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Senior AI/Machine Learning Engineer - Python | TheLoops

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9 days ago
Palo Alto, CA, USASenior

Base Salary

$170k - $185k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement scalable AI services and platform capabilities supporting intelligent agents and enterprise workflows.
  • Build reusable SDKs, APIs, orchestration layers, and shared services for AI application development.
  • Develop production-grade solutions using LLMs, embeddings, RAG architectures, vector databases, memory systems, and agent frameworks.
  • Create prompt engineering approaches, evaluation strategies, guardrails, quality metrics, and monitoring mechanisms.
  • Deliver complex AI initiatives from architecture and design through production deployment.
  • Optimize system latency, accuracy, cost, reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency.
  • Apply testing, infrastructure automation, monitoring, governance, compliance, and security practices.
  • Troubleshoot distributed AI services and integrations and conduct root-cause analysis.
  • Collaborate with engineers, product managers, architects, and domain experts to translate requirements into scalable solutions.
  • Provide technical guidance, mentor or support teammates, and contribute to documentation and engineering best practices.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years building AI/ML-powered applications in production environments.
  • Strong proficiency in Python and experience designing backend systems and APIs.
  • Experience with LLMs, agent frameworks, RAG architectures, vector databases, embeddings, and AI orchestration platforms.
  • Hands-on experience with platforms such as OpenAI, Azure AI, Anthropic, Hugging Face, LangChain, LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, Pinecone, Weaviate, or equivalent technologies.
  • Understanding of software architecture, cloud-native development, microservices, and scalable system design.
  • Experience building and operating production applications in cloud environments.
  • Strong problem-solving, debugging, and performance optimization skills.
  • Effective communication and collaboration skills.
  • Preferred experience with agentic AI systems, copilots, multi-agent workflows, autonomous enterprise applications, AI evaluation, LLM observability, AI governance, responsible AI, Azure/AWS/GCP AI ecosystems, enterprise platform integrations, and mentoring junior engineers.

Benefits

  • Salary range of $170,000 to $185,000 plus bonus potential.
  • Flexible paid time off, including sick and holiday leave.
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • 401K with company contribution.
  • Flexible spending accounts.
  • Life insurance and disability benefits.
  • Tuition assistance and community involvement and volunteering events.
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