Remote AI Engineer: Production Agents & RAG

altaml; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first

Mentorship

Employee stock ownership

Job summary

altaml is building a platform-driven AI solution with agents that plan, decide, use tools, and execute multi-step tasks. You will own features end-to-end from design to production, contributing to agent orchestration, RAG, and document ingestion.

The role requires 3+ years in software or data science, with hands-on experience in AI apps and modern backends. Remote-first environment, mentorship, stock options, and benefits are offered.

Qualifications

• At least 3 years in software engineering or data science, including 1 year building AI, ML, or LLM applications.
• Practical experience with RAG, embeddings, vector search, or document ingestion, ideally in production.
• Strong Python skills and working experience in TypeScript, C#/.NET, or another modern backend language.
• Working knowledge of API design, microservices, and cloud infrastructure.
• Clear communication and a collaborative approach to planning, feedback, and blockers.

Responsibilities

• Develop production agents, including orchestration, memory, tool integrations, safeguards, and human review for consequential actions.
• Build and maintain RAG, language model, and document ingestion components, including parsing, chunking, enrichment, and indexing.
• Diagnose answer and agent failures across tools, retrieval, and source documents.
• Create evaluation data and automated checks to track task success, tool accuracy, cost, latency, and regressions.
• Prototype models and frameworks, and contribute to design, code review, documentation, and delivery planning.
• Coordinate with product, data, design, and QA partners to integrate AI features into the product.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

C#/.NET

APIs & microservices

RAG

Embeddings

Vector search

Document ingestion

Cloud infrastructure

Communication

Job description

altaml is building a platform-driven AI solution with agents that plan, decide, use tools, and execute multi-step tasks. You will own features end-to-end from design to production, contributing to agent orchestration, RAG, and document ingestion.

The role requires 3+ years in software or data science, with hands-on experience in AI apps and modern backends. Remote-first environment, mentorship, stock options, and benefits are offered.