Remote AI Engineer — Production-Focused, Early Career

Pivots Global LLC; Philippines; Remote; PHP 3,701,418 - 5,860,579; Full time

Job summary

Pergola Studio is hiring an AI Research Engineer (Early Career) to join a remote, EU/US-timezone team. You will build and refine agentic workflows, retrieval systems, and model integrations that ship to customers, owning pieces of the stack from prototype to deployment.

The role targets recent graduates or those with 0–2 years of experience who can contribute production-grade code, learn quickly, and collaborate effectively in a fully remote setup.

Qualifications

• Recent graduate or early-career engineer (0-2 years) from a strong CS/Math/ML program.
• Solid software engineering fundamentals and production-quality code.
• Genuinely curious about how LLMs, RAG, and AI agents work under the hood.
• Comfortable being self-directed in a small, fast-moving, fully remote team.
• Strong written communicator with async, remote-first collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Build and iterate on agentic workflows, retrieval pipelines, and LLM integrations that ship into production.
• Collaborate with senior engineers on architecture and design decisions, not just implementation.
• Own well-scoped pieces of the stack from prototype through deployment and monitoring.
• Contribute to evaluation and testing of model behavior, prompts, and retrieval quality.
• Learn production ML engineering practices—versioning, observability, cost/latency tradeoffs—through mentorship.

Skills

Production ML

LLMs

RAG pipelines

Systems thinking

Education

CS/ML degree

Job description

Pergola Studio is hiring an AI Research Engineer (Early Career) to join a remote, EU/US-timezone team. You will build and refine agentic workflows, retrieval systems, and model integrations that ship to customers, owning pieces of the stack from prototype to deployment.

The role targets recent graduates or those with 0–2 years of experience who can contribute production-grade code, learn quickly, and collaborate effectively in a fully remote setup.