Applied AI Engineer - Production AI for Enterprise

Aimlroles; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k matching

Equity

Healthcare

FSA

Disability insurance

Fertility benefits

Paid vacation

Parental leave

Fitness stipend

Wellness stipend

Commuter benefits

Unlimited tokens

Job summary

WorkOS is growing its Applied AI team to dramatically increase productivity across Engineering, Sales, Support, and Operations. As an Applied AI Engineer, you’ll design and ship production AI systems that customers rely on and build internal tools that become part of daily work across the company.

You’ll work on a small, high-ownership team, tackling problems with measurable impact and delivering from idea to production in days or weeks. This is a 0→1 role with company-wide visibility.

Qualifications

• You’ve shipped AI-powered systems from idea to production and iterated with real users.
• Strong engineering fundamentals; capable of owning services, data flows, and integrations end-to-end.
• Experience building with LLM APIs.
• Bias toward action and focus on removing bottlenecks, enabling new workflows.
• Comfort with ambiguity and fast-changing tools/patterns.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship customer-facing AI products and internal tools that scale across the company.
• Build stable, observable automation and AI-driven workflows across apps and data sources.
• Develop a unified bot framework and infrastructure enabling company-wide AI deployments.
• Stay current with models, embeddings, retrieval, and tool-calling to integrate docs, Slack, GitHub, CRM, and analytics.
• Replace manual multi-step processes with orchestrated AI-driven flows spanning multiple systems.
• Experiment with new models and tooling to define reusable patterns and libraries.

Skills

LLM APIs

End-to-end ownership

Observability

Ambiguity tolerance

Fast iteration

Tools

Python

LLM tooling

API integrations

Job description

WorkOS is growing its Applied AI team to dramatically increase productivity across Engineering, Sales, Support, and Operations. As an Applied AI Engineer, you’ll design and ship production AI systems that customers rely on and build internal tools that become part of daily work across the company.

You’ll work on a small, high-ownership team, tackling problems with measurable impact and delivering from idea to production in days or weeks. This is a 0→1 role with company-wide visibility.