Applied AI Engineer: Production-Grade Agent Systems

Idelsoft; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Full health insurance

Free lunch and dinner

Company equipment provided

Job summary

Idelsoft seeks an Applied AI Engineer to own mission-critical agent systems end-to-end in a stealth, seed-stage AI company serving regulated domains. You will design and optimize workflows, reason over structured data, and fine-tune models for production use, working closely with customers and the broader team.

You will move ideas to production rapidly, shaping architecture choices and product direction while ensuring reliability and compliance in real-world deployments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or higher in Computer Science, ML, or equivalent practical experience
• Strong familiarity with LLM architectures and current agent research
• Excellent programming skills with ML libraries — PyTorch, Hugging Face, W&B
• Experience building production ML or AI systems, not just research prototypes
• Solid practical experience with search and information retrieval
• Moves fast from idea to production, with genuine care for customer experience
• Based in or willing to relocate to San Francisco (or exceptional enough to justify remote)

Responsibilities

• Own agent workflows and infrastructure for domain-specific engineering agents
• Reason over complex design data and integrate with engineering tools
• Post-training and fine-tuning models for domain-specific needs
• Collaborate directly with customers to deliver reliable production workflows
• Prototype, validate with real users, and ship frequently
• Influence engineering culture, architecture decisions, and product direction

Skills

LLM architectures

Agent workflows

Production ML systems

Search & IR

Python

PyTorch

Hugging Face

Weights & Biases

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / ML

Tools

PyTorch

Hugging Face

Weights & Biases (W&B)

Job description

Idelsoft seeks an Applied AI Engineer to own mission-critical agent systems end-to-end in a stealth, seed-stage AI company serving regulated domains. You will design and optimize workflows, reason over structured data, and fine-tune models for production use, working closely with customers and the broader team.

You will move ideas to production rapidly, shaping architecture choices and product direction while ensuring reliability and compliance in real-world deployments.