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Tulip is a strategic AI platform that provides reusable patterns, tools, and services to make AI-enabled solution delivery easier, safer, and more scalable across the organization. Increasingly, Tulip reaches the business through mobile experiences used by shop crews, field leaders, and operators who are rarely at a desk.\nThe Senior AI Mobile Engineer - Tulip Platform is a hands-on role responsible for designing, building, and shipping the mobile and field-facing experiences that sit on top of Tulip. The focus is user experience and workflow automation: turning manual, paper-based, and desktop-bound processes into fast, intuitive mobile workflows, and integrating Tulip's AI services into the apps and devices field teams use every day. The role also contributes to platform architecture, integration patterns, and engineering standards, and mentors peers through design discussion and code review.\nThe ideal candidate is a pragmatic builder and strong technical partner who obsesses over the end-user experience, designs for real shop and field conditions including intermittent connectivity and one-handed use, navigates ambiguity, and consistently delivers high-quality, AI-enabled mobile solutions aligned to business priorities.\nJob Qualifications\n8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant hands-on experience building and shipping production mobile applications (iOS, Android, or cross-platform such as React Native or Flutter). \nDemonstrated focus on user experience: partnering with design, prototyping and testing with real users, and shipping interfaces that are fast, accessible, and intuitive for non-technical frontline staff. \nExperience automating manual and paper-based workflows into mobile-first digital processes, including offline-first data capture, sync and conflict resolution, push notifications, camera and barcode scanning, and location-aware features. \nExperience integrating AI-enabled services into end-user applications, including large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, agent or workflow orchestration, conversational and voice interfaces, and responsible AI guardrails at the point of use. \nStrong API and integration skills: consuming and shaping REST, GraphQL, and event-driven services, and working with backend and platform engineers to make mobile clients performant and resilient. \nExperience with mobile release and quality practices: app store and enterprise distribution, MDM-managed devices, CI/CD for mobile builds, crash and performance monitoring, automated UI testing, and phased rollouts. \nWorking proficiency in Python or a comparable backend language, with enough platform and cloud fluency (Azure, AWS, or GCP; containers; CI/CD; observability) to extend Tulip services where the mobile experience requires it. \nExperience securing mobile and enterprise integrations, including OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect, SSO on shared and personal devices, on-device data protection, and secrets management. \nStrong communication skills, with the ability to work directly with field and operations teams to observe how work actually gets done and translate that into technical designs and executable engineering work. \nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field preferred, or equivalent practical experience. \nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience building mobile or frontline applications for retail, restaurant, field service, logistics, or other deskless workforces. \nExperience with design systems, accessibility standards, usability testing, and instrumenting product analytics to measure adoption and task completion. \nFamiliarity with Azure AI, Azure OpenAI, Microsoft Fabric, vector search, prompt orchestration, or agentic AI frameworks, and with enterprise AI governance and responsible AI controls. \nExperience integrating mobile experiences with enterprise systems such as POS, scheduling, inventory, learning, ticketing, or identity platforms. \nExperience working in retail, restaurant, ecommerce, loyalty, finance, supply chain, or high-volume enterprise environments. \nExperience partnering with product managers, designers, business analysts, forward deployed engineers, and enterprise architects to move ideas from field discovery to delivery. \nSkills\nMobile application engineering (iOS, Android, or cross-platform) and hands-on delivery \nUser experience design partnership, prototyping, usability testing, and accessibility \nWorkflow automation and digitization of manual, paper-based, and field processes \nOffline-first design, device capabilities, push notifications, and mobile performance tuning \nAPI, integration, and eventing patterns across enterprise and AI services \nLLM, RAG, agentic workflows, and AI evaluation applied to end-user experiences \nPython, SQL, cloud-native engineering, and secure service design \nMobile CI/CD, release management, crash and performance monitoring, and automated testing \nField discovery, stakeholder communication, and translating operational needs into product \nPeer mentorship, engineering standards, design reviews, and code quality \nShop Technology:\nPreferred experience supporting mobile applications in shared-device or frontline retail environments, including Jamf-managed Apple devices, intermittent connectivity, production monitoring, and integration with POS, workforce, identity, and other shop technology platforms.\nKey Result Areas (KRAs)\nThese KRAs describe the primary outcomes expected from this role and how success will be evaluated.\nMobile Experience and Product Delivery\nDesign, build, and ship mobile experiences on Tulip that field and shop teams find fast, intuitive, and worth using every shift.\nExample Measures: Adoption and active usage, task completion time, app quality ratings, crash-free sessions\nWorkflow Automation in the Field\nReplace manual, paper-based, and desktop-bound steps with automated mobile workflows, using AI capabilities such as orchestration, RAG, agents, and conversational interfaces where they add real value.\nExample Measures: Processes automated, hours returned to field teams, error and rework reduction\nIntegration and Platform Contribution\nIntegrate mobile experiences with Tulip services and enterprise systems, and extend platform capabilities where the experience requires it.\nExample Measures: Integration reliability, reusable client patterns, delivery predictability\nEngineering Excellence\nApply and improve practices for secure, maintainable, testable, and observable mobile and service engineering, including release management and phased rollouts.\nExample Measures: Code quality, test coverage, release stability, defect reduction\nEngineering Practices and Knowledge Sharing\nContribute to documentation, design reviews, and shared UI and integration patterns that strengthen how the team builds mobile AI solutions.\nExample Measures: Improved team clarity, stronger handoffs, repeatable delivery practices\nBusiness Alignment and Value Realization\nSpend time in shops and with field leaders, translate what you observe into product decisions, and tie delivered experiences to measurable business value.\nExample Measures: Field feedback loops, stakeholder alignment, business impact tracking\nWays of Working\nThis role is a hands-on individual contributor with no people management responsibility. The Senior AI Mobile Engineer ships user-facing experiences, contributes to technical decisions, supports roadmap execution through their own delivery, mentors less experienced engineers, and models practices that improve quality, velocity, and consistency. Success requires deep technical execution paired with genuine curiosity about how field teams work, and clear communication across product, design, architecture, engineering, and business partners.\nLocation Requirement\nLocation expectations should be confirmed through the People and Talent process. Draft assumption: Tempe, Arizona / hybrid, aligned to current Client's Technology in-office guidance.\nPhysical Requirements / Work Environment\nThis position operates in a professional office or remote work environment and routinely uses standard office equipment. It also includes periodic time in Client's shops and other field locations to observe workflows, test mobile experiences in live conditions, and gather user feedback, which may involve standing for extended periods, exposure to typical shop noise and temperatures, and occasional travel. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions\nCompensation, Benefits and Duration\nMinimum Compensation: USD 56,000\nMaximum Compensation: USD 196,000\nCompensation is based on actual experience and qualifications of the candidate. 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