Research Engineer, Applied AI Engineering
OuterSignalabout 5 hours ago
New York, NY, USAMid Level / Senior
Responsibilities
- Build and improve production AI/data pipelines across various systems.
- Design evaluations and create Jupyter notebooks to measure model behavior and data quality.
- Implement observability in AI workflows to assess cost, latency, and reliability.
- Experiment with new models and retrieval strategies to enhance performance.
- Integrate with evolving AI APIs and build robust abstractions around them.
- Define infrastructure for future inference serving and model evaluation.
Requirements
- Strong engineering skills with experience in distributed systems and data pipelines.
- Fluency in modern AI tools and methodologies.
- Ability to turn ambiguous problems into structured experiments and solutions.
- Good judgment in simplifying complex systems for maintainability.
- Focus on measurement and data-driven decision-making.
- Bonus: Experience with PyTorch, Hugging Face, and model evaluation systems.
Benefits
- Opportunity to shape the Applied AI Engineering organization from the ground up.
- Meaningful equity in a venture-backed company.
- Work on real AI systems that impact customers and revenue.
- Connect research ideas to production systems and customer-facing products.
- Join at a pivotal moment with strong product-market fit and growth potential.