Remote GenAI Applications Engineer — Production-Grade AI & API

Purple Squirrel Enterprises; Washington (District of Columbia); Remote; USD 135,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly

401(k)

Flexible Time Off (FTO)

Health/Dental/Vision

Job summary

Purple Squirrel Enterprises is partnering with a well‑established SaaS analytics company to identify and hire a Generative AI Application Engineer. This remote-friendly role demands hands-on software engineering with deep GenAI experience, focusing on API-based services, data layers, and production AI features.

You will design, build, and ship features against LLM APIs, collaborate with product and data teams, and ensure robust testing, monitoring, and security in a regulated financial data

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience, including API-based applications in production.
• At least 4 years of Python development experience.
• At least 2 years of hands-on generative AI development at the LLM API level.
• Two non-trivial production generative AI applications with described contributions and references.
• Strong SQL skills and working knowledge of RDBMS performance and RBAC.
• Experience deploying across multiple resource types in a hyperscaler environment; Microsoft Azure preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and ship production generative AI features against LLM APIs, including prompts, tool calling, and context management.
• Develop and maintain evaluation/regression harnesses for AI features.
• Integrate AI components with existing product services and data models.
• Operate and deploy components in Azure-based environments and manage data security for financial data.
• Collaborate with product management and data engineering to translate requirements into shipped features.
• Participate in code reviews and communicate progress clearly to stakeholders.

Skills

Python development

Generative AI

SQL

API development

Azure

Production deployments

Tools

Hugging Face

LLM APIs

Job description

Purple Squirrel Enterprises is partnering with a well‑established SaaS analytics company to identify and hire a Generative AI Application Engineer. This remote-friendly role demands hands-on software engineering with deep GenAI experience, focusing on API-based services, data layers, and production AI features.

You will design, build, and ship features against LLM APIs, collaborate with product and data teams, and ensure robust testing, monitoring, and security in a regulated financial data