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Software Engineer
Posted: 08/12/2026
Employment Type:
Contract
Job Number: 32241
Job Location: Onsite
Industry: SEMI - Semiconductor
Job Description
Job Title: Software Engineer
Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting contract Software Engineer with our client located in San Jose, CA.
Job Description:
Job Qualifications:
Job Details:
Benefits Package: Protingent offers competitive salaries, insurance plan options (HDHP plan or POS plan), education/certification reimbursement, pre-tax commuter benefits, Paid Time Off (PTO), and an administered 401k plan.
About Protingent: Protingent is an Award-Winning provider of top-tier Engineering and IT talent, trusted by companies at the forefront of innovation — from Software and Aerospace to AI, Clean Tech, Medical Devices, and Connected Technologies. We’re passionate about making a positive impact by connecting exceptional talent with meaningful opportunities and helping our clients build the future.
Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting contract Software Engineer with our client located in San Jose, CA.
Job Description:
- We're looking for a junior software engineer who can help build production applications powered by agentic AI.
- You'll work primarily in Python, designing and integrating APIs and shipping features that incorporate LLM capabilities into real software systems.
Job Qualifications:
- B.S. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field — or equivalent practical experience
- 0-2 years of software engineering experience; internships, co-ops, and substantial personal/open-source projects count
- Solid Python fundamentals: writing clean, testable code, working with common tooling (git, virtual environments, debugging), and reading others' code
- Experience building or integrating with REST APIs, e.g., experience in designing endpoints (FastAPI, Flask, Django), consuming third-party APIs, handling authentication, pagination, and/or error cases
- Basic software engineering hygiene: version control, code review, writing tests, and working in a team workflow
- Familiarity with agentic AI concepts — tool/function calling, prompt chaining, or agent loops — demonstrated through coursework, hackathons, personal projects, or work experience. Exposure to frameworks like LangGraph, LangChain, or similar is a strong plus
- Some hands-on experience calling LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, or open-source models) as part of a larger application Bonus
- Exposure to databases (SQL or NoSQL), caching, or message queues
- Experience with async/concurrent programming in Python
- Familiarity with RAG concepts: embeddings, vector databases, retrieval pipelines
Job Details:
- Job Type: Contract
- Pay Range: $60-$70/hr.
- Location: San Jose, CA (Onsite).
Benefits Package: Protingent offers competitive salaries, insurance plan options (HDHP plan or POS plan), education/certification reimbursement, pre-tax commuter benefits, Paid Time Off (PTO), and an administered 401k plan.
About Protingent: Protingent is an Award-Winning provider of top-tier Engineering and IT talent, trusted by companies at the forefront of innovation — from Software and Aerospace to AI, Clean Tech, Medical Devices, and Connected Technologies. We’re passionate about making a positive impact by connecting exceptional talent with meaningful opportunities and helping our clients build the future.
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