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The Application Engineer designs, builds, tests, deploys and evolves software applications that deliver value to users and support IBM’s mission to lead in hybrid cloud and AI space. Applies AI-First engineering principles and Agentic AI capabilities to create scalable, secure, and user-centric products, perform testing activities, integrate with DevSecOps toolchains and collaborate across disciplines to continuously evolve digital product performance and experience to meet the client’s need.

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with clients to translate business requirements into AIfirst technical designs, defining utilities, templates, and scaffolding using generative and agentic AI aligned to client use cases
• Validate OpenAI specifications, model context, and generated stubs; generate clean, modular, maintainable code and implement transformation logic and services with AIbased development assistants following IBM and industry standards.
• Apply AI enabled peer review agents plus Testing Agents and synthetic data for unit, module, functional, SIT, and UAT testing, using pattern recognition to locate defect origins and support triage and resolution.
• Build DevOps scripts and pipelines with Deployment Agents and integrate automated SAST/DAST security testing into DevSecOps pipelines to meet compliance and governance requirements.
• Ensure production readiness and smooth deployment cutover.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Required skills

• Good ES6/ES7 knowledge
• HTML5/CSS3 or CSS preprocessor relevant experience (at least 3 years)
• Experience with Typescript
• Experience with Python (min 3 years)
• Experience with React (min 3 years)
• Good understanding of SQL/NoSQL database design and usage
• Knowledge of a testing library: Mocha/Jasmine/Chai etc.
• Good understanding of DevOps strategies and Cloud products
• Good understanding of full stack application architecture
• Experience with RESTAPIs/GraphQL and Swagger
• Experience with implementing and using Design System(s)
• Experience in Scrum and Agile development methodologies
• Good command of English
• Teamwork and collaborate with colleagues, third party collaborators and clients

Preferred technical and professional experience

Agentic Tools & AI-Assisted Development Experience

• Amazon Q Developer for code generation, debugging, refactoring, and cloud-native development support
• GitHub Copilot for pair programming, unit test generation, and accelerated software delivery
• Claude Code for code analysis, debugging, documentation, and developer workflow automation
• Experience integrating AI-assisted development practices into Agile SDLC workflows

Agentic AI & Automation Frameworks

• CrewAI for building and orchestrating autonomous AI agents and workflow automation
• Experience designing agent-based workflows for development, testing, and engineering productivity use cases

AI-Assisted QA & SDLC Enablement

• AI-assisted test case generation and test strategy development
• Experience leveraging AI tools for QA automation, documentation generation, validation workflows, and delivery acceleration
• Applied AI-driven development and testing practices to improve engineering productivity and software quality

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

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At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

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IBM wants you to bring your whole self to work and for you this might mean the ability to work flexibly. If you are interested in a flexible working pattern, please talk to our recruitment team to find out if this is possible in the current working environment.

Job Title

Application Engineer - AI and Python

Job ID

129858

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Work arrangement

Hybrid

Area of work

Software Engineering

Employment type

Regular

Position type

Professional

Some travel may be required based on business demand

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General (daytime)

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