Drimva

Fortinet

Early Careers: AI Automation Engineer

$110K–$170K

Sunnyvale, CA · On-site · Entry level · Full-time · Posted Oct 23, 2026

Education
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, graduating by the start date (or equivalent practical experience).
Visa sponsorship
Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship.

About the job

Builds and operates internal automation systems and pipelines, including evaluated LLM workflows, with a focus on reliability, data quality, and human review.

What you'll do

  • Own services end to end, including deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting, and runbooks; build and harden ingestion pipelines.
  • Design and evaluate LLM prompts and workflows, measure quality against human-graded samples, and use human review for high-stakes or low-confidence decisions.
  • Automate operational workflows and maintain data quality, security, documentation, and observability.

What they ask for

  • Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship.
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, graduating by the start date (or equivalent practical experience).
  • Strong Python; experience building or consuming HTTP APIs, including LLM/AI APIs; and demonstrated experience designing and evaluating prompts or LLM-based pipelines.
  • Comfort with Git and a hosted platform (GitHub or GitLab), basic databases and SQL, and testing and debugging.

Nice to have

  • Experience with FastAPI, Docker, or Linux service operations.
  • Experience with data pipelines, ETL, log/telemetry processing, or observability.

Pay

$110,000 - $170,000 USD base salary

Tools

Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, HTTP APIs, OpenAI, Anthropic, Git, GitHub, GitLab

AI focus

Design prompts and pipelines for summarization, classification, retrieval, and scoring; evaluate accuracy, consistency, and bias against human-graded samples and use human review where appropriate.

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First seen Oct 28, 2026 · Last verified Nov 6, 2026 (UTC)