Software Engineer - AI Engineer II/III

Applied Medical · Rancho Santa Margarita, CA

$80k – $140k/yrPosted Jul 9, 2026

<img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="https://appliedmedical.icims.com/icims2/servlet/icims2?module=AppInert&action=download&id=66&hashed=-1305937254" alt="Applied-Medical-Logo-w-Tag_H_Teal_cropped" />Applied Medical is a new generation medical device company with a proven business model and commitment to innovation fueled by rapid business growth and expansion. Our company has been developing and manufacturing advanced surgical technologies for over 35 years and has earned a strong reputation for excellence in the healthcare field.

Our unique business model, combined with our dedication to delivering the highest quality products, enables team members to contribute in a larger capacity than is possible in typical positions. Position Description We are seeking a highly skilled AI Engineer with deep expertise in Large Language Models (LLMs), AI agent frameworks, and Model Context Protocols (MCP). The ideal candidate will design, develop, and deploy advanced AI-powered applications that leverage LLMs for reasoning, planning, and autonomous decision-making. In this role, you will build agentic systems capable of performing multi-step tasks, interacting with external systems, integrating with APIs and tools, and orchestrating complex workflows end-to-end.

You will also implement and optimize MCP-based architectures to ensure reliable tool usage, persistent context management, and robust coordination between agents and backend services. <span class="NormalTextRun SCXW252938598 BCX9" data-ccp-charstyle="normaltextrun" data-ccp-charstyle-defn="{"ObjectId":"21152cb7-e74b-4fe8-8a1d-cc4ceb316c07|68","ClassId":1073872969,"Properties":[469775450,"normaltextrun",201340122,"1",134233614,"true",469778129,"normaltextrun",335572020,"1",469778324,"Default Paragraph Font"]}">Collaboration is a fundamental part of our organization's culture and is essential to our continued success. As such, the successful candidate for this position is expected to work on-site, enabling them to engage fully with colleagues and contribute to cross-functional initiatives.

Therefore, the ability to work collaboratively and contribute to a positive and supportive team environment is a key requirement for this role. Key Responsibilities: <ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: verdana;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" aria-setsize="-1" data-leveltext="•" data-font="Aptos" data-listid="12" data-list-defn-props="{"335551671":0,"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Aptos","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"•","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="0" data-aria-level="1">LLM Application Development: Design, fine-tune, and deploy LLM-based applications for reasoning, planning, retrieval, and automation. </li></ul><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: verdana;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" aria-setsize="-1" data-leveltext="•" data-font="Aptos" data-listid="12" data-list-defn-props="{"335551671":0,"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Aptos","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"•","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1">Agent Systems: Build autonomous AI agents that interact with APIs, databases, and tools using frameworks like LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen, or custom solutions. </li></ul><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: verdana;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" aria-setsize="-1" data-leveltext="•" data-font="Aptos" data-listid="12" data-list-defn-props="{"335551671":0,"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Aptos","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"•","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1">Context & Memory Management: Implement Model Context Protocols (MCP) for persistent context, robust coordination between agents, and seamless tool usage. </li></ul><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: verdana;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" aria-setsize="-1" data-leveltext="•" data-font="Aptos" data-listid="12" data-list-defn-props="{"335551671":0,"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Aptos","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"•","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="1">Data & RAG Pipelines: Develop RAG pipelines, vector databases, and prompt-engineering strategies to enable context-aware responses. </li></ul><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: verdana;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" aria-setsize="-1" data-leveltext="•" data-font="Aptos" data-listid="12" data-list-defn-props="{"335551671":0,"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Aptos","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"•","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="4" data-aria-level="1">Backend & Infrastructure: Build scalable backend systems and deploy solutions on cloud or on-prem environments (Azure, AWS), with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes). </li></ul><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: verdana;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" aria-setsize="-1" data-leveltext="•" data-font="Aptos" data-listid="12" data-list-defn-props="{"335551671":0,"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Aptos","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"•","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="5" data-aria-level="1">Research & Innovation: Stay up-to-date with emerging LLM and agentic technologies and evaluate them for practical applications. </li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" aria-setsize="-1" data-leveltext="•" data-font="Aptos" data-listid="12" data-list-defn-props="{"335551671":0,"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Aptos","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"•","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="5" data-aria-level="1">Collaboration & Governance: Work closely with data science, product, and engineering teams while ensuring responsible AI practices, model safety, and compliance with data privacy regulations. </li></ul><ul><li style="list-style-type: none;"> </li></ul> Position Requirements This position requires the following skills and attributes: <ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: verdana;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" aria-setsize="-1" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="10" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1">Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, AI/ML, or related field (Ph.D. preferred). </li></ul><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: verdana;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" aria-setsize="-1" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="10" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1">2+ years building and deploying AI applications with LLMs (OpenAI, Anthropic, HuggingFace). </li></ul><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: verdana;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" aria-setsize="-1" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="10" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="1">Strong Python skills, with experience in Git, FastAPI/Flask, and ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow). </li></ul><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: verdana;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" aria-setsize="-1" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="10" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="4" data-aria-level="1">Hands-on experience with agent frameworks (AutoGen, LangGraph, CrewAI) and orchestration strategies. </li></ul><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: verdana;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" aria-setsize="-1" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="10" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="5" data-aria-level="1">Proficiency in vector databases (Pinecone, Milvus, ChromaDB, FAISS) and embedding techniques. </li></ul><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: verdana;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" aria-setsize="-1" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="10" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="6" data-aria-level="1">Solid understanding of prompt engineering, RAG, and LLM optimization. </li></ul><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: verdana;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" aria-setsize="-1" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="10" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="7" data-aria-level="1">Familiarity with cloud/on-prem deployment and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes). </li></ul><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: verdana;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" aria-setsize="-1" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="10" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="8" data-aria-level="1">Experience implementing Model Context Protocols for context management and interoperability. </li></ul><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: verdana;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" aria-setsize="-1" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="10" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="9" data-aria-level="1">Experience with multi-agent systems, planning algorithms, or reinforcement learning with LLMs. </li></ul><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: verdana;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" aria-setsize="-1" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="10" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="10" data-aria-level="1">Knowledge of production-grade AI monitoring, logging, and observability. </li></ul><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: verdana;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" aria-setsize="-1" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="10" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="11" data-aria-level="1">Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to thrive in fast-paced, collaborative environments. </li></ul> Benefits <ul style="margin-top: 0in;"><li style="color: #212121;">Competitive compensation range: $80000 - $140000 / year (California).</li><li style="color: #212121;">Comprehensive benefits package.</li><li style="color: #212121;">Training and mentorship opportunities.</li><li style="color: #212121;">On-campus wellness activities.</li><li style="color: #212121;">Education reimbursement program.</li><li style="color: #212121;">401(k) program with discretionary employer match.</li><li style="color: #212121;">Generous vacation accrual and paid holiday schedule.</li></ul>Please note that the compensation range may be adjusted in the future, and bonus and incentive compensation plans may apply. Our total reward package reflects our commitment to employee growth and well-being, as we invest in your development and offer a range of benefits designed to enhance your career and life. All compensation and benefits are subject to plan documents and written agreements. Equal Opportunity EmployerApplied Medical

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