Senior AI/ML Engineer: Production-Ready, High-Impact

atlas-tech; Colombia; On-site; COP 180,000,000 - 240,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Atlas Tech is seeking a Senior Applied AI/ML Engineer to design, build, and operationalize advanced AI/ML solutions that solve high-impact mission, operational, and business problems. You will lead solution architectures, select models, and translate complex concepts into working capabilities for end users.

You will collaborate with product and engineering teams to deploy production-grade ML systems, monitor performance, and ensure governance and ethics are integrated throughout the lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Data Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 3+ years of experience in applied AI/ML engineering, including production deployments.
• Experience with LLMs, fine-tuning, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), prompt engineering, or custom model training.
• Experience with vector databases, high-dimensional embeddings, and semantic search.
• Experience applying LoRA adapters for efficient fine-tuning of foundation models, including training, evaluation, and integration into production pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deploy scalable AI/ML tools for generative AI use cases
• Develop end-to-end ML pipelines, including LLM tool integration, data ingestion, feature engineering, model training, evaluation, and monitoring
• Implement production-grade inference systems and integrate ML models into applications, APIs, and microservices
• Lead experimentation, define hypotheses, run evaluations, assess model performance, and identify improvement strategies
• Work closely with engineering teams to build robust, secure, and maintainable AI-enabled architectures
• Provide periodic instruction and prompt fine-tuning to resolve newly discovered hallucination vectors, user-reported biases, or changes in operational terminology.
• Partner with domain SMEs to translate real-world constraints into effective features, labels, and model requirements
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies, frameworks, and foundation models and recommend their use in mission-relevant applications
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to internal standards, coding practices, and reusable components
• Ensure responsible AI practices, bias evaluation, data governance, model explainability, and ethical use of automated systems
• Prepare demos, prototypes, and proof-of-concept integrations that clearly illustrate feasibility and value

Skills

Python

LLMs

Prompt engineering

Model evaluation

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS/ML/DS/Engineering

Tools

TensorFlow

PyTorch

scikit-learn

LangChain

Hugging Face

MLflow

SageMaker

Vertex AI

Job description

Atlas Tech is seeking a Senior Applied AI/ML Engineer to design, build, and operationalize advanced AI/ML solutions that solve high-impact mission, operational, and business problems. You will lead solution architectures, select models, and translate complex concepts into working capabilities for end users.

You will collaborate with product and engineering teams to deploy production-grade ML systems, monitor performance, and ensure governance and ethics are integrated throughout the lifecycle.