Sr Specialist Member of Technical Staff – Device Analytics and AI
AT&T · Bothell, WA
$128,100–$205,800from the description
Jul 20, 2026
Bothell, WA
Jul 22, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A backend-focused engineering role centered on building and maintaining APIs, microservices, and cloud-native platform services that support AI and machine learning applications. The work involves integrating customer, device, and network data into AI workflows, helping data science teams move models into production, and contributing to architecture standards. Suited to engineers with experience in distributed systems, cloud platforms, and some exposure to AI/ML or generative AI technologies.
Senior level · 1+ years · Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
Posted 2 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 1,550 people in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 1,150–2,000
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $170,959 (middle half $135,720–$216,519). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The role is posted across three locations — Bothell, WA; Plano, TX; and San Ramon, CA — with no relocation offered and a minimum 5-days-per-week in-office requirement. The CBSA is set to Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue (Bothell, WA) as the first-listed location; Plano, TX (Dallas-Fort Worth CBSA 19100) and San Ramon, CA (San Francisco-Oakland CBSA 41860) are equally valid primary locations.
The stated minimum experience of '1+ years' sits under the 'What you'll bring' section (preferred/bring framing), yet the title is 'Sr Specialist Member of Technical Staff' and the salary band ($128K–$206K) strongly implies a senior-level role in practice. The 1-year floor is taken as the literal posted minimum for the overall years minimum.
Python and Java are listed as interchangeable options ('Python, Java, or similar') under the required 'What you'll need' section; Python is set as the primary with Java as an alternative.
Cloud platforms (Azure, AWS) and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) appear under 'What you'll bring', which reads as a preferred/bring section rather than a hard gate, so they are marked preferred.
AI/ML platform knowledge is listed under the hard-gate 'What you'll need' section and is marked required; GenAI/LLM familiarity appears only under 'What you'll bring' and is marked preferred.
The alt SOC 15-1299 is noted because the 'AI Platform Engineer' framing blends platform/infrastructure concerns with software development; however, the primary day-to-day work (designing and building APIs, backend services, microservices) maps most cleanly to Software Developers (15-1252).
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