Hands-on AI Engineer: Build Production-Grade AI Agents

DeepRec.ai; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

DeepRec.ai is seeking a hands-on AI Engineer to own the build and deployment of internal AI capabilities for a private equity-backed firm in Boston. This is a builder role, not strategy or management, reporting directly to senior leadership and partnering with portfolio teams to automate repetitive work.

You will design, develop and deploy production-grade AI agents, integrate LLMs with internal systems, and implement robust retrieval/knowledge systems (RAG) to improve research, data collection,

Qualifications

• Strong Python experience and production-grade software skills.
• Experience building AI-powered production apps using LLMs.
• Experience building AI agents and multi-step workflows.
• Knowledge of RAG, embeddings, and semantic search.
• Cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure/GCP) and Docker experience.
• Builder mentality with ability to ship prototypes.
• Comfort operating with autonomy and ambiguity.
• Strong communication to explain technical concepts to leaders.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with senior leadership on bottlenecks and repetitive processes.
• Translate business problems into clearly defined technical solutions.
• Design, build and deploy production-grade AI agents and applications.
• Build agentic workflows involving reasoning, retrieval, data processing and interaction with internal systems.
• Integrate LLMs with existing applications, documents, databases and third-party platforms.
• Build retrieval/knowledge systems (RAG) for internal company information.
• Implement evaluation, monitoring and observability for AI systems in production.
• Design human-in-the-loop processes where full automation isn't appropriate.
• Establish controls around data access, permissions and sensitive information.
• Measure impact - time saved, adoption, productivity gains.

Skills

Python

Production AI

AI agents

RAG / embeddings

Cloud infra

Docker

Autonomy

Communication

Tools

LangGraph

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Job description

DeepRec.ai is seeking a hands-on AI Engineer to own the build and deployment of internal AI capabilities for a private equity-backed firm in Boston. This is a builder role, not strategy or management, reporting directly to senior leadership and partnering with portfolio teams to automate repetitive work.

You will design, develop and deploy production-grade AI agents, integrate LLMs with internal systems, and implement robust retrieval/knowledge systems (RAG) to improve research, data collection,