Senior AI Engineer
Acquisition.comBase Salary
$170k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and deploy production-grade AI agents and end-to-end agentic workflows.
- Integrate LLMs with internal systems, APIs, and data sources while ensuring reliability, performance, and clean abstractions.
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to prioritize, ship, and iterate on AI features.
- Own and improve RAG pipelines across Pinecone namespaces, including chunking, embedding selection, hybrid retrieval, and reranking.
- Build and maintain evaluation frameworks with golden datasets, automated quality scoring, retrieval metrics, latency benchmarks, and regression detection.
- Optimize model routing and tiering to improve unit economics while maintaining output quality.
- Instrument the AI layer for cost, token usage, quality signals, and anomaly detection.
- Support critical launches or events when needed.
Requirements
- 7+ years shipping production software systems, including distributed backends, APIs, deployment pipelines, and monitoring.
- 2+ years building production RAG systems using vector databases such as Pinecone, Qdrant, FAISS, or Weaviate.
- Experience building and deploying production AI agents or multi-step LLM workflows with tool use, orchestration, and system integrations.
- Experience building or contributing to evaluation frameworks for LLM-based products, including retrieval measurement, regression detection, and data-driven model-switching decisions.
- Experience reducing production LLM API costs through model routing, caching, token management, or architectural improvements.
- Experience working across multiple LLM providers such as OpenAI and Anthropic, with knowledge of prompt behavior, token economics, and failure modes.
- Comfortable programming in both TypeScript and Python.
Benefits
- Full-time remote work from the US with quarterly on-sites in Las Vegas.
- Work hours aligned with the local or Pacific timezone, generally 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
- Flexible unlimited paid time off and company-wide holidays.
- Employer-sponsored medical, dental, and vision plans.
- $1,950 annual employer HSA contribution and FSA options including dependent care.
- Employee assistance program and mental health resources.
- Employer match program for Traditional and Roth 401(k) accounts.
- $1,200 annual wellness reimbursement through JOON.
- Access to a state-of-the-art gym at the Las Vegas headquarters for local or visiting team members.
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About Acquisition.com
Most entrepreneurs lack the WHO, the WHAT, and the HOW to SCALE. At Acquisition.com, we partner with companies looking to grow to $100M and beyond. We help recruit the “who”, work with our partners on the “what”, and show them the “how”. Once an entrepreneur has all three, their business scales. WHO Recruit talent with a winning track record to achieve new levels of growth. WHAT Lay out the big initiatives that will grow the company’s value the most, and ruthlessly eliminate everything else. HOW Help partners install our step by step proven growth strategies into each function of the business WHAT OUR PARTNERS GET Triple their revenue in 5 years or less Increase their monthly cash flow Develop a core leadership team to drive growth Grow from “Big Small Business” into “Valuable, Sellable Enterprise” WHO ARE WE? We are a private investment and advisory firm built by experienced entrepreneurs and world-class professionals. WHAT ARE OUR VALUES? Unimpeachable Character Competitive Greatness Sincere Candor We hold these above all else and look for them in our partners. Find out more at www.acquisition.com