# Lead Applied AI Engineer at Appian

- Company: Appian
- What the company does: AI automation for critical processes. Appian orchestrates AI agents, systems, and people on an enterprise platform, without replacing your systems. Backed by NEA.
- Company website: https://appian.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-15
- Apply by: 2026-10-30
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/appian/jobs/8204996
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/appian-lead-applied-ai-engineer-2/

## About the role

As a Lead Applied AI Engineer, you will serve as a technical linchpin for the team building AI systems that reason about enterprise applications end to end — spanning agents and orchestration, specification extraction from existing systems, application intelligence and retrieval, and rigorous LLM evaluation. These skills are shared across the team, so you'll bring production depth in some of these areas and the range to grow into the others.

## What they're looking for

- Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science or a related technical/analytical discipline
- 7+ years of relevant software development experience with a BS (or 5+ years of experience paired with a Master of Science in Computer Science or a related field)
- Strong distributed-systems background, including retries, idempotency, partial failure, long-running tasks, and recovery
- Strong software engineering, data-pipeline, and observability skills, comfortable owning a production service end to end
- Demonstrated experience using AI coding assistants and a strong ability to evaluate, coach others on, and selectively apply AI-generated code in a production engineering context
- Exceptional ability to communicate highly technical architectures verbally, visually, and in writing to diverse engineering audiences

Tags: Engineering