AI / ML Engineer

Riivet; Washington (Washington County); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meaningful equity

Health, dental, and vision coverage

Remote work with occasional team offsites

Job summary

Riivet in Washington County is looking for a skilled AI Engineer to build and own systems that power AI negotiations, estimating, and reporting. You will work with real data to create impactful AI features.

The ideal candidate has over 3 years of experience in production AI systems and is proficient in TypeScript or Python. The role offers meaningful equity and health coverage, plus the flexibility of remote work with team offsites.

Qualifications

• 3+ years building AI or ML systems in production.
• Strong grasp of modern LLM tooling including retrieval and evaluation.
• Comfortable writing TypeScript or Python end to end.

Responsibilities

• Design prompt, retrieval, and evaluation pipelines for production AI features.
• Build agents that take actions in the product, not just generate text.
• Instrument every AI call with cost, latency, and quality metrics.

Skills

AI or ML systems in production

Modern LLM tooling

TypeScript or Python

AI UX

Job description

Build the AI layer across Riivet: negotiations, estimating, analytics, and more. You care about grounded output and production reliability, not demo magic.

About the role

AI is not a side feature at Riivet, it is a core part of the product. You will build and own the systems that power AI negotiations with adjusters, AI estimating from LiDAR scans, AI-driven reporting, and the internal training assistant. You will work with real restoration data and real business outcomes.

What you'll do

• Design prompt, retrieval, and evaluation pipelines for production AI features
• Build agents that take actions in the product, not just generate text
• Instrument every AI call with cost, latency, and quality metrics
• Work with the product team to define acceptance criteria that match what contractors actually need
• Own model choice and routing across providers

What we're looking for

• 3+ years building AI or ML systems in production
• Strong grasp of modern LLM tooling: retrieval, evaluation, structured output, function calling
• Comfortable writing TypeScript or Python end to end
• Track record of shipping AI features that survived real users
• Opinionated about what good AI UX looks like

Nice to have

• Experience with restoration, insurance claims, or regulated domains
• Familiarity with OpenRouter, Anthropic, OpenAI APIs and their tradeoffs
• Background in evaluations, synthetic data, or fine-tuning pipelines

What we offer

• Meaningful equity
• Health, dental, and vision coverage
• Remote work with occasional team offsites