Senior Staff AI Engineer
GE VernovaBase Salary
$128k - $213k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead enterprise full-stack and AI platform architecture across multiple company initiatives.
- Identify and deliver reusable AI components for forward-deployed engineers.
- Design and ship resilient APIs and microservices.
- Build RAG, multimodal LLM, and agentic workflow features for autonomous tasks.
- Own technical decisions involving reliability, performance, and cloud cost.
- Set standards for AI-assisted development and establish prompt and model-performance testing.
- Implement observability for AI features.
- Lead technical reviews and integrations while mentoring engineers and guiding contractors and partners.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related technical field.
- At least 8 years of experience with a general-purpose programming language such as Python, Java, or Go, plus front-end experience with JavaScript or TypeScript.
- Track record of shipping production applications incorporating LLMs or AI services at scale.
- Experience leading technical teams and providing guidance to external contractors or vendors.
- Strong experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure and advanced Docker and Kubernetes containerization.
- Experience with technical oversight, code review processes, and quality assurance methodologies.
- Preferred: 13+ years of AI/ML experience including architectural design, technical leadership, and system optimization.
- Preferred: experience with React, Vue, or Angular; advanced state management; vector databases; embedding model optimization; multiple LLM providers; LangChain or LlamaIndex; enterprise RAG; semantic search; conversation memory; and AI features serving 100,000+ users.
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States and complete a drug screen when applicable.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.
- 24/7 nurse-based Health Coach and Employee Assistance Program resources.
- 401(k) retirement savings plan with matching and company retirement contributions, plus Fidelity and financial planning resources.
- Tuition assistance, adoption assistance, paid parental leave, disability benefits, life insurance, 12 paid holidays, and permissive time off.
- Relocation assistance is provided.
- Cambridge-based employees must complete a required three-month hybrid onboarding residency in Niskayuna, NY; travel, housing, and a living stipend are provided.
- Work is based out of an office in Niskayuna, NY or Cambridge, MA.
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About GE Vernova
GE Vernova is a purpose-built energy technology company on a mission to electrify to thrive and decarbonize the world. It is made up of three businesses -- Power, Electrification, and Wind -- with focus on accelerating the path to more reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy, while helping our customers power economies and deliver the electricity that is vital to health, safety, security, and improved quality of life. The world needs more energy, smarter energy. With energy demand expected to grow by more than 50% in the next 20 years, we are continuously innovating to meet the moment…like we have for the past 130 years. The Energy of Change and relentless optimism are what drive us – it’s about never giving up and seeing what’s possible so that we deliver the energy technologies the world needs right now and for generations to come. GE Vernova’s attitude and edge is embedded in its name. We retain our treasured legacy, “GE,” as an enduring and hard-earned badge of quality and ingenuity. “Ver” / “verde” signal Earth’s verdant and lush ecosystems. “Nova,” from the Latin “novus,” nods to a new, innovative era of lower carbon energy that GE Vernova will help deliver. Together, we have the energy to change the world.