# Forward Deployed AI Engineer III

Hiring organization: [Expedia Group](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/expedia-group)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/fdf25216-cccb-47bb-8af1-43cc2d5f4501

Listed on Expedia Group's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Senior
- Location: Austin, TX
- Salary: 116500 – 163000 USD per year

## Summary

This role leads the design and operation of cloud infrastructure and AI systems for Expedia's enterprise platform, partnering across teams to build scalable, secure, and cost-efficient services. It suits senior engineers who excel at architecting complex systems, reducing operational toil through automation, and mentoring others while navigating the intersection of platform engineering and AI workflows.

_Our summary, not Expedia Group's wording._

## Skills named

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Go, Kubernetes, Microsoft Azure, Pulumi, Python, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Salesforce, ServiceNow, Terraform

## Required

- 5+ years infrastructure, platform, or enterprise systems engineering experience (or 3+ years with Master's degree)
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in relevant field
- Hands-on design-level experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP (compute, networking, storage, IAM)
- Infrastructure-as-Code ownership with Terraform, Pulumi, or equivalent, including reusable modules and policy-as-code
- Proficiency in Python, Go, or similar language with automation track record
- Experience designing SaaS and enterprise system integration architectures
- SLO definition and observability engineering (telemetry, synthetic testing, alerting)
- AI/ML literacy including LLMs, RAG, agentic systems, and production AI guardrails
- Experience with enterprise AI copilot or knowledge-assistant platform administration and integration
- Service or integration architecture ownership including security and operability design
- Technical communication ability for architecture decision records and design documents

## Nice to have

- Enterprise SaaS administration and integration at scale (Glean, ServiceNow, Salesforce)
- Leadership or contribution to platform team engineering standards and golden paths
- Mentorship of less experienced engineers
- Open-source infrastructure tooling or internal developer platform contributions
- Experience embedding AI/automation into operational workflows
- FinOps practices familiarity

Apply on Expedia Group's site: https://expedia.wd108.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/search/job/Austin-Domain-11---HomeAway/Enterprise-AI-Engineer-III_R-108423-1