Hybrid AI Engineer — Production ML/LLMs

Blue Acorn iCi; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Acorn iCi is seeking an AI Engineer to design and ship AI-powered solutions that solve real business problems for internal teams and enterprise customers. You will own solutions end to end, from problem framing with product and business owners, to rapid prototyping, to hardening for production.

The role is hybrid with onsite presence 3 days a week in San Jose, CA. You will build and deploy production-grade AI systems, collaborate with product managers and engineers, and contribute reusable

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• 2+ years shipping AI or ML-powered solutions in production.
• Comfort with React for building AI-driven user experiences.
• Practical experience with LLM APIs such as Anthropic, OpenAI, or equivalent.
• Working knowledge of prompt engineering, tool use, structured outputs, and agent patterns.
• Experience with RAG architectures, vector databases, and retrieval quality evaluation.
• Solid grasp of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Adobe I/O Runtime.
• Familiarity with modern DevOps practices including CI/CD, logging, and monitoring.
• Clear written and verbal communication with technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Build production-grade AI solutions using LLMs, agents, RAG pipelines, and orchestration frameworks.
• Translate ambiguous business needs into clear technical designs and working software.
• Prototype quickly, then harden for scale, observability, and cost efficiency.
• Integrate AI solutions with enterprise systems including Adobe Experience Platform, Workfront, Adobe Journey Optimizer (AJO), and internal data platforms.

Skills

Software engineering

AI in production

React

LLM APIs

Prompt engineering

RAG architectures

Cloud platforms

DevOps

Communication

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

Adobe I/O Runtime

LangGraph

CrewAI

Job description

Blue Acorn iCi is seeking an AI Engineer to design and ship AI-powered solutions that solve real business problems for internal teams and enterprise customers. You will own solutions end to end, from problem framing with product and business owners, to rapid prototyping, to hardening for production.

The role is hybrid with onsite presence 3 days a week in San Jose, CA. You will build and deploy production-grade AI systems, collaborate with product managers and engineers, and contribute reusable