Senior AI Productivity Engineer
About the role
Cornelis Networks is seeking a Senior AI Productivity Engineer to help shape how the engineering organization uses AI to design, develop, validate, and support networking products. This software and platform engineering position builds and expands a private, secure AI platform and autonomous agent workforce tailored to low-level engineering domains including Linux kernel drivers, firmware, and ASIC development.
What you'll do
- Own the configuration, tooling, and infrastructure that delivers domain-aware AI tooling to engineering teams working on drivers, firmware, and ASIC register maps.
- Design, implement, and deploy autonomous agents from concept to production using FastAPI REST APIs, CLI interfaces, and chat integrations.
- Maintain and harden platform infrastructure, including containerized services on Linux, systemd timers, reverse proxies, PostgreSQL, Redis, and enterprise integrations with GitHub, Jira, Confluence, and Microsoft Teams.
- Author and refine structured workflows, prompt engineering, and system instructions to keep AI agents grounded and reliable.
- Build and maintain CI/CD validation pipelines to catch invalid configurations, leaked credentials, and broken agent contracts, while guiding inner-source pull request reviews.
- Track platform costs, token usage, and model tier selection to balance deterministic code versus LLM-powered workloads.
What you'll need
- B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience building software, applications, scripts, or services in Python or a comparable general-purpose programming language, with familiarity in version control, testing, debugging, and code review.
- Practical experience developing, deploying, operating, or troubleshooting software in a Linux environment.
- Hands-on experience implementing, integrating, extending, or operating Model Context Protocol (MCP) clients, servers, tools, or MCP-based workflows.
- Hands-on experience building an AI agent or LLM-powered workflow that uses tools, APIs, structured workflows, files, databases, or external systems.
- Experience building or integrating a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) workflow utilizing ingestion, chunking, embeddings, vector search, metadata, or source context.
Nice to have
- Experience with platform architecture, software-system design, and shell scripting.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated validation, Docker, or Podman.
- Experience with REST API development using FastAPI or similar Python web frameworks, as well as PostgreSQL and Redis data infrastructure.
- Familiarity with enterprise APIs (GitHub, Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Teams), Microsoft Teams bot development, or Power Automate.
- Domain exposure to embedded systems, firmware, semiconductors, ASICs, or hardware/software integration.
Skills: AI Platform, engineering organization, AI agents, software engineering, workflow automation
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This role has been open 107 days — well above the 53-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
1022
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Median days open
53 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$236k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Cornelis Networks | All employers we track in this specialty (1022 roles · 93 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 4 | 1022 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 9 | 6531 · 156 employers |
| Median days open | 86 d | 53 d (+33 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $236k |
Skills observed across this category: AI Platform, engineering organization, AI agents, software engineering, workflow automation
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 335 open roles · median 58 d
- AMD · 55 open roles · median 36 d
- Qualcomm · 55 open roles · median 61 d
- Graphcore · 48 open roles · median 101 d
- Intel Corporation · 38 open roles · median 24 d
- Arm Holdings · 37 open roles · median 11 d
How we counted: 1022 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 93 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 8 Nov 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.