Fuel Cycle
Associate AI Engineer (Onsite in Los Angeles)
$90K–$110K
Los Angeles Office · Full-time · Posted Oct 27, 2026
- Experience
- Roughly 0–2 years of software engineering experience; internships, research, and substantial projects count.
- Education
- Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Build and maintain production AI agents and supporting API services, with mentorship from senior engineers in Fuel Cycle’s Los Angeles office.
What you'll do
- Design, build, evaluate, and deploy tool-calling AI agents, MCP tools, and RAG pipelines.
- Ship and test features and bug fixes in FastAPI services, including REST and WebSocket APIs and background jobs.
- Evaluate models, prompts, and technical approaches, documenting recommendations and contributing to code reviews and design standards.
What they ask for
- Solid Python fundamentals, including functions, classes, type hints, error handling, and testing basics.
- Knowledge of data structures and algorithms, including time and space complexity.
- SQL fundamentals, REST and HTTP concepts, and Git pull-request workflow.
- Clear communication, curiosity, and willingness to learn and ask for help.
Nice to have
- An agent project using Strands Agents, LangChain, the OpenAI SDK, or a similar framework; MCP experience.
- AWS Bedrock or AgentCore, RAG, prompt engineering, FastAPI, or a similar framework.
Pay
$90,000 - $110,000 USD base salary
Tools
Python, FastAPI, AWS Bedrock, Bedrock AgentCore, Strands Agents, MCP, pgvector, FAISS
AI focus
Build and deploy AI agents and MCP tools; develop RAG pipelines; test prompts and evaluate model quality, latency, token cost, and production guardrails.
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