Remote Senior AI Engineer: Production & Customer Delivery

TachyonShift; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

TachyonShift is seeking a senior engineer to lead engagements that deploy governed AI systems for customers across the United States. You will own the plan, build with real data, and deliver a working solution within weeks.

You will work closely with customers, write the plan and success metrics, and mentor engineers while ensuring integrity and outcomes. Remote across the United States, with senior guidance and measurable results.

Qualifications

• Eight+ years building and running production software (LLM-based systems preferred).
• Strong Python or TypeScript and cloud-architecture judgment.
• Experience integrating CRM, ERP, ticketing, identity, or data warehouses.
• Ability to work directly with customer teams and executives.
• Proven ownership of systems after launch.
• Honest communication about know/unknown costs.

Responsibilities

• Write announcements, success metrics, and questions before first line of code.
• Design and build production AI systems on customer data (retrieval, agents, automation, integrations).
• Choose the right model for each step and keep the system model-neutral for swaps.
• Write evaluation tests and design audit trails for outputs with cost impact.
• Demo working software to the customer weekly and adjust based on feedback.
• Operate what you ship: monitor, incident response, runbooks, monthly review.
• Mentor engineers and set the technical bar on the engagement.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

System ownership

Customer-facing

LLM-based systems

Tools

CRM

ERP

Cloud platforms

APIs

Job description

TachyonShift is seeking a senior engineer to lead engagements that deploy governed AI systems for customers across the United States. You will own the plan, build with real data, and deliver a working solution within weeks.

You will work closely with customers, write the plan and success metrics, and mentor engineers while ensuring integrity and outcomes. Remote across the United States, with senior guidance and measurable results.