Senior AI Engineer
PLACE Corporate Careersabout 7 hours ago
Remote, United StatesSenior / Staff+
Base Salary
$90k - $150k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and deliver production AI and agentic systems across document intelligence and workflow automation.
- Own architecture decisions for LLM-based systems, including retrieval, orchestration, memory, tool use, and evaluation.
- Build and maintain evals and observability frameworks to ensure system quality, reliability, and performance.
- Optimize systems for cost and latency at production scale.
- Partner closely with AI Product to scope, sequence, and deliver high-impact features.
- Collaborate with Data Engineering on pipelines, schemas, and data quality foundations.
- Mentor engineers working on AI-adjacent systems and elevate team capabilities.
- Evaluate vendors, models, and tools through POCs, benchmarking, and cost-performance analysis.
- Ship quickly, iterate in production, and continuously improve system performance.
Requirements
- 6+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years building and shipping production LLM/ML systems.
- Proven experience designing and deploying agentic systems.
- Strong Python proficiency with production-grade coding, testing, and deployment practices.
- Hands-on experience with LLM APIs, including prompting and structured outputs.
- Deep experience with evals and observability for LLM systems.
- Experience building retrieval systems and working with vector databases.
- Solid cloud infrastructure experience, preferably with AWS.
- Strong system design mindset across LLM architecture.
- Ability to manage cost and latency tradeoffs in production AI systems.
- Clear communicator who can write design docs and collaborate cross-functionally.
- Ownership mindset: ships end-to-end and operates effectively in production environments.
Benefits
- Work from the PLACE you work best—at home, in an office, or on the move.
- Competitive benefits including PTO as needed and comprehensive insurance coverage.
- 401(k) match and stock option grants.
- Stock purchase plan available.