AI Engineer (LLM & Generative AI)
Location: US East Coast (Remote)
Experience: 6-12 Years
We’re partnering with a fast-growing venture-backed AI startup that’s building and deploying production-grade AI solutions for large enterprise customers. They are looking for an experienced AI Engineer to lead the implementation and deployment of a custom AI platform for a major financial services organization.
This is a hands‑on, high‑impact role for someone who thrives in startup environments, enjoys solving complex technical challenges, and has experience taking AI products from concept to production.
What You’ll Do
- Lead the end-to-end implementation of a customized AI/LLM platform within a large enterprise environment
- Design, build, and deploy production‑grade AI applications and services
- Collaborate closely with a globally distributed engineering team to integrate customer‑specific functionality into the core platform
- Own system reliability, performance, and scalability across AI‑powered workflows
- Act as a technical partner to customer engineering and technology stakeholders
- Troubleshoot complex production issues and drive solutions independently
- Contribute to architecture decisions, platform evolution, and engineering best practices
Tech Stack
- Python
- Large Language Models (LLMs)
- Generative AI
- Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG)
- Agentic AI Systems
- Kubernetes
- CI/CD Pipelines
- REST APIs
- AWS, GCP, or Azure
Required Experience
- 6-12 years of software engineering experience, with a strong focus on backend or AI engineering
- Proven experience building and deploying LLM‑based or agentic AI applications in production
- Strong Python development skills and experience delivering customer‑facing product features end-to-end
- Deep understanding of software architecture, distributed systems, and system design
- Experience working directly with enterprise customers and shipping production software
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
Ideal Background
- Currently or recently working at a high‑growth, venture‑backed AI startup (Series A-D)
- Experience building AI products used by external customers rather than internal‑only tools
- Comfortable operating in fast‑paced, ownership‑driven environments
- Strong communication skills and ability to work directly with technical stakeholders
Nice to Have
- Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- Kubernetes and containerized deployments
- CI/CD automation and observability tooling
- Experience operating AI systems in regulated or enterprise environments
Not the Right Fit If
- Your experience is primarily research-focused with limited production deployment ownership
- You’ve mainly worked as a Data Scientist, Data Engineer, ML Researcher, or DevOps/SRE without significant software engineering responsibility
- You’re looking for a highly structured large‑enterprise environment rather than a startup setting
Why Join?
- Build real AI products being used in production today
- Work directly with enterprise customers solving high‑value problems
- High ownership and autonomy from day one
- Opportunity to shape the future of an AI platform at a rapidly growing startup
- Collaborative, execution‑focused engineering culture
Interested? We’d love to hear from engineers who have successfully taken LLM‑powered products from prototype to production and enjoy owning technical outcomes end-to-end.