AI Engineer - Hybrid, 2 Onsite/Week, US

Altitude Technology Solutions Inc; Dallas (TX); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Sapient seeks an AI Engineer to design, implement and scale agentic AI systems that combine retrieval, reasoning, and secure action execution within MCP protocol. You will productionize LLM frameworks, build robust guardrails for safety and governance, and integrate with observability and runbook systems for automated diagnostics and remediation.

The role focuses on building end-to-end AI tooling, including tool-calling, data pipelines, evaluation, and continuous improvements to meet reliability

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software development in one or more languages; strong hands-on experience with large‑scale Python apps.
• 3+ years designing, architecting, testing, and launching production ML systems, including deployment/serving and monitoring.
• Practical experience with Large Language Models (LLMs): API integration, prompt engineering, fine‑tuning/adaptation, and RAG/agent use.
• Understanding of different LLMs (commercial and open source) and their capabilities.
• Solid grasp of applied statistics, core ML concepts, algorithms, and data structures.
• Strong analytical problem-solving, ownership, and urgency; ability to communicate complex ideas and collaborate across global teams.

Skills

Python

C/C++

Go

Java

ML design

LLMs/RAG

Cloud infra

Job description

Sapient seeks an AI Engineer to design, implement and scale agentic AI systems that combine retrieval, reasoning, and secure action execution within MCP protocol. You will productionize LLM frameworks, build robust guardrails for safety and governance, and integrate with observability and runbook systems for automated diagnostics and remediation.

The role focuses on building end-to-end AI tooling, including tool-calling, data pipelines, evaluation, and continuous improvements to meet reliability