Senior AI Engineer

Senior AI Engineer I (Senior Staff)

Senior AI Engineer I (Senior Staff) leads the design, development, and optimization of advanced AI and machine learning systems. This role partners closely with architects, product leaders, and engineering teams to deliver end‑to‑end, cloud‑native AI solutions that are scalable, secure, and production‑ready. As a senior staff‑level individual contributor, you will drive technical decision‑making across data, model, and infrastructure layers, resolve complex engineering challenges, and establish technical standards that elevate team‑wide engineering practices.

• Designing and implementing complex AI/ML systems, pipelines, and model‑serving architectures for enterprise workloads.
• Developing reusable frameworks, libraries, and tools to accelerate AI engineering across teams.
• Analyzing large‑scale datasets, model telemetry, and inference performance to drive optimization strategies.
• Architecting distributed training, evaluation, and experimentation workflows to improve model reliability and accuracy.
• Collaborating with senior stakeholders to define technical requirements, solution approaches, and feasibility assessments.
• Providing hands‑on technical leadership through design reviews, code reviews, and mentorship of junior and mid‑level engineers.
• Implementing advanced automated testing, including stress testing, bias detection, non‑regression testing, and quality validation.
• Troubleshooting complex pipeline failures, infrastructure issues, and distributed system bottlenecks.
• Optimizing performance across the full model lifecycle, including data preprocessing, training, and inference.
• Documenting architectural decisions, engineering patterns, and best practices to strengthen organizational knowledge.
• Contributing expert‑level recommendations to AI roadmap planning and future capability development.
• Participating in incident response and operational support for deployed AI systems.
• Researching and evaluating emerging AI, generative AI, and cloud technologies for enterprise applicability.

• 4+ years of professional experience in AI/ML engineering or software engineering.
• Demonstrated experience leading technical efforts or mentoring engineers.
• Deep proficiency in Python, modern ML frameworks, and cloud‑native engineering practices.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, data pipelines, and model optimization techniques.
• Proven ability to lead technical designs and perform advanced debugging across complex systems.
• Effective communication skills for cross‑functional technical alignment.
• Willingness to travel occasionally for cross‑functional planning and collaboration.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
• Master’s degree or equivalent advanced study in a relevant technical discipline.
• Cloud and AI certifications, including Azure (AZ‑900, AI‑900, AI‑102, GH‑900, DP/AB series) or equivalent AWS/GCP certifications.
• Databricks Generative AI Associate certification.
• Advanced hands‑on experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Strong experience with containerization (Docker), Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, GKE), and infrastructure automation (Terraform).
• Experience with cloud ML platforms such as Sage Maker, Vertex AI, or Azure ML.
• Hands‑on experience with GPU and accelerator‑based workloads and distributed training jobs.
• Strong knowledge of observability, monitoring, and performance tuning for AI systems.
• Advanced generative AI expertise, including fine‑tuning transformer models using PyTorch and/or Tensor Flow.
• Experience designing and deploying RAG systems using vector databases (e.g., Pinecone, Weaviate, FAISS).
• Experience building GenAI services with frameworks such as Lang Chain or Llama Index.
• Experience integrating and evaluating LLM APIs (e.g., OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Gemini).
• Familiarity with parameter‑efficient fine‑tuning techniques (PEFT, LoRA, QLoRA).
• Experience designing evaluation frameworks for LLM quality, safety, bias, latency, and scalability.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and solve complex, ambiguous problems.

$74,100.00 – $ per…