# Junior Software Engineer (AI-Forward)

**Company:** [Texas Sports Academy Main](http://jobs.workable.com/companies/msWwuDKBiDwbttWn9TomUh.md)
**Location:** Austin, United States
**Workplace:** on site

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## Description

As a Junior Software Engineer with Texas Sports Academy, you'll help build the software that runs our school, student records, academic mastery tracking, training data, parent portals, admissions, and the AI-powered tools our guides and coaches use every day. This is an early-career, AI-forward seat. You'll work directly with the founders and senior engineers, ship code every week with AI in your loop, and grow into the LLM-powered features that make our school feel nothing like a traditional school.

### What You Will Be Doing

-   Building and shipping product features across the full stack every week, with AI coding tools running alongside you.
-   Contributing to real LLM-powered product features: tutoring agents, parent-facing copilots, coach-facing dashboards, retrieval over student data, and the evals behind them.
-   Working directly with the founders and senior engineers on scope and trade-offs, no PM layer in between.
-   Picking up ownership of smaller systems end-to-end and growing into bigger ones.
-   Running your own AI coding workflow, prompts, subagents, custom tools, MCP servers, and getting sharper at it every week.
-   Writing evals and regression tests for AI features the same way you'd write unit tests for classical code.

### What You Will NOT Be Doing

-   Pretending AI is optional. If you're not already coding with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or an equivalent agent loop, this role is not for you.
-   Sitting in status meetings all day. Few meetings, more shipping.
-   Working on a narrow slice of a giant codebase.
-   Waiting around for tickets. You'll be in the room when we decide what to build.

### Key Responsibilities

-   Ship production code and AI features that real students, parents, and staff rely on every day.
-   Own smaller systems and features end-to-end as you ramp up.
-   Move fast. Features go from idea to production in days, not quarters, without breaking things.
-   Level up your AI-engineering chops alongside a senior team.

## Requirements

-   Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, or Physics.
-   0 to 2 years of full-time engineering experience. Strong internships, side projects, and shipped personal work count.
-   Daily, fluent use of AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Windsurf, Aider, or equivalent) as your default way of writing software.
-   Comfortable in a modern web stack (TypeScript / React / Node or Python / Postgres / AWS or GCP).
-   Excellent written English.
-   Based in Austin, TX.

### Nice to Have

-   At least one shipped LLM-powered project, school project, hackathon, or side project, with some kind of eval story.
-   Agent frameworks (LangGraph, CrewAI, Mastra, custom), vector search / RAG, evals (Braintrust, LangSmith, custom), prompt caching, MCP servers, structured output / tool-use, or voice agents.
-   Public GitHub or a personal AI project we can actually try.
-   A personal project you built because you wanted to.
-   Background in education, edtech, or sports.