Production AI Engineer for Enterprise AI Systems

AKIVA AI, LLC; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Vision Insurance

PTO

401(k) with company match

Short-Term Disability

Long-Term Disability

Profit Sharing

Job summary

AKIVA AI, LLC seeks an AI engineer to transform research breakthroughs into production AI systems and build scalable applications for enterprise clients. You will develop agent runtimes, RAG pipelines, and custom inference endpoints to deliver robust AI capabilities.

The role requires strong Python and web/API skills, plus hands-on work with model serving frameworks and agent orchestration. Join a veteran-owned innovator delivering high-impact AI solutions.

Qualifications

• 3+ years building production AI/ML applications.
• Strong Python and modern web/API stack experience.
• Hands-on experience with at least one model serving framework (vLLM, TGI, TensorRT-LLM, Triton Inference Server).
• Familiarity with agent frameworks (LangGraph, LlamaIndex, AutoGen) or custom orchestration.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate production AI services: agent runtimes, RAG pipelines, custom inference endpoints
• Optimize latency, throughput, and cost across the model serving stack
• Implement evaluation harnesses, observability, and guardrails for AI systems
• Collaborate closely with research scientists to productionize novel techniques
• Contribute to internal frameworks and reusable agent components

Skills

Python

Web/API stack

Model serving frameworks

Agent frameworks

Education

MS/PhD in CS or related

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

FastAPI

Job description

AKIVA AI, LLC seeks an AI engineer to transform research breakthroughs into production AI systems and build scalable applications for enterprise clients. You will develop agent runtimes, RAG pipelines, and custom inference endpoints to deliver robust AI capabilities.

The role requires strong Python and web/API skills, plus hands-on work with model serving frameworks and agent orchestration. Join a veteran-owned innovator delivering high-impact AI solutions.