Staff AI Engineer
Robots and Pencils8 hours ago
Lviv, UkraineStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture and implementation of complex AI/ML systems from research through production at scale.
- Build scalable ML platforms, pipelines, and infrastructure for repeatable model development and deployment.
- Develop and optimize production generative AI and agentic systems, including RAG pipelines and evaluation capabilities.
- Define AI architecture, engineering standards, responsible AI practices, and long-term technical direction.
- Lead design reviews and communicate AI tradeoffs, risks, and opportunities to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through coaching, code reviews, and pairing on challenging work.
- Own ambiguous, high-stakes initiatives while balancing reliability, cost, safety, and scalability.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of professional software engineering experience, including at least 4 years focused on AI/ML systems in production.
- Expert software engineering experience with Python or a similar language and scalable, maintainable system design.
- Deep expertise with cloud platforms, AWS services, and AWS generative AI offerings.
- Proven experience designing and shipping complex agentic systems in production.
- Mastery of AI frameworks and orchestration tools, plus strong experience with LLM application evaluation and observability.
- Deep knowledge of AI safety, responsible AI, prompt injection defenses, and PII handling.
- Extensive experience building RAG pipelines, including chunking strategies, embedding models, vector databases, and advanced retrieval techniques.
- Experience designing and integrating internal and third-party APIs at scale.
- Advanced cost optimization expertise involving token economics, caching, model routing, and quantization.
- Strong working knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes for containerized deployments.
- Expert, day-to-day usage of AI-forward coding tools such as Claude Code and Cursor.
- Experience mentoring engineers and shaping AI engineering practices across a team or organization.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and sound judgment in ambiguous technical and business situations.
Benefits
- 20 days of paid vacation.
- 15 days of unpaid vacation.
- All official public holidays off.
- Five paid sick days without a doctor's certificate.
- Medical insurance.
- Military draft deferment support.
- Cooperation under a gig-contract.
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About Robots and Pencils
Robots & Pencils is an applied AI engineering firm that designs, builds, and runs production AI systems and agentic co-workers for enterprise operations, with a focus on AWS. The privately held company, founded in 2009 and headquartered in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, provides consulting and implementation services spanning data readiness, cloud modernization, and AI enablement. It is an AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner with delivery teams across the U.S., Canada, Eastern Europe, and Latin America.