Senior AI Productivity Engineer

Senior AI Productivity Engineer

Thoriva · Remote · Full-Time

Thoriva, an Infinite Company, is seeking a hands-on Senior AI Productivity Engineer to help product and technical teams supporting Thoriva Loan Platforms identify, implement, adopt, and continuously improve AI-enabled ways of working. This role will partner directly with developers, business analysts, quality assurance engineers, architects, operations teams, and product leaders to turn practical day-to-day needs into secure, measurable productivity improvements.

The ideal candidate combines software engineering and applied AI experience with the patience, credibility, and interpersonal effectiveness needed to help individuals learn new approaches and build confidence using them. This person will evaluate new tools, expand the use of AI capabilities already available within enterprise products, build targeted automations and agents, lead training and adoption, and report results using balanced measures of efficiency, quality, risk, and user experience.

ABOUT THE COMPANY

Thoriva is an AI technology company delivering intelligent, data-driven solutions to transform government operations. We combine AI solutions, commercial expertise, and complex business logic to address government and federal agencies’ biggest challenges.

JOB SUMMARY

As the Senior AI Productivity Engineer, you will own a practical program for applying AI to the software delivery lifecycle and related product operations for Thoriva Loan Platforms. You will work alongside teams supporting mainframe and COBOL applications, open-system applications built with technologies such as .NET and Java, scripting and automation solutions, test platforms, operational tooling, and technical documentation.

You will identify high-value opportunities, prototype and implement solutions, define safe-use patterns, coach teams through adoption, and measure whether each capability improves real work. Solutions may include commercially available AI tools, AI features embedded in existing products, internally developed AI agents and multi-agent workflows, or integrations that securely connect approved models with development tools, enterprise systems, and knowledge sources. The role is expected to remain close to users after rollout, identifying repeatable tasks appropriate for agent-based automation and using feedback and observed workflow needs to refine solutions and improve adoption over time.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with product and technical teams to understand daily workflows, recurring friction, manual effort, quality concerns, and knowledge gaps that may be improved through AI-assisted tools or automation.

• Create and maintain an AI productivity roadmap that prioritizes opportunities based on business value, user impact, implementation effort, technical feasibility, security, compliance, and measurable outcomes.

• Evaluate new AI productivity products and identify useful AI capabilities within existing enterprise tools; lead structured pilots, document findings, and recommend adoption, refinement, or retirement decisions.

• Design, prototype, and implement AI-assisted workflows, agents, integrations, prompts, scripts, and reusable components that support technical and product delivery.

• Enable productivity use cases such as code generation and completion, code explanation, refactoring, legacy-code understanding and documentation generation, unit-test generation, code review assistance, defect analysis, debugging support, and secure dependency or vulnerability remediation.

• Develop solutions for document ingestion, classification, summarization, comparison, traceability, and knowledge retrieval, including extraction of requirements, business rules, acceptance criteria, dependencies, risks, and open questions from complex source materials.

• Apply AI to accelerate creation and maintenance of functional requirements, technical designs, architecture documentation, data mappings, test plans, test cases, test data strategies, release notes, runbooks, knowledge articles, and other software lifecycle artifacts.

• Define agent operating boundaries, permissions, data access, escalation paths, approval points, exception handling, observability, and audit requirements so automated actions remain secure, explainable, reversible where appropriate, and accountable to a human owner.

• Explore AI-assisted test automation, including generation and maintenance of test scenarios and scripts, regression-impact analysis, synthetic test data support, defect clustering, and analysis of test results across mainframe and distributed applications.

• Support modernization and knowledge-transfer activities by helping teams analyze COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, batch processing, interfaces, .NET, Java, APIs, databases, and scripts without losing critical business context or established controls.

• Define reusable prompting, context-management, retrieval, evaluation, and human-review practices appropriate for regulated, business-critical software environments.

• Establish training and enablement plans that include role-based learning, demonstrations, hands-on working sessions, office hours, job aids, champions, and follow-up coaching tailored to different experience and confidence levels.

• Work directly with individuals and teams during adoption, listen to concerns, respond constructively to feedback, and adjust tools and methods so improvements are understandable, practical, and sustainable.

• Define adoption and outcome measures before implementation; report usage, time saved, cycle-time changes, quality indicators, rework, user feedback, and other relevant results without relying on activity volume alone.

• Establish feedback loops and continuously improve solutions based on actual team usage, changing priorities, support needs, model behavior, and lessons learned from production use.

• Partner with security, privacy, legal, architecture, compliance, and technology leaders to ensure approved data handling, access controls, intellectual-property protections, auditability, model governance, and responsible AI practices.

• Stay current on changes in AI-assisted software engineering, agentic automation, developer tooling, model capabilities, and industry practices; translate relevant developments into practical recommendations for Thoriva teams.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of progressively responsible experience in AI adoption, software engineering, developer productivity, DevOps, test automation, technical enablement, applied AI, or a related technology role, including hands-on delivery of solutions used by technical teams.

• Demonstrated ability to help legacy software development teams adopt AI-first practices.

• 5C public trust security clearance (or the ability to be granted applicable clearance).

• The ability to accommodate occasional travel (less than 10%) to Indianapolis, IN and/or metropolitan Washington DC.

• Demonstrated experience identifying workflow problems, prototyping technical solutions, leading pilots, supporting production adoption, and measuring results.

• Hands-on experience with generative AI, agentic AI, and large language model capabilities, including prompt design, structured outputs, RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) implementations, tool use, agent design, multi-step orchestration, MCP (model context protocol) implementations, and human-in-the-loop controls.

• Strong software engineering foundation and proficiency with one or more general-purpose or scripting languages such as Python, Java, C#, JavaScript/TypeScript, or comparable technologies.

• Experience integrating AI capabilities with repositories, document stores, development environments, issue-tracking systems, CI/CD pipelines, APIs, databases, monitoring platforms, or enterprise collaboration tools.

• Working knowledge of the software development lifecycle, requirements analysis, source control, code review, testing, release management, production support, incident management, and technical documentation.

• Ability to work across legacy and modern technology environments and to learn unfamiliar platforms, languages, business rules, and operational processes quickly.

• Demonstrated ability to develop training materials, facilitate hands-on learning, coach users with varied technical backgrounds, and sustain adoption after initial rollout.

• Strong communication, facilitation, listening, and relationship-building skills, with the patience and judgment to help teams learn, challenge ineffective practices constructively, and build trust during change.

• Experience defining meaningful productivity, adoption, quality, or engineering-effectiveness measures and communicating results to technical teams and leadership.

• Strong understanding of responsible AI, data privacy, secure development, access control, intellectual-property risk, model limitations, and the need for accountable human validation of AI-generated outputs.

• Ability to manage multiple initiatives, make practical tradeoffs, document decisions, and operate effectively in a fast-paced, highly regulated, and collaborative environment.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, information systems, data science, or related field, or equivalent professional experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting student loan servicing, financial services, government contracting, public-sector technology, or another highly regulated environment.

• Experience evaluating AI usage and token consumption to recommend the most cost-effective tool for each use case.

• Advanced degree in AI (i.e., Master of Science in AI)

• Familiarity with mainframe application development and operations, including COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, batch processing, and integration with distributed systems.

• Experience with .NET, Java, APIs, SQL, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, cloud services, and modern application development practices.

• Experience with AI coding assistants, enterprise copilots, model APIs, orchestration frameworks, vector databases, semantic search, document intelligence, or agent-development platforms.

• Experience designing evaluations for generative AI solutions, including accuracy, safety, security, reliability, latency, cost, and user acceptance.

• Experience applying organizational change management, learning, developer experience, product management, or continuous improvement practices to technology adoption.

• Experience building secure proof-of-concept solutions and transitioning successful prototypes into governed, supportable enterprise capabilities.

• Experience with agent-development or orchestration platforms, model tool-calling, workflow state management, identity and authorization for agents, agent monitoring, and controlled integration with enterprise applications and APIs.

• Relevant certifications or formal training in artificial intelligence, cloud platforms, software engineering, DevOps, security, agile delivery, change management, or instructional design.

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive base salary commensurate with experience and scope of the role

• Comprehensive benefits package including health, dental, vision, 401(k), and paid time off (PTO)

• Flexibility for remote work

• Significant influence over how Thoriva structures and scales its loan platforms, with direct access to the CEO and leadership team