Brivo
Software Engineer, Early Career - AI Platform
Bethesda, Maryland · Junior · Internship
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Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~45% per draw at Level III). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
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the lottery is wage-weighted — each level is one more entry
$7,462 more — $127,462 — moves this role to Level II and 2 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $127,462 would place this position at wage Level II. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Developers (15-1252) · Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- You'll get broad exposure to modern backend, cloud, and AI engineering.
- Spend the majority of your time coding.
Responsibilities
- Spend the majority of your time coding. You'll build and maintain features in production API services using Node.js/TypeScript and Express, with support and mentorship from senior engineers.
- Contribute to our LLM and generative AI features-helping implement prompt logic, tool/function calling, and agent workflows-and learn how they run safely at scale.
- Help build and test AI safety guardrails (e.g., prompt-injection and data-exposure checks) and tooling that lets AI agents interact with the platform.
- Write and maintain automated tests (unit and integration) and help troubleshoot issues in development and production environments.
- Work within an Agile team-joining sprint planning, backlog grooming, and feature reviews-and collaborate with product managers, designers, and QA to deliver high-quality features.
- Learn our cloud and deployment practices, including AWS, CI/CD pipelines, PostgreSQL, and Redis, and grow into owning your own components.
- Exposure to MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers or building tools/plugins that let an LLM call external functions.
- You'll join the team building Brivo's AI platform-the services, integrations, and guardrails that bring intelligent, natural-language capabilities to our core Access Control and Video products.
- This is a hands-on role where you'll write production code from day one, learn how large-scale systems are built and operated, and grow alongside experienced engineers who will mentor you through design reviews, code reviews, and real production work.
- You will join a high-impact team building the next generation of AI-powered experiences on Brivo's platform.
Requirements
- BS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience (bootcamp, self-taught, or comparable).
- A university project, capstone, internship project, or personal side project you can demonstrate and discuss in depth-ideally one that involves AI/LLMs (e.g., a chatbot, agent, RAG app, or an app built on an LLM API).
- Familiarity with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL) and basic SQL.
- Comfort with Git and collaborative development workflows.
- Hands-on experience-even in a school or side project-with an LLM provider API (e.g., Anthropic Claude, OpenAI) or an agent framework (e.g., LangChain/LangGraph).
- Any experience with Node.js/TypeScript, Express, or REST API development.
Nice to have
- Solid programming fundamentals in at least one modern language (JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Java, or similar), plus a working understanding of data structures, algorithms, and how web/API services work.
- Highly Desirable / Nice to Have
Skills
- Brivo is a Great Place to Work-Certified™ company and the global leader in cloud-based access control and video surveillance.
Compensation
- $120,000 - $144,000 / year
Benefits
- In addition, Brivonians enjoy a robust benefits and perks package tailored to their work location.
Company info
- We're looking for someone curious, eager to learn, and excited about AI-someone who picks up new technologies quickly, asks good questions, speaks up, and thrives in a fast-paced environment.
- We embrace our international presence, leveraging diverse ideas and backgrounds to improve our culture and our products.
- Our mission is simple and ambitious: to make physical spaces safer, smarter, and more autonomous-from single-site businesses to global enterprises.
This listing is sourced directly from Brivo's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.