AI Engineer | AWS Bedrock + React/Node.js + Elasticsearch | Remote

Job Description

Role: AI Engineer

Duration: Long Tern

Location: (Remote)

Job Description

Black Book is looking for a contract software engineer to lead the build-out of the AI assistant inside Pulse. Pulse pulls in automotive vehicle listing data from across the US and Canada, summarizes up by VIN, and turns it into the analytics our customers use day to day. Our next step is making all that available through natural language: an assistant (agentChat, built on AWS Bedrock) that lets customers ask questions about their inventory and market and get real answers back, safely and within their existing permissions.

This is the core of the role. We want someone who will own the assistant end to end, from prompt and agent design through the tools and data it can reach, the guardrails around it, and the way it surfaces in the product. There is plenty of supporting full-stack work around it (React front end, GraphQL/Node services, Elasticsearch, AWS), but the assistant is the priority, not a side project.

Just as important is how you work. We build with AI. Our engineers use Claude Code and an AI-DLC-style, spec-driven workflow to plan, generate, and review code, and we expect you to do the same. We are not looking to add someone to hand-write code line by line. We want an experienced engineer who can direct AI coding agents well: break work into clear specs, steer the tools, and review and validate what comes back with a critical eye. You still need to deeply understand the stack, because you must judge whether the AI got it right.

This isn’t a junior role. We need someone who has already built and run full-stack applications on AWS, has shipped with LLMs, and is comfortable working in a fast-paced environment.

What You’ll Be Doing

* Expanding the Pulse AI assistant (agentChat on AWS Bedrock): agent and prompt design, the tools and data it can call, and the guardrails that keep answers accurate and inside each customer’s