Remote AI Engineer — Build Production LLM Agents

Fluent, LLC; New York (NY); Remote; USD 130,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with employer match

Pre-tax savings plans and transit/park

Job summary

Fluent, LLC is hiring its first AI Engineer to build production-grade LLM-powered agents and automated workflows in a fully remote, US-wide role. You will own data pipelines in a Databricks lakehouse, integrate with ad-tech systems, and collaborate with Data Science and Solution Architecture to deliver measurable impact.

The role emphasizes ownership, strong Python/SQL skills, and experience with Claude/GitHub Copilot.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software or data engineering experience.
• Built and shipped at least one LLM-powered application or agent used by real users.
• Hands-on Databricks or equivalent lakehouse experience.
• Experience integrating SaaS and internal systems via REST APIs, webhooks, OAuth.
• Tests, instrumentation, and cost-awareness in workflows.
• Able to communicate with non-developers and run sessions with a business team.
• Experience using AI coding assistants (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot).
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Ship production agents and automated workflows from backlog through handoff.
• Build data foundation in Databricks (Unity Catalog, Lakeflow) and integrate sources.
• Collaborate with Data Science to measure quality and add evaluation metrics.
• Integrate Fluent systems via APIs, webhooks, MCP servers, and orchestrations.
• Expose platform data and actions as APIs for business users.
• Create reusable components and playbooks for Fluent’s teams.
• Ensure consumer data handling aligns with privacy and security standards.
• Document learnings in Confluence and share in sessions.

Skills

Python

SQL

LLM-powered app

Databricks

REST APIs

Testing & instrumentation

Communication

AI coding assistants

Bachelor's degree

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Databricks

GitHub Actions

Claude Code

Job description

Fluent, LLC is hiring its first AI Engineer to build production-grade LLM-powered agents and automated workflows in a fully remote, US-wide role. You will own data pipelines in a Databricks lakehouse, integrate with ad-tech systems, and collaborate with Data Science and Solution Architecture to deliver measurable impact.

The role emphasizes ownership, strong Python/SQL skills, and experience with Claude/GitHub Copilot.