Senior AI Engineer
First Resonance8 months ago
Base Salary
$160k - $190k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, implementation, and optimization of production-ready AI systems within ION Factory OS.
- Ship customer-facing AI and non-AI features that improve manufacturing workflows, including generative procedure creation, anomaly detection, and recommendations.
- Architect and maintain scalable software systems, AI/ML pipelines, and product infrastructure.
- Design RAG pipelines for context-aware insights and recommendations.
- Use MCP and similar frameworks to connect AI models with structured and unstructured data sources and external tools.
- Collaborate with product managers, customers, and data engineering to translate manufacturing challenges and data into software solutions.
- Ensure production reliability, scalability, and maintainability using CI/CD and cloud-native workflows.
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to engineering best practices.
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 3+ years shipping AI/ML-powered products into production.
- Demonstrated experience building and shipping customer-facing applications that deliver measurable business value.
- Experience architecting scalable systems on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Expertise in data modeling, preprocessing, and model evaluation at scale.
- Familiarity with generative AI models, including LLMs, diffusion models, and GANs.
- Strong knowledge of APIs and modern software design patterns for integrating AI into SaaS products.
- Experience with or understanding of RAG and MCP is desired.
- Experience with real-time, low-latency, or edge AI deployments is desired.
- Familiarity with SOC2, GDPR, and ITAR is desired.
- Customer-facing requirements gathering, solution presentation, and value demonstration experience is desired.
- Open-source contributions or published applied AI/ML research is desired.
- Experience mentoring engineers and contributing to engineering best practices is desired.
- Strong problem-solving, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Benefits
- Medical, vision, dental, and life insurance.
- Paid parental leave.
- Employee stock option plan.
- Paid holidays, sick days, flexible Friday, and PTO.
- 401(k).
- Team outings, group lunches, open office, and happy hours.
- Based in Los Angeles, California, with headquarters in El Segundo.
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About First Resonance
First Resonance builds the ION Factory OS, a manufacturing operations platform for complex hardware makers in aerospace, automotive, energy, and other industries. It provides part traceability, workflow execution, and data integration via APIs to connect production, quality, and supply chain across the factory. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Los Angeles, the privately held company sells its software to manufacturers as a subscription and raised a Series C round in 2024.