenue. We help many of the world’s largest banks, insurers, retailers, telecommunications providers and other firms reach a new level of success. Our success is dependent on really talented people - just like you - who thrive on the collaboration and innovation that’s nurtured by a diverse and inclusive environment. We’ll provide the support you need, while ensuring you have the freedom to develop your skills and grow your career. Join FICO and help change the way business thinks!\nLearn more about how you can fulfil your potential at www.fico.com/Careers\nFICO promotes a culture of inclusion and seeks to attract a diverse set of candidates for each job opportunity. We are an equal employment opportunity employer and we’re proud to offer employment and advancement opportunities to all candidates without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, pregnancy, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Research has shown that women and candidates from underrepresented communities may not apply for an opportunity if they don’t meet all stated qualifications. 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