Senior AI Engineer
Cornell University6 days ago
Ithaca, NY, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$117k - $143k/yr
Responsibilities
- Serve as technical lead for the AI Engineering team and provide expert architectural guidance.
- Design, develop, deploy, and maintain complex production-grade AI applications and enterprise AI systems.
- Define technical patterns, reference architectures, standards, and methodologies for secure, scalable AI applications.
- Integrate AI Innovation Lab services with enterprise systems using identity and authentication protocols.
- Address complex system capacity, operational, distributed-system performance, and reliability challenges.
- Provide technical direction to project teams and mentor developers and technical leads.
- Lead design reviews, evaluate advanced AI solutions, and guide projects throughout the development lifecycle.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, information technology, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Five to seven years of professional software engineering experience with progressively advanced responsibility.
- Experience designing, building, testing, deploying, and maintaining production AI or ML-driven applications.
- Strong experience with cloud-native applications, preferably using AWS or a comparable cloud platform.
- Expertise in Generative AI technologies, API development, distributed systems engineering, and enterprise identity integration.
- Experience with OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, JWT, LDAP, and Microsoft identity services.
- Ability to provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, establish engineering practices, and address complex capacity and performance issues.
- Preferred qualifications include a master’s degree, higher education or research-computing experience, production Generative AI or LLM applications, model orchestration, vector databases, AI agent frameworks, Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, cloud platforms, secure API gateways, model governance, responsible AI, and incident response.
- Preferred experience includes DevOps and MLOps practices, observability, monitoring, logging, metrics, tracing, on-call operations, enterprise integration, grant-funded research, and cross-institution collaborations.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health care options, retirement contributions, wellness programs, and employee discounts.
- Three weeks of vacation, health and personal leave, 13 holidays, winter break from December 25 through January 1, and two floating holidays.
- Tuition-free Extramural Study and Employee Degree Program, tuition aid for external education, and Cornell Children’s Tuition Assistance Program.
- 100% onsite work at the Cornell University Campus in Ithaca, New York.
- No relocation assistance is provided.
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About Cornell University
Weill Cornell Medicine is Cornell University’s academic medical center in New York City, founded in 1898 and organized as a nonprofit. It delivers clinical care (in partnership with NewYork-Presbyterian), trains physicians and scientists through its medical and graduate schools, and conducts biomedical research. Its activities are funded by clinical services, tuition, philanthropy, and research grants, and it operates global programs, including a campus in Qatar awarding Cornell medical degrees.