Senior AI Software Engineer Jobs in Colorado
Senior AI Software Engineer jobs in Colorado concentrate in aerospace and defense, cloud computing, and enterprise software, with Denver, Boulder, and Colorado Springs serving as the state's primary hiring centers. Established employers like Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and Google maintain significant Colorado operations and consistently post senior-level AI roles. The most in-demand specialties include large language model development, MLOps infrastructure, and computer vision for aerospace and autonomous systems. See the openings below and apply to the ones that match your experience.
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Applications for this position will be accepted on an ongoing basis.
About The Opportunity
Contentful is looking for a Software Engineer to join our Applied AI product line with a primary focus on Marketplace. In this role, you will help build, maintain, and grow the systems, apps, and workflows that expand what customers can do with Contentful.
You will work across the Marketplace surface area and adjacent Applied AI tooling, helping us deliver high-impact apps, improve the contribution and review pipeline, and scale the ways internal and external developers build on top of Contentful. While Marketplace is the primary focus, this role should also be able to contribute across adjacent Applied AI areas like Extensibility and Developer Experience when priorities call for it.
This role is ideal for an engineer strong in front-end product work but not limited to it: someone comfortable moving between React surfaces, Node.js services, APIs, developer tooling, and production operations as needed. We are looking for a product-minded full-stack engineer who enjoys strong cross-functional collaboration and taking growing ownership of software through its full lifecycle in production.
We are also evolving how we build software. We increasingly use AI-assisted development workflows to accelerate delivery, reduce menial workload, and improve leverage across the software development lifecycle. We are looking for an engineer who is genuinely excited to experiment with these tools — not just adopt them passively, but bring strong engineering instincts to getting the most out of them.
This is a hybrid role, with office attendance in Denver expected 2 days per week (Tuesday, Thursday).
What To Expect?
- Design, build, and maintain Marketplace features, apps, and supporting services that improve the experience for both app builders and app installers.
- Contribute to the systems and tooling that help Contentful teams and partners bring new apps and integrations to market faster.
- Contribute across adjacent Applied AI problem spaces, including extensibility workflows, developer tooling, internal platform capabilities, and backend services that support developers building on Contentful.
- Improve contribution workflows, trust and safety checks, maintainability, and operational quality across Marketplace and Applied AI surfaces.
- Partner closely with product, design, and engineers across Applied AI to shape solutions that solve meaningful customer and business problems.
- Help generalize, polish, and productionize internally built apps and Applied AI contributions so they can be supported long-term by Marketplace Engineering.
- Own software in production, including debugging issues, improving observability, strengthening reliability, and participating in support and operational responsibilities.
- Use AI-assisted workflows across planning, implementation, debugging, and documentation where they create real leverage.
- Help the team improve how we use AI in engineering by sharing practices, refining workflows, and contributing to a healthy engineering culture around quality and speed.
What You Need To Be Successful
- Roughly 4-7 years of relevant software engineering experience
- Solid professional software engineering experience building and maintaining production systems.
- Strong experience with TypeScript and Node.js, plus solid experience building user-facing product surfaces in React or similar front-end frameworks.
- Clear strength in front-end engineering, paired with real comfort contributing to backend services, APIs, and developer-facing tooling rather than working exclusively in the UI layer.
- Experience designing and evolving APIs, integrations, and services used by other engineers, partners, or customers.
- Good judgment around reliability, maintainability, security, and technical tradeoffs in a product environment.
- Comfort working across the stack and across boundaries, from user experience to backend behavior to operational concerns.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, including experience working cross-functionally and asynchronously across teams and time zones.
- A product mindset and real empathy for developers, partners, and customers.
- Practical experience using AI tools to improve engineering productivity, with the ability to evaluate outputs critically and maintain a high quality bar.
Nice to Have
- Experience with developer platforms, SDKs, app frameworks, marketplaces, extensibility products, or integration ecosystems.
- Experience with AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Cloudflare, or related cloud infrastructure.
- Experience maintaining or contributing to public or shared developer tooling.
- Familiarity with AI-native product surfaces, agentic workflows, or systems that connect software to external tools and services.
What's In It For You?
- Join an ambitious tech company reshaping the way people build digital experiences
- Comprehensive healthcare package covering 100% of monthly health premiums for employees and 85% of costs for your dependents.
- Fertility and family building benefits, including a lifetime reimbursable wallet to support your growing family.
- We value Work-Life balance and You Time! A generous amount of paid time off, including vacation days, sick days, compassion days for loss, education days, and volunteer days
- Company paid parental leave to care for and focus on your growing family
- Use your personal annual education budget to improve your skills and grow in your career
- Enjoy a full range of virtual and in-person events, including workshops, guest speakers, and fun team activities, supporting learning and networking exchange beyond the usual work duties
- An annual wellbeing stipend to care for your physical, financial, or emotional health
- A monthly communication stipend and phone hardware upgrade reimbursement.
- New hire office equipment stipend for hybrid or distributed employees. Get the gear you need to work at your best.
At Salesforce, we believe in equitable compensation practices that reflect the dynamic nature of labor markets across various regions. The typical base salary range for this position is $117,200-$161,200 annually.
Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process. The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.
This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Applicants must be authorized to work without the need for visa sponsorship by the start date of employment.
Contentful is now officially part of Salesforce.
Unleash Your Potential
When you join Salesforce, you'll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we'll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future — but to redefine what's possible — for yourself, for AI, and the world.
If you need reasonable accommodations at any point during the application or interview process, please let your Recruiter know.
Equal Opportunity Statement
Salesforce is an equal opportunity employer and maintains a policy of non-discrimination with all employees and applicants for employment. What does that mean exactly? It means that at Salesforce, we believe in equality for all. And we believe we can lead the path to equality in part by creating a workplace that's inclusive, and free from discrimination.
Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal. Any employee or potential employee will be assessed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications – without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, transgender status, age, disability, veteran or marital status, political viewpoint, or other classifications protected by law. This policy applies to current and prospective employees, no matter where they are in their Salesforce employment journey. It also applies to recruiting, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, assessment of job performance, discipline, termination, and everything in between. Recruiting, hiring, and promotion decisions at Salesforce are fair and based on merit. The same goes for compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, reduction in workforce, recall, training, and education.
Please be aware of scammers who may fraudulently claim to be from Contentful. These types of fraud can occur through copycat websites, fake email addresses claiming to be from our company, or social media. We do not ask for your personal information, such as bank account numbers, identification numbers, etc., through social media or chat-based apps, nor do we request or send money to purchase business equipment. If you suspect fraud, please report it to your local authorities and contact us at security-esk@contentful.com with any information you may have.
By clicking "Apply for this job," I acknowledge that I have read the "Contentful's Candidate Privacy Notice" and hereby consent to the collection, processing, use, and storage of my personal information as described therein.
Applications for this position will be accepted on an ongoing basis.
About The Opportunity
Contentful is looking for a Software Engineer to join our Applied AI product line with a primary focus on Marketplace. In this role, you will help build, maintain, and grow the systems, apps, and workflows that expand what customers can do with Contentful.
You will work across the Marketplace surface area and adjacent Applied AI tooling, helping us deliver high-impact apps, improve the contribution and review pipeline, and scale the ways internal and external developers build on top of Contentful. While Marketplace is the primary focus, this role should also be able to contribute across adjacent Applied AI areas like Extensibility and Developer Experience when priorities call for it.
This role is ideal for an engineer strong in front-end product work but not limited to it: someone comfortable moving between React surfaces, Node.js services, APIs, developer tooling, and production operations as needed. We are looking for a product-minded full-stack engineer who enjoys strong cross-functional collaboration and taking growing ownership of software through its full lifecycle in production.
We are also evolving how we build software. We increasingly use AI-assisted development workflows to accelerate delivery, reduce menial workload, and improve leverage across the software development lifecycle. We are looking for an engineer who is genuinely excited to experiment with these tools — not just adopt them passively, but bring strong engineering instincts to getting the most out of them.
This is a hybrid role, with office attendance in Denver expected 2 days per week (Tuesday, Thursday).
What To Expect?
- Design, build, and maintain Marketplace features, apps, and supporting services that improve the experience for both app builders and app installers.
- Contribute to the systems and tooling that help Contentful teams and partners bring new apps and integrations to market faster.
- Contribute across adjacent Applied AI problem spaces, including extensibility workflows, developer tooling, internal platform capabilities, and backend services that support developers building on Contentful.
- Improve contribution workflows, trust and safety checks, maintainability, and operational quality across Marketplace and Applied AI surfaces.
- Partner closely with product, design, and engineers across Applied AI to shape solutions that solve meaningful customer and business problems.
- Help generalize, polish, and productionize internally built apps and Applied AI contributions so they can be supported long-term by Marketplace Engineering.
- Own software in production, including debugging issues, improving observability, strengthening reliability, and participating in support and operational responsibilities.
- Use AI-assisted workflows across planning, implementation, debugging, and documentation where they create real leverage.
- Help the team improve how we use AI in engineering by sharing practices, refining workflows, and contributing to a healthy engineering culture around quality and speed.
What You Need To Be Successful
- Roughly 4-7 years of relevant software engineering experience
- Solid professional software engineering experience building and maintaining production systems.
- Strong experience with TypeScript and Node.js, plus solid experience building user-facing product surfaces in React or similar front-end frameworks.
- Clear strength in front-end engineering, paired with real comfort contributing to backend services, APIs, and developer-facing tooling rather than working exclusively in the UI layer.
- Experience designing and evolving APIs, integrations, and services used by other engineers, partners, or customers.
- Good judgment around reliability, maintainability, security, and technical tradeoffs in a product environment.
- Comfort working across the stack and across boundaries, from user experience to backend behavior to operational concerns.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, including experience working cross-functionally and asynchronously across teams and time zones.
- A product mindset and real empathy for developers, partners, and customers.
- Practical experience using AI tools to improve engineering productivity, with the ability to evaluate outputs critically and maintain a high quality bar.
Nice to Have
- Experience with developer platforms, SDKs, app frameworks, marketplaces, extensibility products, or integration ecosystems.
- Experience with AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Cloudflare, or related cloud infrastructure.
- Experience maintaining or contributing to public or shared developer tooling.
- Familiarity with AI-native product surfaces, agentic workflows, or systems that connect software to external tools and services.
What's In It For You?
- Join an ambitious tech company reshaping the way people build digital experiences
- Comprehensive healthcare package covering 100% of monthly health premiums for employees and 85% of costs for your dependents.
- Fertility and family building benefits, including a lifetime reimbursable wallet to support your growing family.
- We value Work-Life balance and You Time! A generous amount of paid time off, including vacation days, sick days, compassion days for loss, education days, and volunteer days
- Company paid parental leave to care for and focus on your growing family
- Use your personal annual education budget to improve your skills and grow in your career
- Enjoy a full range of virtual and in-person events, including workshops, guest speakers, and fun team activities, supporting learning and networking exchange beyond the usual work duties
- An annual wellbeing stipend to care for your physical, financial, or emotional health
- A monthly communication stipend and phone hardware upgrade reimbursement.
- New hire office equipment stipend for hybrid or distributed employees. Get the gear you need to work at your best.
At Salesforce, we believe in equitable compensation practices that reflect the dynamic nature of labor markets across various regions. The typical base salary range for this position is $117,200-$161,200 annually.
Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process. The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.
This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Applicants must be authorized to work without the need for visa sponsorship by the start date of employment.
Contentful is now officially part of Salesforce.
Unleash Your Potential
When you join Salesforce, you'll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we'll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future — but to redefine what's possible — for yourself, for AI, and the world.
If you need reasonable accommodations at any point during the application or interview process, please let your Recruiter know.
Equal Opportunity Statement
Salesforce is an equal opportunity employer and maintains a policy of non-discrimination with all employees and applicants for employment. What does that mean exactly? It means that at Salesforce, we believe in equality for all. And we believe we can lead the path to equality in part by creating a workplace that's inclusive, and free from discrimination.
Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal. Any employee or potential employee will be assessed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications – without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, transgender status, age, disability, veteran or marital status, political viewpoint, or other classifications protected by law. This policy applies to current and prospective employees, no matter where they are in their Salesforce employment journey. It also applies to recruiting, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, assessment of job performance, discipline, termination, and everything in between. Recruiting, hiring, and promotion decisions at Salesforce are fair and based on merit. The same goes for compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, reduction in workforce, recall, training, and education.
Please be aware of scammers who may fraudulently claim to be from Contentful. These types of fraud can occur through copycat websites, fake email addresses claiming to be from our company, or social media. We do not ask for your personal information, such as bank account numbers, identification numbers, etc., through social media or chat-based apps, nor do we request or send money to purchase business equipment. If you suspect fraud, please report it to your local authorities and contact us at security-esk@contentful.com with any information you may have.
By clicking "Apply for this job," I acknowledge that I have read the "Contentful's Candidate Privacy Notice" and hereby consent to the collection, processing, use, and storage of my personal information as described therein.
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Top Industries Hiring
- Automotive
- Manufacturing
- Agriculture & Farming
- Technology & Software
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What Colorado Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in senior AI software engineer jobs across Colorado.
- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, artificial intelligence, or a closely related field
- Five or more years of professional experience building and deploying machine learning or deep learning systems
- Proficiency in Python and modern ML frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX
- Demonstrated experience designing and maintaining MLOps pipelines and model serving infrastructure
- Ability to obtain or hold an active U.S. security clearance for defense and aerospace roles in Colorado
- Strong background in large language models, transformer architectures, or reinforcement learning
Senior AI Software Engineer Jobs in Colorado: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a senior ai software engineer in Colorado?
Colorado does not require a state-issued license to work as an AI software engineer. The path typically starts with a bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, machine learning, or a related field, followed by progressively senior engineering roles. Many Colorado employers in aerospace and defense, such as those along the Front Range corridor, also expect candidates to qualify for a federal security clearance, which becomes a practical requirement worth pursuing early in your career.
How much do senior AI software engineers make in Colorado?
Senior AI software engineers in Colorado earn a median of about $138,390 a year, based on May 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, ranging from around $96,480 for the lowest 10% to over $213,010 for the top 10%. Pay rises with experience, specialty, and employer.
Which companies hire senior ai software engineers in Colorado?
Colorado senior ai software engineer roles are posted by Keysight Technologies, Fivetran, and Mears Group and others right now, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of September 2026. Colorado's concentration of aerospace primes, cloud infrastructure teams, and venture-backed deep tech firms creates a broad mix of employer types actively competing for senior AI talent.
Which Colorado cities have the most senior ai software engineer jobs?
Denver, Colorado Springs, and Aurora have the most senior ai software engineer openings in Colorado. Denver anchors demand through its large enterprise tech and fintech presence, Boulder draws AI research roles tied to university spinouts and cloud companies, and Colorado Springs is driven by the dense concentration of defense contractors and military commands that require AI engineering support with security clearances.
Are there remote senior ai software engineer jobs in Colorado?
Yes, and more than most fields. About 56% of senior ai software engineer openings tied to Colorado are remote or hybrid as of September 2026, reflecting how well the work translates to distributed teams. Roles focused on model development, research, and cloud infrastructure tend to be the most remote-friendly, while positions requiring classified network access or on-site hardware integration at defense facilities remain on-site.
How can I get hired as a senior ai software engineer in Colorado with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is through a machine learning engineer or data scientist role at a mid-size Colorado tech company or a large employer like Google's Boulder office or a Front Range aerospace firm, then building toward seniority. Contributing to open-source ML projects, completing a graduate certificate in AI, and earning a cloud ML certification give candidates a concrete edge. Defense contractors along the I-25 corridor also hire associate engineers into cleared pipelines where mentorship and progression are structured from day one.
Where can I find and apply to senior ai software engineer jobs in Colorado?
You can find and apply to senior ai software engineer jobs in Colorado on Migrate Mate, which lists current Colorado openings in one place. Search the roles that fit your experience level and specialization, then apply directly to the ones that match.
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