Applications Integration Engineer

Kairos Power, Oak Ridge, TN +1

The role

Kairos Power is seeking an Applications Integration Engineer embedded directly within the Operations Team in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. This role combines operational problem solving with deeper software and AI development capability. The engineer will work alongside Build Engineers, Operations Engineers, technicians, and leaders to create higher-complexity AI-enabled workflows and bespoke tools using secure capabilities provided by Kairos’s internal Development Team.

The mission is not generic software development; it is to solve real problems in reactor build, integration, Test and Activation, fueling, and operations while respecting established engineering, Quality, Licensing, and operational approval authorities.

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Applications Integration Engineer

Kairos Power, Oak Ridge, TN +1

The role

What you need

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, Engineering, or another technical discipline with strong demonstrated software capability, or an equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
Typically 2+ years of software, data, automation, AI/ML, or technically sophisticated engineering experience; exceptional new graduates with substantial project portfolios may be considered.
Strong Python proficiency and working knowledge of APIs, JSON, SQL, Git, testing, and modern software development.
Hands-on experience building and deploying LLM applications, RAG systems, agents/tool-use workflows, or AI-enabled automation.
Hands-on experience integrating applications with APIs, databases, or other software systems and troubleshooting application, data, or integration issues.
Familiarity with one or more LLM orchestration or retrieval frameworks, vector databases, structured-output/schema tools, AI evaluation or tracing tools, and cloud or containerized deployment environments is preferred.
Familiarity with MCP client/server concepts or comparable approaches for integrating AI applications with tools and enterprise systems is preferred.
Familiarity with cloud services and containerized application deployment in AWS, Azure, GCP, or comparable environments is preferred.
Familiarity with operational enterprise systems and engineering data such as MES, PLM, ERP, issue-tracking/work-management systems, Git repositories, CAD/BOM data, or comparable systems and data sources is preferred.
Experience in industrial operations, manufacturing, aerospace, energy, construction, robotics, hardware integration, or other physical operations is strongly preferred.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Ability to trace and troubleshoot issues across application, API, data, and enterprise-system boundaries.
Ability to validate, transform, and reconcile data exchanged among applications and enterprise systems.
Ability to translate operational requirements into testable application behaviors and acceptance criteria.
Ability to work with ambiguous operational requirements and turn them into usable prototypes quickly.
Ability to communicate with engineers and technicians and learn unfamiliar technical domains rapidly.
Ability to design and iterate solutions around operational user needs, adoption, and practical utility.
Strong debugging, decomposition, and rapid-prototyping skills.
Ability to distinguish a platform problem from an application problem.
Comfort with incomplete data and imperfect enterprise interfaces.
Strong security and configuration-control judgment.
Strong Python proficiency and working knowledge of APIs, JSON, SQL, Git, testing, and modern software development.
Ability to teach and enable non-software engineers rather than becoming a bottleneck.
Excellent technical communication and documentation.

Additional Requirements

Occasionally requires working weekends
Occasionally requires schedule flexibility
Occasionally requires extended hours to support launch and critical project timelines

Applications Integration Engineer

The role

Applications Integration Engineer

The role

What you will do

What you need

Qualifications

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Additional Requirements

Physical Demands

Environmental Conditions

Safety and PPE

Travel

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