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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