Senior AI Engineer (2 year LTE)
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation3 months ago
Base Salary
$173k - $260k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop agentic AI systems with multi-step workflows, tool use, and autonomous task orchestration using LLM-based frameworks.
- Design, build, deploy, monitor, and optimize scalable AI and ML solutions using Python and Microsoft Azure services.
- Integrate AI capabilities into enterprise applications and workflows through APIs, microservices, and Azure architecture.
- Translate business and technical requirements into secure, scalable, maintainable, production-ready solutions.
- Support data preparation, prompt engineering, evaluation, observability, troubleshooting, and production issue resolution.
- Contribute to architecture discussions, code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, reusable components, shared frameworks, documentation, and engineering standards.
- Collaborate with engineers, product managers, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to deliver AI solutions and improve performance, usability, cost, and reliability.
- Use AI-assisted coding tools and share knowledge with other engineers while staying current with emerging AI technologies.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience; the role typically requires an advanced degree or equivalent experience.
- Minimum of 8 years of prior relevant experience.
- At least 3 years of professional experience with cloud technologies, preferably Azure.
- Strong Python programming, analytical, problem-solving, communication, collaboration, and influencing skills.
- Hands-on experience with Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex, or comparable AI-assisted coding tools.
- Hands-on experience with state-of-the-art LLMs, agentic systems, RAG architecture, graph technologies, embeddings, tokenization, evaluation, observability, LangChain, and LlamaIndex.
- Experience deploying, monitoring, and maintaining production ML and LLM systems.
- Understanding of data privacy, security, compliance, AI ethics, and responsible AI development.
- Ability to prototype, iterate, and productionize AI solutions that deliver measurable business value.
- Experience with agile development methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban.
- Ability to travel as needed, participate in on-call duties, and work effectively across geographic and cultural boundaries.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with no premiums.
- Generous paid time off, paid family leave, foundation-paid retirement contribution, and regional holidays.
- Opportunities to participate in employee communities and an inclusive workplace focused on professional and personal growth.
- Limited-term 24-month position located in Seattle, Washington.
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring 50% in-office attendance.
- Employment is contingent on successful completion of a background check.
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About Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is a Seattle-based private nonprofit that funds global health, development, U.S. education, and gender equality through grants and program-related investments. Founded in 2000, it partners with governments, researchers, and NGOs to fight infectious disease, improve agriculture and financial inclusion, and expand equitable learning opportunities. Its endowment, backed by Bill Gates, Melinda French Gates, and Warren Buffett, finances long-term initiatives in low- and middle-income countries.