AI Engineer

Energy Innovation Corp; Hayward (CA); On-site; USD 109,000 - 161,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Mentorship

Paid growth time

Evening-friendly contract

Job summary

Retail Solutions Group in Hayward, CA is seeking a mid-level AI Engineer to optimize high-throughput workloads and own core technology decisions. You will tune queries, deliver mid-level features, and manage incident postmortems while ensuring uptime during peak traffic.

The role emphasizes initiative, mentorship, and career growth within a supportive team. On-call rotations and evening-friendly contracts are part of the package.

Qualifications

• Critical thinking and independent judgment.
• Comfort owning technology decisions in a CA market.
• Attention to detail that catches what spell-check misses.
• Familiarity with Retail Solutions Group-scale workflows, or willingness to learn quickly.
• Ability to present to mid-level leadership.
• Humility to revise strong opinions when the data argues back.

Responsibilities

• Tune database queries and schemas for high-throughput Retail Solutions Group workloads.
• Deliver mid-level-quality features within the $109,000 - $161,000 AI Engineer mandate.
• Chase down the Persuasion integration that silently drops Retail Solutions Group events at midnight.
• Decide when to buy MLflow versus build it for Retail Solutions Group's Hayward, CA stack.
• Respond to on-call rotations and participate in incident postmortems.
• Defend Retail Solutions Group uptime through the 2 a.m. Hayward pages nobody volunteers for.
• Keep the technology Pandas service humming through Hayward's holiday traffic surge.

Skills

Database tuning

High-throughput workloads

Independent judgment

CA market awareness

Leadership presentation

Tools

MLflow

Pandas

Job description

This is a mid-level AI Engineer position for the person who automated their own job once and immediately wanted to do it again. This AI Engineer role at Retail Solutions Group rewards initiative with $109,000 - $161,000, real decision-making power, and steady career advancement.

Key Responsibilities

• Tune database queries and schemas for high-throughput Retail Solutions Group workloads
• Deliver mid-level-quality features within the $109,000 - $161,000 AI Engineer mandate
• Chase down the Persuasion integration that silently drops Retail Solutions Group events at midnight
• Decide when to buy MLflow versus build it for Retail Solutions Group's Hayward, CA stack
• Respond to on-call rotations and participate in incident postmortems
• Defend Retail Solutions Group uptime through the 2 a.m. Hayward pages nobody volunteers for
• Keep the technology Pandas service humming through Hayward's holiday traffic surge

What You'll Bring

• Critical thinking skills and sound, independent judgment
• Comfort owning technology decisions in a CA market
• The kind of attention to detail that catches what spell-check misses
• Familiarity with Retail Solutions Group-scale workflows, or the appetite to reach them
• Demonstrated comfort presenting to mid-level leadership
• The humility to revise strong opinions when the data argues back

Equal parts laboratory and workshop, Retail Solutions Group builds tinker-friendly technology products that hold up far beyond the borders of Hayward, CA. We give mid-level hires room to fail small so they can later succeed big on technology work.

The number is $109,000 - $161,000; the rest is mentorship, health coverage, paid growth time, and a contract arrangement that respects your evenings.

This req is fresh on our board and getting attention from the hiring team today.