Senior AI Engineer
Acquisition.com3 months ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
Base 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
Acquisition.com is a privately held investment and advisory firm that partners with entrepreneurs to scale their companies through capital, executive recruiting, and hands-on operating support. Founded in 2021 by Alex and Leila Hormozi and headquartered in Las Vegas, it takes a portfolio approach and focuses on installing systems and decision-grade reporting to drive growth. The firm emphasizes building leadership teams and implementing proven processes to move businesses toward durable, sellable enterprises.