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title: 'AI Engineer at Kobie Marketing'
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# AI Engineer at Kobie Marketing

- **Company:** Kobie Marketing
- **Location:** St Petersburg, FL
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-06-12
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-26
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/kobie/d14582bd-64a2-439e-a7e3-a50ce7270a3d

## Job description

Join a National Top Workplace

Named a Top Workplace in the USA and Top Remote Workplace, Kobie is where the best minds in loyalty come together, driven by passion and innovation. We’re always looking for talented individuals who are ready to join a collaborative, growth-focused culture. As a partner to some of the world’s most recognized brands, we are leaders in loyalty, helping brands build lasting emotional connections with their consumers.

Join Us from Anywhere While our headquarters are nestled in sunny St. Petersburg, Florida, Kobie embraces a flexible work environment, offering teammates the freedom to work remotely. We understand the importance of work-life balance and support our team with:

- Flexible Time Off to recharge when needed
- Nine Company-Wide Holidays
- A diverse suite of benefits prioritizing your growth, development, and personal well-being

Discover more about our perks and benefits here.

Kobie is a values-led organization where we believe that everyone is a leader, regardless of their position or role.

Travel Requirements: As a remote-first organization headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida, Kobie values meaningful in-person connection and collaboration that strengthens our teams, supports our clients, and enhances our culture. While travel requirements vary by role, periodic travel may be required to support business objectives, team collaboration, customer engagements, training, and company events. Candidates should be able and willing to travel as needed to fulfill the responsibilities of the role.

About the team and what we’ll build together Kobie runs some of the largest loyalty programs in the world. We're building an internal agent platform on Amazon AgentCore that automates analyst workflows, surfaces insights from program data in Snowflake, and gives our teams and clients an LLM-native way to work with complex loyalty logic. We're looking for a hands-on AI Engineer to ship on that platform: building agent harnesses, writing the tools those agents call, and owning the reliability and evaluation of what goes to production. This is not a research role. You'll prototype, ship, monitor, and iterate on features used by real teams Our team tends to be people who reason carefully, ship working code,and pick up new tools without a lot of handholding. There’s no single path into this role. We value the impact of what you’ve built and your track record of building things that hold up.

## How you will make an impact

Agent Development Build agent harnesses in Python using LangChain and LangGraph, including tool-calling, structured outputs (Pydantic/JSON schema), retries, streaming, and memory Package agent harnesses for the AgentCore Runtime with appropriate context, tools, skills, and subagents that fit cleanly into production flows and scenarios Write the tools and skills agents use  API integrations, SQL queries against Snowflake, Snowflake backed knowledge retrieval with clear contracts and Pydantic validation Evaluation and Reliability Build evaluation harnesses (golden datasets, LLM-as-judge, regression suites) using AgentCore Evaluations, and wire them into CI Implement guardrails around tool execution: auth scoping, input/output validation, PII and prompt-injection protections, and hallucination mitigation You own what you ship: prototype, deploy through Amazon AgentCore, monitor traces, and fix it when it breaks Collaboration Partner with data engineers on Snowflake backed retrieval patterns (Cortex Analyst and Cortex Search Services) Contribute to refining our internal engineering patterns as the stack evolves

## What you need to be successful

Required 3+ years of professional Python, with production experience building and operating services 1+ years of hands-on work with LLMs in production: prompt/context engineering, tool/function calling, structured outputs, RAG Working knowledge of LangChain/LangGraph or a comparable framework like AgentCore Strands, CrewAI, or Semantic Kernel Experience with LLM observability tools: Amazon CloudWatch, LangSmith, Langfuse, MLflow, or OpenTelemetry Experience designing evaluation frameworks (MLFlow, DeepEval, LLM-as-judge, multi-turn regression) Fluency with Git, Docker, and modern API frameworks Clear written communication and the judgment to know when something is ready to ship A bachelor's degree is not required. Equivalent practical experience: including bootcamps, self-taught work, career changes, or non-CS technical degrees counts.

Strongly Preferred Hands-on experience with Amazon Bedrock and/or AgentCore as a developer: runtime, gateways, memory, policy, guardrails, observability, awscli, evaluations Experience with Snowflake, Snowpark, or Snowflake Cortex Fluency in writing and reading SQL, as well as understanding semantic models. Familiarity with multi-agent patterns: supervisor/router, subagent/handoff, reflection, human-in-the-loop A considered view on where agents should and shouldn't act and comfort pushing back when "let's add an agent" isn't the right answer Experience in Loyalty, MarTech, AdTech, or a comparable data rich B2B domain

Who we are  As a trusted partner, Kobie delivers market-leading, end-to-end loyalty solutions designed to enable customer experiences for the world's most successful brands. We do this with a strategy-led technology approach that uncovers the truth behind what drives consumers on an emotional level. We believe that our team's passion and expertise are the driving forces behind our success and are proud to be named a Top Workplaces in the USA, where the best and brightest in loyalty drive our mission of growing enterprise value through loyalty.

A place for all We celebrate and embrace diversity at Kobie! Employment at Kobie is based solely on an individual's merit and qualifications, which are directly related to professional competence. We do not discriminate against any teammate or applicant because of race,color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

We are fiercely committed to fostering a workplace where teammates can bring their authentic selves to work every day. Our DEI initiatives, including various committees, ensure that principles of equity, diversity, and inclusion are deeply ingrained throughout Kobie. While our leadership team fully supports our policy of nondiscrimination and equal opportunity, it is the responsibility of all teammates to uphold these values.

Ready to join us? If you’re ready to make an impact and grow in a supportive, innovative environment, we’d love to hear from you. Apply today and join the best and brightest in loyalty!

## About Kobie Marketing

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Kobie Marketing is a global loyalty marketing company that helps brands grow enterprise value through strategy-led, AI-powered loyalty solutions.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Privately Held)
- **Headquarters**: Saint Petersburg, Florida, United States (with a major office in Bengaluru, India)
- **Founded**: 1990 (nearly 40 years of operation)
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Loyalty Marketing / Marketing Services
- **Target customers**: B2B – enterprise brands across retail, travel & hospitality, financial services, entertainment, QSR, telecom, and more.
- **Mission / Purpose**: “To grow enterprise value for brands through loyalty” [kobie.com](https://kobie.com/about/).

## Products & Services
- **Kobie Alchemy® Loyalty Cloud**: A composable, AI-powered loyalty platform that enables personalization at scale, real-time data capture, and seamless integration with existing stacks. Offers both technology and strategic services.
- **Strategic Consulting & Services**: End-to-end loyalty program design, optimization, and management, leveraging human-guided AI and deep data expertise.
- **AI-Powered Personalization**: Machine learning and generative AI capabilities to deliver tailored experiences across channels.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metrics**: Annual Revenue of **$172.2M** (latest available) [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/kobie); **274 employees** [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/kobie)
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Not publicly listed; clients include “the world’s most iconic brands”
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Recognized as the **only provider named a Leader** in both the Forrester Wave™: Loyalty Technology Solutions (Q1 2023) and Loyalty Services (Q2 2024) [kobie.com](https://kobie.com/about/).
  - Expanding global footprint with a new Bengaluru office and hosting **Kobie LaunchPad 2026**, a university AI hackathon in India to attract engineering talent.
  - Active hiring for AI, engineering, and client services roles across the US and India.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Only Forrester Leader in both loyalty technology and services** – a rare dual recognition.
- **Nearly 40 years of domain expertise** in loyalty marketing.
- **Composable, API-first technology** that integrates flexibly with clients’ existing stacks.
- **Human-guided AI** approach that combines strategic consulting with machine learning for personalization at scale.
- **Strong culture and remote-first model** that attracts top talent (awarded Top Workplace USA and Top Remote Workplace).

## Strategic Focus
- **AI-first loyalty**: Investing heavily in AI/ML and generative AI to drive real-time personalization and data insights.
- **Global expansion**: Building a talent hub in Bengaluru, India, and running university hackathons to source engineering talent.
- **Composable architecture**: Offering modular technology that lets clients choose what they need, when they need it.
- **Deepening enterprise partnerships** across retail, travel, financial services, and telecom verticals.

## Why Work Here
- **Award-winning culture**: Named a Top Workplace in the USA and Top Remote Workplace – values-driven environment with “freedom and responsibility” [kobie.com](https://kobie.com/culture/).
- **Remote & hybrid flexibility**: Headquarters in St. Petersburg, FL, but teammates across 25+ US states and India. Hybrid options available; many roles are fully remote.
- **Growth & development**: Strong people strategy fostering leadership and ownership; bi-annual L.O.V.E. Awards (peer-nominated) celebrate values-driven contributions.
- **Comprehensive benefits**: Health insurance, free fitness programs, virtual health visits, flexible time off, competitive pay, 401k matching, annual profit sharing and bonuses.
- **DE&I commitment**: Diversity, equity, and inclusion are woven into the culture; paid volunteer time off and support for local causes (e.g., St. Pete Free Clinic).
- **Engineering & AI focus**: Open roles include Lead AI Engineer, AI Engineer, Lead DevOps Engineer, Senior Software Engineer – indicating a strong tech investment and modern stack.

## Sources
1. [Kobie About Page](https://kobie.com/about/)
2. [Kobie Culture & Careers](https://kobie.com/culture/)
3. [LinkedIn Company Profile](https://linkedin.com/company/kobie)
4. [Kobie Careers (Lever)](https://jobs.lever.co/kobie)
5. [Kobie Jobs Page](https://kobie.com/jobs/)

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