Distinguished AI Engineer

Jobtailor; California (MO); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor seeks a senior AI engineer to design, develop, and deploy enterprise AI solutions spanning traditional ML, generative AI, and agentic AI systems. You will architect scalable AI solutions using LLMs, distributed systems, and event-driven architectures.

You will mentor engineers, build reusable AI services, and collaborate with SMEs, product, engineering, architecture, security, data, and business teams to translate opportunities into scalable AI solutions and guide deployment across

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• Minimum of 15 years of experience in software engineering with distributed systems.
• Experience designing and maintaining software using Python, Java, or similar OO languages.
• Experience APIs, microservices, and event-driven architectures; cloud and DevOps practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy enterprise AI solutions spanning ML, generative AI, and agentic AI.
• Architect scalable AI solutions using LLMs, distributed systems, and event-driven architectures.
• Serve as senior hands-on leader across the AI development lifecycle.
• Build reusable AI services, frameworks, and reference architectures for multiple teams.
• Partner with domain SMEs, product, engineering, and security to translate opportunities.
• Lead decisions across commercial and open-source AI solutions.
• Guide architecture, design, model selection, evaluation, deployment, and ops.
• Mentor junior AI engineers to elevate the organization’s AI capabilities.

Skills

AI engineering

Distributed systems

Python

Java

APIs & microservices

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS/Engineering

Tools

Cloud platforms

Job description

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy enterprise AI solutions spanning traditional machine learning, generative AI, and agentic AI systems.
• Architect and deliver scalable, resilient AI solutions leveraging technologies such as agentic systems, large language models (LLMs), distributed systems, and event-driven architectures.
• Serve as a senior hands‑on contributor, technical leader, and subject matter expert across the AI development lifecycle.
• Build reusable AI services, frameworks, accelerators, and reference architectures leveraged across multiple teams and use cases.
• Partner with business domain SMEs, product, engineering, architecture, security, data, and business teams to translate business opportunities into scalable AI solutions.
• Lead buy, build, and integrate decisions across commercial and open‑source AI solutions.
• Guide implementation teams through architecture, design, model selection, evaluation, deployment, and operationalization of AI solutions.
• Mentor junior AI engineers and elevate the broader organization's AI engineering capabilities.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum of 15 years of experience in software engineering.
• Experience leading, designing, implementing, and operating distributed systems and large-scale architectures.
• Experience designing, developing, and maintaining software solutions using Python, Java, or comparable object-oriented programming languages.
• Experience designing and implementing APIs, microservices, and event-driven architectures.
• Applying cloud, CI/CD, and DevOps practices.