Remote Applied AI Engineer — Production AI Platforms

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

Job summary

Inviso is partnering with a global software conglomerate to recruit an experienced Backend / Platform Engineer for a remote, direct-hire role.

The Applied AI Engineer will build and operate AI capabilities across an enterprise platform, including agent runtimes, model routing, RAG, tool calling, guardrails, evaluation, monitoring, and cost management. You will ship production-grade AI, moving from prototype to monitored systems and collaborating with product and security teams.

Qualifications

• Shipping software backed by LLMs or ML models to production.
• Design/implement agent runtime, orchestration, model routing, tool/function calling, or AI workflow patterns.
• Strong understanding of RAG, grounding, retrieval quality, prompt design.
• Experience building evaluation harnesses, golden sets, regression checks, quality gates, or measurable AI performance frameworks.
• Ability to treat cost, latency, reliability, and safety as first-class engineering constraints.
• Experience building guardrails and controls for AI systems, including untrusted retrieved content, tool output risk, and failure modes.
• Experience monitoring production AI behavior and improving systems based on evidence.
• Strong software engineering skills and ability to collaborate with backend, platform, product, and security teams.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills for client-facing consulting environments.
• Pragmatic mindset with the ability to prioritize business value and ship useful AI capabilities quickly and responsibly.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate AI capabilities across an enterprise platform.
• Include agent runtimes, model routing, RAG, tool/function calling, guardrails, evaluation, monitoring, and cost management.
• Ensure AI capabilities ship production-grade features with reliability, safety, and cost awareness.

Skills

LLMs production

RAG systems

Agentic workflows

Model routing

Tool calling

Guardrails

Evaluation frameworks

Cost & latency

Production monitoring

Backend collaboration

Client-facing communication

Job description

Inviso is partnering with a global software conglomerate to recruit an experienced Backend / Platform Engineer for a remote, direct-hire role.

The Applied AI Engineer will build and operate AI capabilities across an enterprise platform, including agent runtimes, model routing, RAG, tool calling, guardrails, evaluation, monitoring, and cost management. You will ship production-grade AI, moving from prototype to monitored systems and collaborating with product and security teams.