Mid-Level AI Engineer: Impact, Mentorship & Growth in CA

Energy Innovation Corp; Hayward (CA); On-site; USD 109,000 - 161,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Mentorship

Paid growth time

Evening-friendly contract

Job summary

Retail Solutions Group in Hayward, CA is seeking a mid-level AI Engineer to optimize high-throughput workloads and own core technology decisions. You will tune queries, deliver mid-level features, and manage incident postmortems while ensuring uptime during peak traffic.

The role emphasizes initiative, mentorship, and career growth within a supportive team. On-call rotations and evening-friendly contracts are part of the package.

Qualifications

• Critical thinking and independent judgment.
• Comfort owning technology decisions in a CA market.
• Attention to detail that catches what spell-check misses.
• Familiarity with Retail Solutions Group-scale workflows, or willingness to learn quickly.
• Ability to present to mid-level leadership.
• Humility to revise strong opinions when the data argues back.

Responsibilities

• Tune database queries and schemas for high-throughput Retail Solutions Group workloads.
• Deliver mid-level-quality features within the $109,000 - $161,000 AI Engineer mandate.
• Chase down the Persuasion integration that silently drops Retail Solutions Group events at midnight.
• Decide when to buy MLflow versus build it for Retail Solutions Group's Hayward, CA stack.
• Respond to on-call rotations and participate in incident postmortems.
• Defend Retail Solutions Group uptime through the 2 a.m. Hayward pages nobody volunteers for.
• Keep the technology Pandas service humming through Hayward's holiday traffic surge.

Skills

Database tuning

High-throughput workloads

Independent judgment

CA market awareness

Leadership presentation

Tools

MLflow

Pandas

Job description

Retail Solutions Group in Hayward, CA is seeking a mid-level AI Engineer to optimize high-throughput workloads and own core technology decisions. You will tune queries, deliver mid-level features, and manage incident postmortems while ensuring uptime during peak traffic.

The role emphasizes initiative, mentorship, and career growth within a supportive team. On-call rotations and evening-friendly contracts are part of the package.