1-800 Contacts

Frontend Engineer, AI Prototyping

Who can apply: Only open to applicants in: Utah.
Location as listed by the employer: “Draper, UT (Hybrid)”
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About this role

1-800 Contacts is hiring for a Frontend Engineer, AI Prototyping role (full-time). See the official posting for full details.

Requirements

  • Strong full-stack software engineering experience with deep frontend expertise using React, Next.js, TypeScript, or similar technologies, along with hands-on experience building backend services, APIs, and integrations.
  • Strong hands-on experience evaluating, selecting, integrating, and applying existing AI models, services, or approaches within applications, prototypes, or customer-facing experiences.
  • Experience working with applied AI capabilities such as LLMs, conversational AI, recommendation or decisioning systems, personalization, retrieval/grounding, agents/tool calling, or generative AI.
  • Demonstrated ability to evaluate different AI approaches for a use case, understand their tradeoffs, and independently determine an appropriate technical approach.
  • Demonstrated ability to take an ambiguous AI-powered concept from idea to a functional POC or prototype without requiring a predefined technical solution.
  • Experience integrating APIs, cloud services, data sources, and external systems.
  • Familiarity with evaluating AI experiences for factors such as quality, reliability, latency, cost, and customer experience.
  • Familiarity with AI-native development tools such as Cursor, Claude, Copilot, or similar technologies.

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