AI Engineer (Full-Stack)

Athene Holding • West Des Moines, IA

81d

About The Position

Athene is accelerating its AI initiatives to transform how we serve customers, agents, and business partners. As a leader in insurance and annuities, we are committed to applying Generative AI, Agentic AI, and Machine Learning to drive operational excellence and deliver innovative products. We're seeking a Full-Stack AI Engineer to help scale our next-generation AI capabilities across sales, marketing, finance, risk management, product development, claims, and enterprise productivity. You'll join a small, cross-functional team building AI-native solutions from the ground up-rapidly prototyping, experimenting with new capabilities, and moving fast from concept to production. This is a high-impact role where you'll collaborate with designers, product managers, and engineers in a maker-driven environment. You'll work hands-on with Generative AI and intelligent agents, both in the features we deliver and in your daily development workflow.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 5+ years in software engineering or data science, with 1+ year in GenAI/LLM/Agentic AI.
• Proficiency in Python, REST APIs, React/Node.js, and cloud-native infrastructure (Docker, CI/CD).
• Hands-on experience with AWS AI services (Bedrock, SageMaker, Textract, Translate, etc.).
• Strong knowledge of LLMs, embeddings, prompt engineering, and tool use.
• Proven ability to prototype, iterate, and scale AI-enabled features.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with compliance/regulatory needs in insurance or financial services (preferred).
• AI-first developer mindset: using AI for scaffolding, testing, and refactoring code.

Responsibilities

• Build, deploy, and optimize full-stack AI-powered applications using LLMs, intelligent agents, and ML.
• Design and scale RAG pipelines, vector search systems, and LLM evaluation workflows.
• Create AI agents with frameworks such as LangChain, AutoGen, LlamaIndex, or LangGraph.
• Ingest and process unstructured/structured data (parsing, chunking, embeddings, retrieval).
• Develop intuitive user experiences powered by LLMs and AI agents for real-time workflows.
• Integrate enterprise AI tools such as Claude, GPT-4/4o, ChatGPT Enterprise, Copilot, Glean, and Shelf.
• Drive document automation and multilingual NLP (summarization, translation, NER).
• Implement observability, governance, and responsible AI practices in compliance with regulations.
• Collaborate with IT, data, compliance, and business leaders to deliver business-facing solutions.

Benefits

• Athene is a Military Friendly Employer.
• Commitment to inclusion and equal opportunity.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Management of Companies and Enterprises
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees