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Associate AI Engineer

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11 hours ago
Remote, United StatesEntry Level

Base Salary

$80k - $120k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Improve AI-powered chat and voice services used in customer-service and lending workflows.
  • Build and maintain agent workflows, API-integrated tools, guardrails, retrieval rules, escalation paths, and production releases.
  • Create automated tests, simulations, monitoring, tagging, quality-assurance systems, and metrics for conversational workflows.
  • Analyze production failures and build pipelines that provide conversational data for analytics and reporting.
  • Build Python services, APIs, data and evaluation pipelines, internal tools, and integrations with Figure’s internal services.
  • Support deployment, monitoring, containerization, CI/CD, security, governance, auditability, and reliable handling of customer data and regulated workflows.

Requirements

  • Strong programming fundamentals and practical Python experience.
  • Working knowledge of SQL and structured data analysis.
  • Ability to break ambiguous problems into testable components, read unfamiliar code, and trace system behavior.
  • Strong written communication, attention to detail, collaborative skills, and interest in AI behavior, analytics, backend systems, and product workflows.
  • Experience building an API, backend service, automation, data pipeline, or internal tool is a strong signal.
  • Experience evaluating LLMs or conversational agents, testing nondeterministic systems, or applying experimental design, statistics, causal inference, or econometrics is advantageous.
  • Familiarity with retrieval-augmented generation, agent tools, workflow engines, model evaluation, TypeScript, modern frontend frameworks, cloud platforms, Docker, or infrastructure as code is advantageous.
  • A degree or research background in economics, computer science, statistics, engineering, or another quantitative discipline is preferred but not required; unconventional backgrounds are welcome.

Benefits

  • Base compensation is $80,000-$120,000 annually, with a 25% annual bonus target and RSU equity.
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage are available, with 100% employer-paid premiums on select plans.
  • Benefits include HSA, FSA, Dependent Care FSA, 401(k), commuter benefits, life and disability insurance, 11 observed holidays, PTO, up to 12 weeks of paid family leave, and continuing education reimbursement.
  • The role is hybrid.
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About Figure

501-1,000 employees

Figure builds autonomous humanoid robots designed to take on general-purpose work in manufacturing, logistics, and other industrial settings. The company develops the hardware, control software, and AI stack and plans to commercialize through robot deployments and ongoing service/support contracts. Founded in 2022 and headquartered in San Jose, CA, Figure is privately held and has publicly announced a collaboration with OpenAI to advance its robots’ reasoning and manipulation capabilities.

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