System Engineer 2, Full Stack Applied AI, AdTech at DIRECTV

Compensation · Listed in posting

$134,516 – $201,653/yr

Setup: Hybrid
Location: New York, New York
Type: Full-time
Level: senior
Posted: Oct 5, 2026

Description

DIRECTV is hiring a System Engineer 2 in New York City to build and deploy AI-powered advertising technology products. The role combines full-stack software development with applied AI engineering, including frontend and backend systems, APIs, data access, cloud deployment, AI orchestration, RAG, agents, tool calling, evaluation, and production support. It is a hybrid position requiring two days per week in the office and approximately 10% travel, with a base salary of $134,516 to $201,653.

Required Skills

Full-stack development
Applied AI
TypeScript
React
Python
FastAPI
RAG
LLMs
CI/CD
Cloud services
Security

Additional Information

Minimum Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
Required Previous Experiences: 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with substantial hands-on full-stack development across frontend and backend systems
Experience delivering customer-facing or internal enterprise applications from concept through production operation
Experience integrating foundation models, agents, retrieval services, and intelligent automation into production software
Preferred Qualifications: Experience in advertising, media, AdTech, MarTech, campaign operations, analytics, or other data-intensive business environments
Experience building workflow, analytics, decision-support, conversational BI, or operational automation products
Experience with AWS, Snowflake, Kubernetes, vector databases, feature flags, experimentation frameworks, and enterprise design systems
Experience contributing to shared platforms, component libraries, developer tooling, or reusable AI application patterns
Portfolio or concrete examples demonstrating ownership of frontend and backend production code