AI/ML Engineer
Astera Labsabout 4 hours ago
San Jose, CA, USAEntry Level / Mid Level
H1B Sponsor
Base Salary
$140k - $165k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build AI applications and agentic workflows for engineering productivity, diagnostics, search, documentation, and workflow automation.
- Design systems that combine LLMs with retrieval, tool use, structured outputs, and evaluation loops.
- Integrate models with internal tools, APIs, CLIs, MCP interfaces, and operational workflows.
- Improve system quality through eval design, prompt and context iteration, model selection, failure analysis, and human feedback.
- Build reusable skills, workflows, and abstractions for shared capabilities across agents and teams.
- Work closely with infrastructure and domain teams to deploy, monitor, and continuously improve AI systems.
Requirements
- 1–5 years of experience in software engineering, applied AI, ML engineering, or related backend/platform roles.
- Strong Python skills and strong production engineering fundamentals.
- Hands-on experience building AI/LLM applications, agents, retrieval-backed systems, or workflow automation.
- Comfort working with tool-using systems where correctness depends on context quality, tool integration, and careful failure handling.
- Experience with AWS or GCP and the realities of deploying and debugging production AI services.
- Good judgment around evals, failure modes, latency/cost tradeoffs, and safe rollout of non-deterministic systems.
- Clear communication and the ability to turn ambiguous technical workflows into robust product behavior.