Production AI Engineer – Vision, Drones & 3D Data

Parsons; Colorado; On-site; USD 75,000 - 131,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Paid time off

Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)

401(k)

Life insurance

Flexible work schedules

Holidays

Job summary

Parsons is seeking an Applied AI Engineer in Westminster, CO to build production-grade AI applications that transform real-world data into actionable information. You will work across AI models, computer vision, robotics, geospatial systems, and software engineering to develop scalable Python services and APIs.

You will prototype, evaluate, and productionize new techniques, collaborating with engineers and domain experts to turn challenges into usable software for drones, 3D models, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Robotics, Data Science, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical work experience.
• 2+ years of experience building production-grade software using Python.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, including modular design, testing, debugging, and maintainable code.
• Experience developing and integrating machine-learning or computer-vision models into real applications.
• Experience with PyTorch or a comparable ML framework.
• Experience building APIs and backend services; FastAPI or similar Python frameworks preferred.
• Experience working with SQL databases and structured data.
• Familiarity with modern AI techniques such as computer vision foundation models, embeddings, LLMs, or VLMs.
• Proficiency with Git/source control, Linux development environments, and CI/CD workflows.
• Ability to independently prototype, evaluate, and productionize new technical approaches.

Responsibilities

• Design and build AI-enabled applications from prototype through production.
• Develop computer vision and multimodal AI workflows for imagery, video, drone data, geospatial data, and 3D environments.
• Apply modern techniques including segmentation, feature extraction, self-supervised learning, foundation models, LLMs, and VLMs.
• Develop AI workflows supporting drone-based inspection, mapping, perception, and emerging autonomous capabilities.
• Develop scalable Python services and APIs using frameworks such as FastAPI.
• Build data pipelines integrating AI inference, SQL databases, APIs, sensor-derived data, and external data sources.
• Optimize and deploy AI models using PyTorch, ONNX, and related inference tooling.
• Collaborate with engineers and domain experts to turn loosely defined technical problems into usable software.
• Contribute to software architecture, testing, source control, automated deployment, and production reliability.
• Rapidly evaluate emerging AI techniques and determine where they provide practical value.

Skills

Python

ML integration

FastAPI

Git

Linux

SQL databases

PyTorch

API design

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Robotics, Data Science, or related

Tools

PyTorch

ONNX

Docker

FastAPI

Git

Linux

Job description

Parsons is seeking an Applied AI Engineer in Westminster, CO to build production-grade AI applications that transform real-world data into actionable information. You will work across AI models, computer vision, robotics, geospatial systems, and software engineering to develop scalable Python services and APIs.

You will prototype, evaluate, and productionize new techniques, collaborating with engineers and domain experts to turn challenges into usable software for drones, 3D models, and