AI Engineer for Regulatory Compliance Platform

Opportunity Engine, Inc.; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Opportunity Engine, Inc. seeks an AI Engineer to build the AI, ML, and agentic systems behind a regulatory-tech product that analyzes laws and turns them into actionable guidance. You will own the full lifecycle from data and experimentation to evaluation, deployment, and real-world performance, working with product and engineering to ship features.

Strong candidates enjoy solving hard problems, building robust systems, and turning promising models into practical products in a fast-paced startup.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience training, tuning, and shipping AI/ML models in production.
• Experience owning the ML lifecycle, including data collection, labeling, training, deployment, and monitoring.
• Strong evaluation skills and the ability to diagnose model failures in real-world conditions.
• A commitment to robust engineering, observability, tooling, and efficient development workflows.
• Comfort with ambiguity, changing requirements, pragmatic tradeoffs, and taking ownership in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to translate business needs into ML solutions and explain model behavior to non-technical stakeholders.
• Azure ML or similar cloud platform experience is a plus; NLP, document understanding, or classification experience is a bonus.

Responsibilities

• Build, train, evaluate, and deploy AI/ML and agentic systems across the full lifecycle.
• Develop data pipelines, curate representative datasets, and improve models through rapid experimentation.
• Design rigorous evaluations and use production feedback to improve real-world performance.
• Deploy reliable, low-latency AI workloads in Azure, including monitoring, versioning, and retraining pipelines.
• Partner with product and engineering to deliver user-facing AI features and contribute to backend development.

Skills

AI/ML model training

ML lifecycle ownership

Model evaluation

Observability & tooling

Ambiguity tolerance

Business-to-ML translation

Tools

Azure ML

Cloud platforms

Job description

Opportunity Engine, Inc. seeks an AI Engineer to build the AI, ML, and agentic systems behind a regulatory-tech product that analyzes laws and turns them into actionable guidance. You will own the full lifecycle from data and experimentation to evaluation, deployment, and real-world performance, working with product and engineering to ship features.

Strong candidates enjoy solving hard problems, building robust systems, and turning promising models into practical products in a fast-paced startup.