AI Engineer / AI Architect
Robots and Pencils2 months ago
Remote, ColombiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define scalable AI system architectures and translate ambiguous business opportunities into technical approaches.
- Lead the design and implementation of ML systems, model services, inference pipelines, AI platforms, and agentic orchestration frameworks.
- Build training, evaluation, deployment, data ingestion, feature engineering, and model-serving workflows.
- Establish LLMOps practices, prompt versioning, model observability, reliability standards, and cost-efficient AI infrastructure.
- Operationalize research prototypes into production systems and define evaluation, validation, and rollout strategies.
- Mentor AI engineers, lead code reviews, enforce engineering standards, and guide tradeoffs across performance, scalability, cost, and complexity.
- Partner with product, engineering, and executive stakeholders to shape AI roadmaps and align initiatives with measurable business outcomes.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in AI/ML engineering or applied machine learning.
- Proven experience designing and deploying production AI systems.
- Strong software engineering background in Python or a similar language.
- Experience with distributed systems, scalable data architectures, ML pipelines, and automated deployment workflows.
- Deep understanding of MLOps, model lifecycle management, AI infrastructure, reliability, observability, and performance optimization.
- Demonstrated technical leadership, architectural judgment, mentoring experience, and strong communication skills.
- Preferred experience with generative AI, LLM systems, retrieval-augmented architectures, multi-agent systems, cloud-based AI platforms, infrastructure-as-code, consulting or professional services, and regulated or security-sensitive domains.
- Hands-on AWS experience and AWS Associate or Professional certification, or equivalent practical AWS expertise, are preferred.
Benefits
- Applications are limited to candidates in Colombia; applications from outside Colombia will not be considered.
- The role offers collaboration with US-based clients and exposure to complex real-world AI projects.
- Employees have access to specialized training, emerging cloud capabilities, and advanced engineering resources through the company’s AWS partnerships.
- The position provides professional growth through work with experienced architects and senior engineers in an applied AI engineering environment.
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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.