Associate AI Engineer — Production AI & Full-Stack Growth

Figure Lending; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Employer-paid premiums

HSA, FSA, Dependent Care FSA

401(k) and commuter benefits

Life and disability insurance

11 holidays and PTO

Paid family leave

Education reimbursement

Job summary

Figure Lending in Los Angeles, CA is seeking an Associate AI Engineer to operate and improve chat and voice systems, and grow into a full-stack AI engineer across Python services, APIs, data and evaluation pipelines.

The role offers a base salary of $80,000 to $120,000 with a 25% annual bonus, paid quarterly, plus RSUs. This onsite position requires working in the LA area without visa sponsorship.

Qualifications

• Strong programming fundamentals and Python experience
• Working knowledge of SQL and data analysis
• Break ambiguous problems into testable components
• Comfort reading unfamiliar code and tracing system behavior
• Strong written communication and attention to detail
• Interest in AI behavior, analytics, backend systems, and product workflows
• Habit of validating assumptions and measuring outcomes
• Ability to collaborate with engineers and nontechnical domain experts
• Desire to grow into a full‑stack production AI engineer
• Experience building an API or backend service
• Experience evaluating LLMs, conversational agents, or other probabilistic systems
• Knowledge of experimental design, statistics, causal inference, or applied econometrics
• Experience testing nondeterministic systems
• Familiarity with retrieval‑augmented generation and workflow engines
• Ability to distinguish when deterministic logic is safer than an LLM
• Translate domain or policy requirements into software behavior

Responsibilities

• Improve AI-powered chat and voice services for customer-service and lending workflows
• Build and maintain agent workflows, API-integrated tools, guardrails, retrieval rules, and escalation paths
• Review workflows for logic errors, unsafe behavior, routing conflicts, and unnecessary model context
• Establish disciplined development practices across staging, testing, review, and production-release
• Partner with domain experts to translate requirements into reliable behavior
• Choose approach per problem: workflow logic, deterministic code, retrieval, LLM, or product change
• Build automated tests and simulations for conversational workflows
• Define and measure metrics for containment, escalation, and task completion
• Develop tagging, monitoring, quality-assurance for production conversations
• Build data and evaluation pipelines with Python and SQL; contribute to internal tools
• Learn deployment, monitoring, containerization, and CI/CD practices

Skills

Python

SQL

Testable components

Code comprehension

Strong communication

AI systems

Collaboration

Tools

APIs

Docker

CI/CD

Python services

SQL pipelines

Job description

Figure Lending in Los Angeles, CA is seeking an Associate AI Engineer to operate and improve chat and voice systems, and grow into a full-stack AI engineer across Python services, APIs, data and evaluation pipelines.

The role offers a base salary of $80,000 to $120,000 with a 25% annual bonus, paid quarterly, plus RSUs. This onsite position requires working in the LA area without visa sponsorship.