Applied AI Engineer: Production ML & Retrieval Systems

Careers InitiateFirst; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Careers InitiateFirst is seeking a seasoned software engineer with 5–8 years of hands-on experience to own production services and drive reliability improvements. Strong Python skills and TypeScript familiarity for customer-facing tools are required, with a demonstrated ability to reason about retrieval and context engineering in real-world deployments.

The ideal candidate will document architecture, communicate status, and make informed trade-offs across complex systems, collaborating with

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong Python and at least one additional language; TypeScript preferred for customer-facing apps.
• Experience owning production services, incident response and reliability improvements.
• Knowledge of retrieval and context engineering; offline and production evaluations as release gates.

Responsibilities

• Own production services and respond to incidents with a focus on reliability improvements.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

Production ownership

Incident response

Reliability

Context engineering

Retrieval engineering

Evaluation discipline

Framework judgment

Technical communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Careers InitiateFirst is seeking a seasoned software engineer with 5–8 years of hands-on experience to own production services and drive reliability improvements. Strong Python skills and TypeScript familiarity for customer-facing tools are required, with a demonstrated ability to reason about retrieval and context engineering in real-world deployments.

The ideal candidate will document architecture, communicate status, and make informed trade-offs across complex systems, collaborating with